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Illinois has a variety of protected areas, including over 123 state-protected areas, dozens of federally protected areas, hundreds of county-level and municipal park areas. Illinois also contains sites designated as internationally important protected areas.
Protected areas of Union County, Illinois (1 C, 12 P) V. Protected areas of Vermilion County, Illinois (9 P) W. Protected areas of Wabash County, Illinois (1 P)
This category includes articles on protected areas within the U.S. state of Illinois. This includes federal, state, local and privately controlled/owned areas. This includes federal, state, local and privately controlled/owned areas.
Illinois Nature Preserve sign at Nachusa Grasslands. The Illinois Nature Preserves Commission (INPC) is a state organization, established by the Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act, to identify, protect, steward, and defend high quality natural areas in the state of Illinois. [1] [2] Its mission is: [1]
Mitchell's Grove Nature Preserve is a 184 acres (74 ha) nature preserve and State Natural Area [2] located in LaSalle County, Illinois, situated between Tomahawk Creek and the Little Vermillion River north of their confluence. It is composed of diverse terrain with over 300 plant species present. [3]
Later acquisitions were added to the property and have increased the area which was known as Wolf Lake Conservation Area. In 1965, the Illinois General Assembly named the area after William W. Powers. [1] Powers had been a Chicago alderman on the Chicago City Council and Illinois General Assembly legislator in the 1920s, and used the site for ...
Devils Island Wildlife Management Area is managed as public access for hunting. It is managed, coterminously with the Union County State Fish and Wildlife Area, by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources from a full-time office in nearby Jonesboro. [1] The park is made up of bottomland, hardwood forest lands, and agricultural fields.
0.75 miles (1.21 km) south of County Road 795N at the Illinois River 39°56′27″N 90°32′02″W / 39.940833°N 90.533889°W / 39.940833; -90.533889 ( La Grange Lock and Dam Historic