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Wildlife Prairie Park, also known as the Hazel & Bill Rutherford Wildlife Prairie Park, is located in Peoria County, Illinois, approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of downtown Peoria in central Illinois. Opened in the 1970s, it has most recently been operated as a not-for-profit corporation since 2013.
The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County is a governmental agency headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois, United States.Its mission is to acquire and hold lands containing forests, prairies, wetlands, and associated plant communities or lands capable of being restored to such natural conditions for the purpose of protecting and preserving the flora, fauna and scenic beauty for the education ...
Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area is a 2,537-acre (1,027 ha) state park in Illinois. More than half of the state park is a tallgrass prairie maintained as an Illinois Nature Preserve . It is located in Grundy County near the town of Morris approximately 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Chicago .
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Today, according to the National Association of Conservation Districts, there are 3,000 conservation districts in the United States, 74 of which are in Colorado, each acting as a liaison between ...
Jubilee College State Park is situated in the Illinoisan drift-plain. It has many near-level ridgetops, floodplains, and steep slope ravines, as well as a large restored prairie. Bedrock exposures include shale, sandstone, limestone, and coal. [16] [2] Jubilee Creek is a tributary to Kickapoo Creek and runs through the park from northwest to ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acquired this land in 1990. [4] The Fish and Wildlife Service has acquired about 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) more of the allocated 11,865 acres (4,802 ha). Although the Neal Smith refuge includes a patchwork of small and seriously degraded native prairies, most of the refuge is the result of prairie restoration or ...