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Map of the U.S. state of Illinois showing the location of Sam Parr State Fish and ... Sam Parr State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 1,180 ...
Kent Fuller Air Station Prairie/Tyner Center: Glenview: Cook: Chicago area: website, operated by the Glenview Park District, 32-acre remnant of a tall-grass prairie, seasonal educational programs about the prairie, the environment and "green" programs Kildeer Nature Center: Kildeer: Lake: Chicago area: website, 5 acres of open space, operated ...
The Lewis and Clark State Historic Site opened in 2002 and is owned and operated by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Division of Historic Preservation (formerly Illinois Historic Preservation Agency).
The Two Rivers National Wildlife Refuge is located on the Illinois River and the Mississippi River in parts of Calhoun, Jersey, and Greene counties in Illinois, and St. Charles County, Missouri. [1] It is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Mark Twain National Wildlife Refuge Complex. [2]
The Great River National Wildlife Refuge protects approximately 11,600 acres (47 km 2) along 120 miles (190 km) of the Mississippi River, stretching north of St. Louis, Missouri. Three separate units are located in the floodplain, on both the Illinois and Missouri sides of the river.
The pre-European settlement vegetation map of Midewin shows most of the site was prairie prior to the arrival of European settlers. [3] The northwestern corner of the site along Jackson Creek was forest. Another small, forested area existed in the extreme southwest corner of Midewin along the Kankakee River and Prairie Creek.
The Gensburg-Markham Prairie, also known as Markham Prairie, is a 105.6-acre (427,000 m 2) high-quality tallgrass prairie located in Markham in the Chicago metropolitan area. It is part of the larger Indian Boundary Prairies managed by Northeastern Illinois University and The Nature Conservancy .
An 18.6-acre (7.5 ha) parcel within the largely privately owned grove was dedicated by the state of Illinois in 1985 as the Funk's Grove Nature Preserve. [2]Due to fire suppression, the makeup of tree life in Funk's Grove is changing from historic times, with the original oaks not reproducing themselves naturally.