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The Conservation Foundation is a non-governmental, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to preserve open space and natural lands, protect rivers and watersheds, and promote stewardship of the environment. [1] It serves northern Illinois counties of DuPage, Kane, Kendall and Will. [2]
Environmental and conservation organizations in the United States have been formed to help protect the environment, habitats, flora, and fauna on federally owned land, on private land, within coastal limits, in-state conservation areas, in-state parks and in locally governed municipalities.
The Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation was created as a charitable organization in 1993 to protect open spaces in Jo Daviess County, Illinois. [2] The foundation currently protects 6 areas and participates in protection of a seventh. The area protected by the foundation includes the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois and stretches of the ...
Buffett currently resides in Decatur, Illinois, from where he oversees a 1,500-acre (6.1 km 2) family farm in Pana, Illinois, and three foundation-operated research farms, including over 1,500 acres in Arizona, and 9,200 acres in South Africa. [1] [5] He is an advocate of no-till conservation agriculture. [3]
The Conservation Foundation may refer to: Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) African Conservation Foundation; Conservation Foundation, UK; Conservation Foundation (New York), founded 1948, merged into the World Wide Fund for Nature in 1990; The Conservation Foundation (Illinois), formerly the Forest Foundation of DuPage County
The Illinois Land Conservation Act (Public Law 104-106) created the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, designated the transfer of 19,165 acres (7,756 ha) of land in Illinois from the U.S. Army to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The Illinois Land Conservation Act mandates that Midewin be managed to meet four primary objectives:
The Illinois List of Endangered and Threatened Species is reviewed about every five years by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board (ESPB). [1] To date it has evaluated only plants and animals of the US state of Illinois, not fungi, algae, or other forms of life; species that occur in Illinois which are listed as endangered or threatened by the U.S. federal government under the ...
40 acres, operated by the Illinois Audubon Society Andresen Nature Center: Fulton: Whiteside: Northwest: information, operated by volunteers, open for city events and education programs, features displays of local wildlife, insects, and flora found along the local watershed of the upper Mississippi River Anita Purves Nature Center: Urbana ...