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State protected areas[edit] Illinois state-owned protected areas include state parks, state forests, state recreation areas, state fish and wildlife areas, state natural areas, and one state trail. These areas are all administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. In addition, dozens of state historic sites are administered by ...
Category. : Protected areas of Illinois. This category includes articles on protected areas within the U.S. state of Illinois. This includes federal, state, local and privately controlled/owned areas. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Protected areas of Illinois.
Protected areas of Whiteside County, Illinois (7 P) Protected areas of Will County, Illinois (18 P) Protected areas of Williamson County, Illinois (8 P) Protected areas of Winnebago County, Illinois (7 P) Protected areas of Woodford County, Illinois (1 P) Categories: Protected areas of Illinois.
Illinois Department of Natural Resources. William W. Powers State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources on 580 acres (230 ha) in the Hegewisch community area of the City of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. [1] The area includes 419 acres (170 ha) of water in Wolf ...
Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The Iroquois County State Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park that occupies 2,480 acres (1,004 ha) in northeastern Iroquois County, near the border with Indiana. The nearest municipality is Beaverville, Illinois, and the nearest exit on a limited-access highway is Exit 302 on Interstate 57 ...
Governing body. U.S. Forest Service. The Lusk Creek Wilderness is a 6,293-acre (25.47 km 2) parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is located within the Shawnee National Forest in Pope County, Illinois. The nearest town of any size is Eddyville, Illinois. [1] It includes the Lusk Creek Canyon National Natural Landmark.
The protected areas of the United States are managed by an array of different federal, state, tribal and local level authorities and receive widely varying levels of protection. Some areas are managed as wilderness, while others are operated with acceptable commercial exploitation. As of 2022, the 42,826 protected areas covered 1,235,486 km 2 ...
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]