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American Bottom Partnership
Counties: Macoupin, Montgomery, Jersey, Madison, St. Clair, Monroe, and
Randolph Contact: Ed Weilbacher, 618/566-4451
Southwestern Illinois Resource Conservation & Development,
$31,700.00.
Southwestern Illinois Resource Plan Implementation.
This project will develop a practical implementation plan that communities
can utilize to assist in working with information developed in the Land Use
Evaluation and Impact Assessment Model and the Southwestern Illinois
Resource Plan. The focus will be on how digital data can be utilized to
protect natural, cultural and agricultural resources.
Southwestern Illinois Resource Conservation & Development,
$22,400.00.
Southwestern Illinois Exotics Brochure. Southwestern Illinois
will direct a multi-organizational effort to develop an exotics species
brochure specifically tailored for Southwestern Illinois. The brochure will
be mailed to more than 15,000 landowners, identifying key exotic species and
describing common methods of eradication, in an effort to better manage
private property.
Southwestern Illinois RC&D, $21,525.00.
Middle Mississippi River Partnership-Vision Document Phase II. This
project will assist the Middle Mississippi River Partnership in the
implementation phase of its Vision Document, assisting the multi-partnership
group in future restoration and public outreach activities.
Trailnet, $7,000.00.
Eagle Days at the Old Chain of
Rocks Bridge.
Trailnet will conduct an educational/outreach seminar at the Old Chain of
Rocks Bridge highlighting the American Bald Eagle.
Big Rivers Partnership
Counties: Calhoun, Greene, and Jersey Contact: Alley
Ringhausen, 618/467-2265
Great Rivers Land Trust, $24,000.00.
Boy Scout Lake Project.
Great Rivers Land Trust will develop and implement a plan to create a
wetland area in association with the restored Boy Scout Lake in Madison
County, Illinois. The project will create sediment control, stormwater
retention, enhanced habitat for flora and fauna and recreational and
educational experiences for the entire community.
Great Rivers Land Trust, $31,450.00.
Little Piasa Pool and Riffle
Project. Great
Rivers Land Trust will build riffle pools on one of six branches of the
Piasa Creek. Benefits include reduction of streambank erosion, enhanced fish
and wildlife habitat and improved water quality.
Cache River Partnership
Counties: Union, Johnson, Alexander, Pulaski, Pope, and Massac
Contact: Don Hankla, 618/833-5343
Union County Soil & Water Conservation District,
$124,395.00.
Cache River Critical Area Land Treatment.
This project will provide cost share to landowners for restoration work on
land that has been identified as a critical area of the Cache River.
Union County Soil & Water Conservation District,
$124,395.00.
Ecosystem Based Best Management Practices to Reduce Sediment
Transfer in the Cache Watershed.
Union County Soil & Water Conservation District will contact landowners
within the Cache River Watershed, to identify and prioritize erosion
problems. Once identified they will design ecosystem based best management
practices to fix the problems. The district will offer a cost share of 75%
to landowners to install the practices.
Carlyle Lake Partnership
Counties: Christian, Montgomery, Shelby, Fayette, Effingham, Bond, Clinton,
and Marion Contact: John Phillips, 618/283-1095,
ext. 3
Fayette County Soil & Water Conservation District,
$12,365.76.
Carlyle Lake Watershed Newsletter.
This project will allow the Fayette County Soil & Water Conservation
District to continue publishing the Carlyle Lake Newsletter three times a
year for two years, which reaches nearly 6,000 watershed land owners and
operators.
Chicago Wilderness Partnership
Counties: McHenry, Du Page, Cook, Will, and Lake
Contact:
John Rogner, 847/381-2253
Chicago Botanic Garden, $43,419.00.
Plants of Concern (POC): A
Volunteer Based, Regional, Standardized Rare Plant Monitoring.
POC staff will train volunteers to monitor listed and rare plants using
standardized protocols. In its 6th year, POC will expand the volunteer base,
increase monitoring and analyze long-term data to track regional trends.
McHenry County Conservation District, $35,032.00.
Chicago Wilderness
Mighty Acorns Program Partnership: Preserving the Partnership.
This project will sustain and support the partnership's members by providing
professional development and improving curricular materials and camp tuition
assistance to at-risk students. The partners will continue to provide
quality education on biodiversity and stewardship to elementary school
students in seven collar counties of Chicago.
Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC),
$44,138.81.
Lake Biodiversity and Protection Plan Development Pilot Project.
This project will complete three lake-specific biodiversity protection and
recovery plans, one each for an exceptional, important, and restorable lake.
Lake County will be the pilot project area. NIPC and Lake County Health
Department-Lakes Management Unit will identify, update and centralize
existing data from various sources as well as develop a database and prepare
the plans.
Driftless Area Partnership
Counties: Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Carroll, and Whiteside
Contact: Daniel Wegner, 815/777-0755
The Prairie Enthusiasts, $12,400.00.
Driftless Area Rare Plant Nursery.
The Prairie Enthusiasts will establish a rare plant nursery to supply seed
for restoration projects. Rare, difficult or otherwise unavailable species
will be selected. A total of 5,000 plugs, produced from local genotype seed,
will be planted within existing Prairie Enthusiasts restoration areas.
Galena Territory Association, $53,307.86.
Wetland Rehabilitation and
Prairie Restoration.
The Galena Territory Association will restore a declining wetland and
reconstruct a nine-acre prairie on property that is connected to woods that
are to be kept native forever. A secondary purpose of the project is to
encourage others to learn more about native plants and use them in
restorations on their own property by planting a demonstration prairie
garden.
Du Page River Coalition Partnership
Counties: Cook, Du Page, Kane, Kendall, and Will Contact:
Jim Kleinwachter, 630/428-4500, ext. 15
Village of Carol Stream, $11,767.00.
Stream Bank and Shoreline
Education Program.
This project consists of providing educational brochures, student training
and informational signs along shorelines and streambanks that were
rehabilitated using wetland plants and native prairie buffers. The goal is
to raise awareness as well as to educate the public on how they can protect
these vital areas.
Forest Preserve District of Du Page County, $200,000.00.
Lyman Woods
Stream Corridor and Riparian Habitat Restoration.
The Forest Preserve District of Du Page County in partnership with the
Downers Grove Park District will restore a 37-acre area in Lyman Woods
Forest Preserve. This restoration includes selective clearing and replanting
of woodland, riparian, oak and prairie kame habitats that buffer Lacey
Creek.
The Conservation Foundation, $9,000.00.
Ferry Creek Wetland Restoration
– Phase II.
The Conservation Foundation, working with the Warrenville Park District,
will continue restoration efforts along an eight-acre riparian wetland
adjacent to Ferry Creek, a tributary to the West Branch Du Page River. Work
will include a prescribed burn, herbicide and broadcast seed over
approximately three acres of existing wetland.
Embarras River Partnership
Counties: Douglas, Edgar, Coles, Cumberland, Clark, Jasper, Crawford,
Richland, and Lawrence Contact: Vince Gutowski, 217/581-3825
Douglas-Hart Nature Center, $3,500.00.
Habitat Restoration and
Enhancement of Douglas-Hart Nature Center.
A wood chipper/shredder will be purchased to restore Douglas-Hart Nature
Center's forest from the damage caused by invasive bush honeysuckle (Lonicera
maackii). The nature center will supply the removal workforce and will use
the removal as an educational outreach opportunity.
Headwaters Partnership
Counties: Ford, Champaign, and Douglas Contact: Bruce
Stikkers, 217/352-3536, ext. 116
Champaign County Forest Preserve, $28,150.00.
Restoring the Hydrology and
Native Vegetation to Point Pleasant Wetland.
The project focus is to restore the hydrology and vegetation to the Pt.
Pleasant Wetland at the Middle Fork River Forest Preserve.
Urbana Park District, $49,825.00.
Judge Webber-Perkins Road Park
Restoration, Phase 2A.
The Urbana Park District will restore 6.5-acres of habitat on a former
stream floodplain. This project creates a variety of habitat types for
wetland and upland associated wildlife, protects existing habitat, and
improves area biodiversity. The area will also be used for conservation and
public environmental programs.
Heart of the Sangamon Partnership
Counties: DeWitt, Macon, and Piatt Contact: Paul Marion,
217/423-77058
Macon County Conservation District, $37,500.00.
Habitat Management
Equipment. The
Macon County Conservation District will purchase a multi-terrain rubber
tracked crawler with head attachments to control exotic and invasive woody
vegetation. This will allow for restoration and habitat management on Macon
County Conservation District lands.
Illinois River Bluffs Partnership
Counties: Bureau, Fulton, Knox, LaSalle, Lee, Marshall, Peoria, Putnam,
Stark, Tazewell, and Woodford
Contact: Kevin Williams, 309/647-7433
Irene Cull Chapter, Illinois Native Plant Society,
$20,600.00.
Garlic Mustard Control at Jubilee.
This project is phase one of a two step plan to reintroduce native plant
populations to areas of Jubilee College State Park that have been taken over
by garlic mustard. The goal of this project is to control and eradicate
garlic mustard from as wide an area as possible within heavily infested
areas of Jubilee College State Park.
Illinois Audubon Society, $48,430.00.
Plum Island Sanctuary
Reforestation.
The Illinois Audubon Society, with assistance from Living Lands and Waters
and Illinois Natural Areas Improvements, will restore the biodiversity and
ecological conditions of Plum Island by the process of reforestation.
Beneficiaries of this will be bald eagles, woodland songbirds and the nearly
two million annual visitors to Starved Rock State Park.
The Nature Conservancy, $242,514.25.
Prairie Habitat Restoration at
Emiquon Preserve along Illinois River.
The Nature Conservancy will plant and nurture a biologically diverse mix of
prairie forbs and grasses on formerly farmed land to restore a habitat that
once flourished along the floodplain of the Illinois River at The Nature
Conservancy's Emiquon Preserve.
Ducks Unlimited, $84,700.00.
Wightman Lake Wetland Restoration
and Demonstration Project.
The Wightman Lake Wetland Restoration and Demonstration Project will restore
85 acres of diverse, high quality wetland habitat on a 370-acre property
purchased by Ducks Unlimited. The project will serve as a demonstration area
for wetland restoration/management, improve water quality, and connect
habitat areas along the Illinois River.
Kankakee River Partnership
Counties: Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Vermilion, and Will
Contact: J.R. Black, 815/932-8341
City of Kankakee, $56,335.00.
Soldier Creek Restoration Phase 2.
Further habitat enhancement and stream bank stabilization tasks identified
in the original Soldier Creek project will be implemented on the North and
South banks of Soldier Creek, an urban stream tributary to the Kankakee
River.
Kankakee River Valley Forest Preserve District, $109,645.00.
Waldron
Arboretum Addition.
Kankakee River Valley Forest Preserve District will purchase a 36-acre
parcel adjacent to an existing Kankakee River Valley Forest Preserve
District site.
Kaskaskia River
Partnership
Counties: Montgomery, Bond, Madison, St. Clair, Clinton, Marion, and
Washington Contact: Larry Hasheider, 618/243-5514
Washington County Soil and Water Conservation District,
$22,000.00.
Garlic Mustard Control in the Kaskaskia.
Garlic Mustard was identified in the Elkhorn Creek drainage area of the
Kaskaskia River Basin approximately 5 years ago. Local volunteers,
landowners and governmental agencies will remove the exotic weed in an
effort to eradicate it from the area.
Southwestern Illinois Resource Conservation & Development,
$16,334.00.
Shoal Creek Watershed Stream Stabilization.
This project will utilize existing aerial photography in accessing and
developing streambank stabilization projects within Shoal Creek (Bond and
Montgomery Counties). Landowners will be contacted and feasible projects
will be designed and submitted to the Illinois Department of Agriculture for
implementation.
Kinkaid Area Watershed Partnership
Counties: Washington, Perry, and Jackson Contact:
Lou Strack, 618/684-5370
Greater Egypt Regional Planning and Development Commission,
$97,700.00.
Kinkaid Lake/Uplands Shoreline: Establish Transitional Wetland.
This project will establish a 2,260-foot long and 10-foot wide transitional
wetland between the proposed berm and the severely eroded upland shoreline
to create favorable habitat for natural succession of plant and animal life.
Kishwaukee River Partnership
Counties: McHenry, Boone, Winnebago, DeKalb, and Ogle
Contact: Nathan Hill, 815/544-1576
Natural Land Institute, $273,500.00.
Clear Water Legacy: Phase 3.
The Natural Land Institute will purchase perpetual conservation easements on
eight forested parcels (approx. 210 acres) protecting a four-mile stretch of
a Biologically Significant Stream, the South Branch of the Kishwaukee River.
Belvidere Park District, $107,500.00.
Belvidere Dam Fish Passage Project.
The Belvidere Park District along with a diverse group of stakeholders will
develop an alternative for implementing fish passage at Belvidere Dam.
Lake Calumet Partnership
Counties: Cook Contact: Mark Bouman, 773/995-2030
Chicago State University (CSU), $29,576.00.
Enhancing Educational
Activities at Chicago State University Community Teaching and Research
Prairie.
Chicago State University will enhance educational activities in the CSU
Research and Teaching Prairie Garden to strengthen community-building
efforts. It will support environmental education and establish a Prairie
Garden Education and Volunteer Coordinator who will coordinate visits,
educational activities and development of educational materials.
LaMoine River Partnership
Counties: Adams, Brown, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Schuyler, and
Warren Contact: Martha Sheppard, 217/285-4114
Landowner, $3,324.00.
Western Illinois University
Ferster Woods-Toland Connected Habitat Area.
This project proposes to develop 16 acres of Toland property, adjacent to
the 30 acre Western Illinois University Ferster Woods, to form a connected
habitat area. The Toland addition will be fenced for grazing and timber
stand improvement and tree replanting will be used to increase the quality
of the habitat.
Lower Des Plaines Partnership
Counties: Cook, Du Page, and Will Contact: Jim
Nachel, 815/727-8700, ext. 112
Medinah Park District, $157,620.00.
Medinah Wetlands Acquisition.
Medinah Park District will coordinate with DuPage County Forest Preserve to
acquire approximately 23 acres of wetlands. It will coordinate partnerships
with homeowners and environmental groups to restore and preserve wildlife
habitats (plant, animal, hydrology) and buffer zones and offer educational
opportunities for area school districts and educational groups.
Village of Homer Glen, $48,560.00.
Hydrologic Studies in Long Run
Seep. The
project will attempt to delineate and characterize the recharge area for
Long Run Seep using specialized dye techniques. Local hydrology will be
studied for purposes of understanding its impact on the Hines Emerald
Dragonfly habitat, a federally endangered species.
Village of Homer Glen, $40,000.00.
Longitudinal Profiling of Long Run
Creek. The Long
Run Creek Planning committee will conduct a detailed physical and biological
survey of the stream channel and stream corridor. Assessment of the biology
and physical habitat will be used to determine whether the biodiversity of
the system can be sustained or restored, and to identify intervention
strategies. Students will aid in data collection.
Lower Kaskaskia River Partnership
Counties: Macoupin, Montgomery, Madison, Bond, St. Clair, Washington,
Randolph, Perry, Monroe, and Jackson
Contact: Norm Etling, 618/632-1406, ext. 3
Southwestern Illinois Resource Conservation & Development,
$21,637.50.
Conservation Subdivision Guidance.
This project will create a guidance document for use within Southwestern
Illinois that encourages the use of conservation subdivisions. Local experts
will use existing information in the documents development. The document
will be presented to officials at both the county and community level to
encourage the adoption of its recommendations.
Southwestern Illinois Resource Conservation & Development,
$17,500.00.
Southwestern Illinois Bluff Ecosystem Restoration.
This project will facilitate exotic species removal and brush control on at
least six high quality natural areas along the bluff ecosystem in St. Clair,
Monroe and Randolph Counties. Approximately 50 acres of hill prairie/glade
and forested bluff, which contain rare species found nowhere else in the
state, will benefit from the work.
Lower Rock River Partnership
Counties: Lee, Whiteside, Rock Island, Henry, Bureau, Ogle, and Carroll
Contact: Larry Reed, 815/288-4674
Landowner, $7,020.00.
Rock River Flood Plain Habitat.
This project will provide a woody flood plain habitat and restore an upland
sand prairie. These habitats will connect to existing Conservation Reserve
Program and native wooded wetlands.
Rolling Thunder Prairie, $8,790.00.
See Two Thousand Weeds Disappear.
This project is to continue restoring Rolling Thunder Prairie back to the
rich sand prairie it was before it was settled. Employees will aggressively
remove and control invasive Old World plants and continue overseeing local
ecotype natives.
Dixon Park District, $10,625.00.
Meadows Park Restoration Project.
Dixon Park District will apply proven management techniques to restore
natural communities, including old growth forest, savanna, dolomite cliffs
and prairie at the 400-acre Meadows Park along Rock River in Lee County, IL.
Restoration will increase diversity of native flora and provide quality
wildlife habitat for species of concern.
The Nature Conservancy, $16,087.50.
Prescribed Fire Expansion Project.
Prescribed burn fire equipment will be upgraded at Nachusa Grasslands to
promote the restoration and management of the preserve, and to increase The
Nature Conservancy’s ability to provide burning assistance to neighbors and
other conservation partners.
Lower Sangamon Valley Partnership
Counties: Cass, Christian, Logan, McLean, Macon, Macoupin, Mason, Menard,
Montgomery, Morgan, Sangamon, Shelby, and Tazewell
Contact: Marilyn Kelton, 217/632-7590, ext. 3
Landowner, $3,380.00.
Parrish Hill Prairie Restoration.
This project will restore 36 acres of Loess Hill Prairie habitat along with
associated timbered ridges, valleys and prairie within the Panther creek
watershed. It will also ensure the successful regeneration of two listed
state endangered species.
Jennie Marr Dunaway Memorial Park, $9,721.94.
Summer Daze Youth Program.
This project will educate students on natural resources and conservation
through hands on activities.
Menard County Soil and Water Conservation District,
$18,920.00.
Grassland Enhancement.
Menard County Soil and Water Conservation District will enhance acreage
enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program and other similar programs.
Warm season grasses and native forbs will be planted to increase wildlife.
Mackinaw River Partnership
Counties: Ford, Livingston, McLean, Mason, Tazewell, and Woodford
Contact: Mary Jo Adams, 309/438-5955
Woodford County Soil and Water Conservation District,
$1,787.50.
What’s in YOUR Woodlands.
The Woodford County Soil and Water Conservation District will conduct a
management workshop for landowners of woodland and riparian establishments
to enhance the wildlife habitat. Targeted landowners will be provided with
an educational opportunity to learn about Best Management Practices for
improving and managing their timber and riparian areas. The intended result
will be an increase in higher quality habitat.
Landowner, $11,120.00.
Riparian Corridor Reforestation
Project.
Project will consist of planting native trees and shrubs along Denman Creek,
a high quality tributary to the Mackinaw River. This will restore the
riparian buffer width, connect fragmented forested habitat, provide food for
wildlife and serve as a host site for ecosystem best-management practices.
North Branch of the Chicago River
Counties: Cook and Lake Contact: Sean Wiedel, 847/918-7693
Lake County Forest Preserve District, $72,462.00.
Elm Road Northern
Flatwoods and Savanna Restoration Project.
The Lake County Forest Preserve District will restore these areas using
integrated pest management, reforestation and native seeding (Best
Management Practices). The restoration will increase connectivity of
regionally important communities, restore the potential habitat of three
threatened plant species and offer a buffer to a high quality Northern
Flatwoods community.
Youth Conservation Corporation (YCC), $15,115.00.
Youth Conservation
Corporation Lake Bluff Conservation Crew.
The YCC summer crew will remove garlic mustard, exotic and invasive brush
and tree species. It will reintroduce native species and help with
community reconstruction.
Ozark Hills Partnership
Counties: Union, Alexander, Jackson, Randolph
Contact: Michael Baltz, 618/634-2524
Union County Soil and Water Conservation District,
$264,000.00.
Improving Wildlife Habitat with Ecosystem Based Best
Management Practices.
The purpose of this project is to improve the wildlife habitat using Best
Management Practices to correct erosion problems at sites having a potential
of six tons of soil loss or more.
Prairie Parklands Partnership
Counties: Kendall, LaSalle, Grundy, Will, Cook, Kankakee, and Livingston
Contact: Rita Renwick, 815/725-2934
Forest Preserve District of Will County, $20,000.00.
Savanna and Sedge
Meadow Enhancement at Pottawatomie Woods Preserve.
This project will preserve the existing Illinois Natural Area Inventory
sedge meadow at Pottawatomie Woods Preserve by monitoring vegetation,
controlling invasive species, installing fire lines and developing and
implementing a prescribed burn plan. The Joliet Park District will also
provide access to this preserve.
Midewin Tallgrass Prairie Alliance, $6,000.00.
Common Spiders of
Prairies and Savannas of Northeastern Illinois: A Brochure.
Midewin Tallgrass Prairie Alliance will produce a color brochure (10,000
copies) that illustrates 20-30 common spiders of prairies and savannas. The
biology of each species will be described briefly. The brochure is intended
for distribution at sites within the Prairie Parklands.
Rock River Partnership
Counties: Ogle Contact: Robert Vogl, 815/732-7332
Girl Scouts – Rock River Valley, $47,000.00.
Prescribed Fire Break
Creation & Complementary Educational Strategies.
This project will create firebreaks as well as thin savannas and wetlands of
excessive woody plants to allow safe and efficient reintroduction of
prescribed burning. Educational strategies will also be developed for our
members, board, campers and surrounding communities to share reasons and
methods for reintroducing prescribed burns.
Flagg Rochelle Community Park District, $26,903.00.
Natural Area
Restoration – Skare Park.
Skare Park contains high quality remnants of Oak/Hickory Savanna, Sedge
Meadow, Wet Prairie and Ravine ecosystems. The park district will restore
these remnants by removing invasive woody herbaceous flora, collecting and
planting seed and reintroducing prescribed burns.
Byron Forest Preserve District, $19,550.00.
Undesirable Brush and Small
to Medium Diameter Tree Removal in the Rock River Partnership.
Project will purchase a FECON Bull Hog skid steer attachment to be used for
mechanical removal of medium diameter exotic and opportunistic native woody
vegetation in natural areas throughout the Rock River Partnership. It will
be used as a cost-effective management tool in restoring prairies, wetlands
and oak savanna/woodland communities.
Saline Watershed Basin Partnership
Counties: Franklin, Williamson, Johnson, Saline, Hamilton, White, Gallatin,
and Hardin Contact: Bobby Simpson, 618/462-1181
Saline Basin Watershed, $158,926.00.
Prescribed Burn Project.
The goal of this project is to develop and support four prescribed burn
crews within the Shawnee and Saline River Partnerships. This project will
provide equipment, training, organization and coordination necessary to burn
more than 2,200 acres of both prairie and oak-dominant forested areas.
Shawnee Partnership
Counties: Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, and Saline
Contact: Grover Webb, 618/683-2651
Pope-Hardin Soil and Water Conservation District,
$30,970.00.
Control of Exotics in the Shawnee.
Pope-Hardin Soil and Water Conservation District will assist landowners with
exotic plant control of garlic mustard, Chinese yam and Chinese packing
grass.
Pope-Hardin Soil and Water Conservation Districts,
$196,534.00.
Woodland Habitat Enhancement Program-Phase II.
This program will encourage landowners to implement forest management plans
for their existing woodland and will provide cost-share funds to landowners
interested in Forest Stand Improvement to their property.
Sugar Pecatonica Rivers Partnership
Counties: Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Winnebago, Carroll, and Ogle
Contact: Dave Mullen, 815/629-2468
Stephenson Soil and Water Conservation Districts, $127,300.
Fen and Sedge
Acquisition and Easement.
Thirty acres of a rare, high-quality graminoid fen wetland and sedge meadow
will be acquired and placed in a conservation easement for its preservation.
Management of the fen and control of invasive species will be conducted by
District staff. Access will be provided for educational and scientific study
purposes.
Natural Land Institute, $75,000.00.
Nieman Marsh Conservation Easement.
This project will place a perpetual conservation easement on one of the most
important, unprotected wetlands in the Pecatonica River basin. Nine
threatened and endangered birds use the property, including two nesting
species.
Thorn Creek Macrosite Partnership
Counties: Cook and Will Contact: Karen D’Arcy, 708/534-4526
Thorn Creek Management Commission, $34,150.00.
Thorn Creek Woods
Nature Preserve Prairie Restoration.
The Thorn Creek Woods Nature Preserve Management Commission will restore the
prairie/forest boundary mapped by the general land surveyors in the 1830's.
In order to accomplish this goal, invasive brush will be removed, herbicide
will be spread on stumps and native prairie seed installed.
Upper Des Plaines Partnership
Counties: Lake, Du Page, and Cook Contact: Jim Anderson,
847/968-3282
Land Conservancy of Lake County, $20,969.50.
Wetland Enhancement at
Pohickory Nature Preserve, Phase 3.
Eight-point-three acres of wetlands and uplands at the 31.5 acre Pohickory
Nature Preserve will be enhanced to increase floristic quality and the
wildlife habitat. The Land Conservancy of Lake County will have students
control exotic weeds and shrubs by spraying herbicide, brush clearing,
seeding and plant propagation.
Liberty Prairie Conservancy, $44,000.00.
Phase 5 Liberty Prairie
Preserve Restoration Project.
Liberty Prairie Conservancy will work to naturalize a 15-acre farm field,
restore 1,000 feet of stream corridor and evaluate the removal of an earthen
dam upstream. The project will improve water quality, reduce erosion,
restore the habitat and enhance the hydrology of this site.
Upper Des Plaines Ecosystem Partnership (UDPREP),
$49,400.00.
Promoting Stakeholder Information Sharing and Learning.
UDPREP has identified a number of important watershed tasks and will provide
opportunities for stakeholders to share valuable information, experiences
and knowledge about the watershed.
Upper Little Wabash Partnership
Counties: Clay, Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Fayette, Jasper, Marion, and
Shelby Contact: Fred Walker, 618/548-4234
George P. Irwin Conservation Education Station, $13,430.00.
Irwin
Conservation Education Station Enhancement Project.
This project will restore and maintain natural plant communities (upland
prairie, forest, riparian corridors and wetlands) at the Irwin Education
Station. The project goals will be achieved through the control of exotic
species and woody encroachment, greater use of prescribed burning and
woodland management practices.
Ballard Nature Center, $65,400.00.
Fauna Survey of the Upper Little
Wabash. Ballard
Nature Center staff will conduct baseline surveys throughout the Upper
Little Wabash Partnership to determine fauna distributions and identify
priority sites for management and protection.
Effingham County Soil and Water Conservation District,
$61,800.00.
Aerial Video Assessment for Little Wabash Tributaries.
The Effingham County Soil and Water Conservation District will complete an
aerial video assessment of selected tributaries in the Little Wabash River
in Effingham and Clay Counties. The assessment will be used in the
partnership’s planning process to determine where and what type of practices
should be implemented for resource conservation.
Upper Rock River Partnership
Counties: Boone, Stephenson, and Winnebago Contact: Ed
Johnston, 815/965-2292, ext. 3
Natural Land Institute, $401,000.00.
Kinnikinnick Creek Buffer Land
Acquisition.
The Natural Land Institute will purchase and restore to prairie 52 acres of
farmland between Kinnikinnick Creek and the Stone Bridge Nature Trail in
Roscoe, Illinois. This will create a 73-acre prairie, protect a Biologically
Significant Stream and buffer a Land and Water Reserve and Illinois Natural
Area Inventory site that is home to the threatened Lespedeza leptostachya.
Vermilion River Partnership
Counties: Vermilion and Iroquois Contact: Kevin Green,
217/442-8511
Vermilion County Soil and Water Conservation District,
$16,000.00.
Install 200 Acres of Native Grass Habitat.
The project will continue the successful installment of 1,000 acres of
native grass habitat. The additional 200 acres will meet the partnership's
goals to increase nesting & winter habitat, increase the overall wildlife
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