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Illinois Magazine Insert for Illinois Wildlife Action Plan
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- a constituent forum for Illinois citizens to voice their opinion on agency matters.
Illinois Wildlife Action Plan
Target Hunger Now!
Big Buck Recognition
Sportsmen Against Hunger
Partners for Conservation
- Among the challenges the State of Illinois faces in its effort to manage its natural resources is preserving and enhancing biological resources in a landscape that is 90 percent privately owned with more than 75 percent of the state in farmland. Broad-based, multi-disciplinary solutions to ecological problems were explored by the Water Resources and Land Use Priorities Task Force and Illinois' First and Second Conservation Congresses. Their realistic, goal-driven recommendations are bringing the dawn of a new age to land management in Illinois.
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- The Department of Natural Resources has numerous programs available to assist with recreational, educational and environmental improvements and projects.
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- Thousands of volunteers are used at all the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) Park sites every year and are a major asset in maintaining the parks natural and recreational resources. Without the volunteers we would not be able to maintain the parks and manage them as well as we do.