The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service accepted a 66-acre donation of land from Friends of the Kankakee to officially establish the Kankakee National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area.
This became official on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 and becomes the nation’s 564th national wildlife refuge.
You can read more here on the FAQ sheet, and here’s the official issued news release.
Such great news!
Congressman Mike Bost (IL-12) this week introduced a bill to create Cahokia Mounds Mississippian Culture National Historical Park. Heartlands Conservancy thanks the congressman for his extraordinary leadership, along with the leadership and support of Congressmen Lacy Clay, John Shimkus, and Rodney Davis and Senator Dick Durbin. In 2014, HeartLands Conservancy, in collaboration with Native American…
Executive Director Cynthia Kanner was interviewed on WGN-TV to talk about PSCC’s role in Illinois’s conservation on World Nature Conservation Day, Sunday, July 28. Kanner talked about future plans for PSCC with the $42 million grant received from the Illinois Clean Energy Commission Foundation earlier this year. (click on the image below to view the…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is hosting a webinar Thursday, December 7 on the rusty patched bumble bee to present information about the Service’s conservation strategy; where to get information about section 7 consultations, project reviews, research needs, and surveys; resources that are available to you; and what you can do to help the…
In what Land Trust Alliance President Rand Wentworth calls the single greatest legislative action in decades, Congress passed a federal tax incentive bill supporting land conservation. This legislation made permanent the tax incentive for farmers, ranchers and other individuals who place a conservation easement on their land preserving natural resources forever. It also made permanent the IRA charitable rollover. The…
Advanced placement and honors Environmental Science students at Barrington High School became “citizen scientists” by conducting water testing at five Flint Creek sites in late October, as an ongoing part of Barrington Area Conservation Trust’s Conservation@School Project. The students continued the stream monitoring work that had begun in September by performing physical, chemical and biological…
