The Illinois wildlife action plan : defining a vision for conservation success

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Federal Aid Project T-2-P-1Ope

ILLINOIS RECREATIONAL ACCESS PROGRAM APPLICATION

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Title: Illinois Recreational Access Program (IRAP) Legal Name of State Agency and applying department/division: Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) Proposed project area: 66 CREP eligible counties in the Illinois and Kaskaskia River Watersheds: Adams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clinton, Coles, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt, Douglas, DuPage, Eff mgham, Fayette, Ford, Fulton, Greene, Grundy, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Jefferson, Jersey, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Mason, McDonough, McHenry, McLean, Menard, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Peoria, Perry, Piatt, Pike, Putnam, Randolph, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, St. Clair, Stark, Tazewell, Vermilion, Warren, Washington, Will, and Woodford Counties. Length of grant request ( l -3 years): 3 years Congressional Districts: All Illinois Congressional Districts 1 -19 ACTIVITIES Through this grant, the State of Illinois will launch a new public access program with three access campaigns to provide new opportunities for youth turkey hunting, deer and upland game hunting, fishing, canoeing and boating. The new program will be offered in the 66 county Illinois CREP area. Due to the tremendous demand for fishing and canoeing access in the Chicago Metropolitan area, the initial focus for fishing will be river, stream and impoundment access in the Kankakee River Watershed. The Illinois CREP is an extremely popular riparian and wetland based program that, since inception in 1998, has enrolled 126,000 acres. These CREP acres have been restored to forests, wetlands and prairies along the Illinois River and tributaries providing a huge base of potential participants with appropriate habitats for IRAP. The Illinois CREP received sufficient state funding in State Fiscal Year 2010 to expand to the Kaskaskia River Watershed and to enroll an additional 105,000 new acres, which will provide another large source of potential participants for IRAP. Intergovernmental Agency Agreements are currently in place between the IDNR and the County Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs) for the implementation of CREP and can easily be modified to accommodate the new IRAP. While CREP acres will be targeted, all eligible landowners in the CREP area will have the opportunity to enroll in IRAP. The long-term goaJ is to expand IRAP statewide and to expand the availability of other compatible recreational use activities for Illinois landowners and recreational users. With 95% of Illinois land in private ownership and a huge demand for recreational use opportunities, creating a new public access program for private lands is critical to IDNR and the State

Mackinaw River area assessment.

The Mackinaw River begins near Sibley in Ford County and runs west to meet the Illinois River south of Pekin, Illinois. The boundaries of the Mackinaw River Area Assessment, as well as the Mackinaw River Ecosystem Partnership area, coincide with the boundaries of the Mackinaw River Basin. This area is situated along the roughly 125-mile river in the counties of Tazewell, McLean, and Woodford, with small sections in Mason, Livingston, and Ford counties. The Basin has 15 subbasins (identified by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency) which cover approximately 1,138 squ mi (728,495 acres). The land in the Panther Creek and the "middle" Mackinaw River subbasins, an area totaling 124,740 acres, was designated a state "Resource Rich Area" because it contains significant natural community diversity. The Mackinaw River Ecosystem Partnership was subsequently formed around this core area of high quality ecological resources. This assessment is comprised oftwo volumes. In Volume 1, Land Cover Inventory provides an overview of the land cover in the region; Geology discusses the geology, soils, and minerals in the assessment. area; Water Resources discusses the surface and groundwater resources; and Living Resources describes the natural vegetation communities and the fauna of the region. In Volume 2, the Socio-Economic Profile discusses the demographics, infrastructure, and economy of the area, focusing on the three counties with the greatest amount of land in the watershed area --McLean, Tazewell and Woodford counties; Environmental Quality discusses air and water quality, and hazardous and toxic waste generation and management in the area; Archaeological Resources identifies and assesses the archaeological sites, ranging from the Paleoindian Prehistoric (B.C. 10,000) to the Historic (A.D. 1650), known in the assessment watershed; and Early Accounts of the Ecology of the Mackinaw River Area describes the ecology of the area as recorded by historical writings of explorers, pioneers, early visitors and early historians.published or submitted for publicatio

ILLINOIS RECREATIONAL ACCESS PROGRAM [funded]

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) received a $525,250 grant award on September 24, 2010 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency\u27 Voluntary Public Access andHabitat Improvement Program (VPA-HIP) to develop and implement an Illinois Recreational Access Program (IRAP)

Marine Game Fish Tagging Program monthly summary

This monthly summary gives statistics for the Marine Game Fish Tagging Program

South Carolina Wildlife, May-June 2010

The South Carolina Wildlife Magazines are published by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources who are dedicated to educating citizens on the value, conservation, protection, and restoration of South Carolina's wildlife and natural resources. These magazines showcase the state’s natural resources and outdoor recreation opportunities by including articles and images of conservation, reflections and tales, field notes, recipes, and more. In this issue: Directions ; Forum ; Hands-On Outdoors: Cut and Rig Your Own Cane Pole ; For Wildlife Watchers: Bobcat ; Out Scoutin': Congaree Creek Heritage Preserve ; Roundtable ; Clips! ; Events ; Common Sense Ecology: Catastrophe and Perception

Marine Game Fish Tagging Program monthly summary

This monthly summary gives statistics for the Marine Game Fish Tagging Program

South Carolina Wildlife, September-October 2013

The South Carolina Wildlife Magazines are published by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources who are dedicated to educating citizens on the value, conservation, protection, and restoration of South Carolina's wildlife and natural resources. These magazines showcase the state’s natural resources and outdoor recreation opportunities by including articles and images of conservation, reflections and tales, field notes, recipes, and more. In this issue: Directions ; Forum ; Swampers ; In The Field With John Ray Kimbrell ; A Fighting Chance For Wildlife ; A Tale Of Two Gators ; A Day In The (Wild) Life ; Not From Off: Southern Hackberry ; For Wildlife Watchers: Brown Recluse ; Out Scoutin': Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge ; Roundtable ; Clips And Links! ; Events ; Humor ; Outdoors Inbox: Early Bird