|
Project description |
Location |
Amount of funding |
Contact
|
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Monitoring of rare plants |
Northeastern Illinois forest
preserves and conservation districts, through Chicago Botanic
Garden |
$20,000 |
Kris Jarantoski
|
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Botanical inventory of Prairie
Ridge State Natural Area |
Through Eastern Illinois
University |
$3,877 |
Dr. Gordon Tucker |
|
Prairie Hill Complex Project;
create cooperative management of Browning Hill Prairie, Walnut
Grove Hill Prairie, North New Canton Hill Prairie |
Pike and Calhoun counties |
$10,000 |
Dean Corgiat
|
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Monitor deer-browse impact on
IDNR-owned natural areas |
Statewide |
$10,000 |
Randy Heidorn |
|
Official census of birds on
Lake Shelbyville Fish and Wildlife Management areas, prior to
ecosystem restoration |
Shelby and Moultrie counties |
$4,658.16 |
Eric Smith |
|
Freshwater mussel survey |
Vermilion River, LaSalle and
Livingston counties |
$2,250 |
Robert Szafoni |
|
Digitize community boundary
maps for Natural Areas Tracking System Database |
Statewide |
$9,000 |
Patti Reilly |
|
Update historical plant species
records contained in the natural heritage database; permanently
record locations using GPS; assess plant populations; update
records in Illinois Natural History Database |
Statewide |
$20,000 |
Patti Reilly |
|
Inventory celastrus orbiculatus
invasions in southern Illinois, using GPS |
Alexander, Gallatin, Jackson,
Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Saline, Union and Williamson
counties |
$3,597.40 |
Dr. Carol Williams |
|
Update map and centralize and
computerize all factual data about endangered species in
Illinois |
Statewide |
$20,000 |
Fran Harty |
|
Collect, organize and interpret
scientific and observational data associated with ecological
disturbance and restoration of Cache River Watershed |
Alexander, Johnson, Massac,
Pulaski and Union counties |
$9,100 |
Michael Baltz |
|
Study of population dynamics of
Caspian and Forester's terns, with goal of maintaining or
expanding the tern population |
Lake, McHenry and Cook counties |
$10,275 |
Michael Ward |
|
Study of vegetation of the
Mississippi River sand deposits |
Jo Daviess, Carroll, Whiteside,
Rock Island, Mercer, Henderson and Hancock counties |
$10,802 |
John E. Ebinger |
|
Study and quantify Blanding
turtle and biom of the chelonian community |
Lockport Prairie North, Will
County |
$6,235 |
Dr. Michael Dresklik |
|
Partially cover cost of
producing Field Manual of Illinois Mammals |
Statewide |
$8,000 of total cost of $45,000 |
Joyce E. Hofmann |
|
Assess land use requirements
for three butterfly populations at Sand Ridge State Forest |
Mason County |
$9,990 |
Vernon LaGesse |
|
Construct examples of habitats
for reptiles and amphibians |
Madison County; Altamont,
Ballard Nature Center |
$1,000 |
Karan Greuel |
|
Develop three-day program that
teaches ecological concepts, including food chains, environments
and plant-animal relationships |
Ogle County |
$1,000 |
Richie Wolf |
|
Optical equipment purchase for
nature viewing at Ballard Nature Center |
Effingham County |
$1,000 |
Karan Greuel |
|
Survey bats in Lake County;
study impact of woodland restoration on bat population |
Lake County |
$1,000 |
Debra Scott |
|
Study impact of assisted
pollination in three species of the plant Asclepias |
Champaign and Shelby counties |
$962.50 |
Dr. Scott Meiners |
|
Establish reading program,
"Read to Me under the Great Oak Tree," to enhance awareness of
local natural resources and non-game wildlife species |
Cook County |
$981.45 |
Julie Vandervort |
|
Summer internship program in
natural areas management |
14 sites in Champaign County |
$1,000 |
James Ellis |
|
Produce a brochure for
homeowners to assist with urban yard restoration |
Statewide |
$1,000 |
Marilyn Campbell |
|
Funding for education and
conservation appreciation day |
Effingham County |
$1,000 |
Marilyn Campbell |
|
Funding for teaching materials
and kits about Illinois prairie, to be made available to
educators |
Jasper County |
$1,000 |
Marilyn Campbell |
|
Enhancement of Illinois Audubon
Society to enable teachers to download materials, students to
report data and teacher workshops |
Statewide |
$1,000 |
Susan Shaw |
|
Environmental education
programs for urban children; environmental program for
low-income students |
Sangamon County |
$1,000 |
Susan Shaw |
|
Establish garden habitat for
hummingbirds and butterflies |
Joliet |
$935.41 |
Debbie Greene |
|
Conduct red-shouldered hawk
inventory |
Jo Daviess and Carroll counties |
$1,000 |
Jon Stravers |
|
Design, plant, maintain and
document an indigenous prairie planting |
Melrose Park, Manheim Middle
School |
$1,000 |
Barbara Rezabek |
|
Mussel diversity survey;
development of educational resources for schools |
Mazon River Watershed, Grundy
County |
$1,000 |
Eileen Grosso |
|
Purchase of interpretive signs
to be installed along a prairie trail to create an outdoor
classroom |
Neoga Schools, Cumberland
County |
$955 |
Amy Brown |
|
Study of characteristics of
mines necessary for bats to use as a hibernaculum |
Alexander County |
$1,000 |
Dr. George Feldhamer |
|
Educational program, display
and brochures on non-game wildlife |
McLean County |
$1,000 |
Angela Smith |
|
Survey endangered river cooter
(species of turtle); examine life history trends |
Gallatin County |
$1,000 |
Michael Dreslik |
|
Evaluation of shorebird
behavior, habitat use and food resource availability during
migration |
Mason and Fulton counties, Rice
Lake and Banner Marsh State Fish and Wildlife Area, Fulton and
Peoria counties |
$1,000 |
Edward Heske |
|
Determine impact of Newbury
Weirs on stream quality |
Knox County |
$1,000 |
Hope Dodd |
|
Study effects of water quality
on breeding ecology of the yellow-headed blackbird and other
wetland species |
Cook, DuPage, McHenry and Lake
counties |
$990 |
Laura Roberts |
|
Study winter diet of long-eared
owls at Lost Mound |
Carroll and Jo Daviess counties |
$1,000 |
|
|
Freshwater mussel survey |
Edgar County |
$1,000 |
Jeremy Tiemann |
|
Materials revised for Illinois
Prairie Programs at Anita Purves Nature Center |
Urbana |
$1,000 |
Ellen Kirsanoff |
|
Educational- interpretive
signposts funded for wheelchair-accessible trail ways and
fishing piers |
Fulton County |
$597.82 |
Lee Newton |
