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ENTICE workshops for fall 2006:
Registration remains open for all Environment and Nature Training
Institute for Conservation Education workshops scheduled for this
fall.
ENTICE workshops provide background information, lessons,
supplemental resources and continuing professional development units
for schoolteachers throughout the state.
Other fall 2006 workshops: Illinois Spiders, at the Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, on Sept. 30; an
Introduction to the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Design Contest, at
Dickson Mounds Museum, Lewistown, on Sept. 30; a Project WILD
workshop at Giant City State Park, Makanda, on Nov. 3; Physical
Education Opportunities at the World Shooting and Recreational
Complex, Sparta, on Nov. 4; and Incorporating Illinois Learning
Standard 11B into the Natural Resources, at the Irons Oaks
Environmental Center, Olympia Fields, on Nov. 4. To see the complete
schedule, workshop descriptions or to register, visit the Department
of Natural Resources
website.
ICF Youth Scholarship Program: The Illinois Conservation
Foundation is accepting nominations for the annual Conservation
Youth Achievement Scholarship program. Ten high school juniors or
seniors -- one female and one male from each of the five Department
of Natural Resources regions in Illinois -- will be selected.
Students who have made significant contributions or exhibited
unparalleled dedication in preserving, promoting, enhancing or
supporting natural resources conservation are eligible. Each student
selected will receive a $1,000 scholarship. Applicants must be
Illinois residents, members of the high school class of 2007 or
2008, and must be nominated by a natural resource constituency
group, community leader, school administrator, teacher or adult
mentor. The deadline to apply is Dec. 1. Those selected will be
presented with the scholarships at the annual Illinois Outdoor Hall
of Fame banquet at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Springfield on Feb. 3,
2007. The scholarship program is supported through funds raised at
the banquet. The
nomination form is available at
www.ilcf.org. For more information, call 217-785-2003.
[To download Adobe Acrobat Reader for the PDF
file, click here.]
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 Ginseng license reminder: Any person engaged in digging or
harvesting wild ginseng in Illinois must have in their possession an
Illinois ginseng harvesters' license. This license must be in their
possession when selling ginseng. Harvesters' licenses cost $7.50 and
may be purchased from
DNR Direct license and permit vendors, through the Department of
Natural Resources website, or by calling toll-free 1-888-6PERMIT.
The season for harvesting wild ginseng in Illinois is from the first
Saturday in September (Sept. 2 this year) through Nov. 1 annually.
The harvest of wild ginseng is limited to plants that are 10 years
of age (four-leafed) or older. When harvesting wild ginseng,
harvesters are to plant all of the seeds from the harvested plants
in the vicinity of the parent plants in a manner that will encourage
their germination and growth. The digging and taking of ginseng from
any property without permission of the landowner is a violation of
the law.
[Illinois
Department of Natural Resources news release]
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