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| "The Conservation Congress is an important avenue
for agricultural organizations to network with other groups to better
understand each other's views."
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--Eleanor Zimmerlein, IL
Agri-Women
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 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 and their realistic,
goal-driven recommendations are bringing the dawn of a new age 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. Click on any of
the following links to take you directly to those sections on our website
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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. |
| Public review and comment was requested on
the new 2003-2008 Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP).
SCORP assesses the supply of and demand for outdoor recreation in the state,
identifies outdoor recreation needs and establishes priorities for Department
of Natural Resources grant programs.
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