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Under a bright blue sky is a grassland full of tall tan grasses. The grassland is bordered on three sides by tall trees.
A woodland in spring before the trees have leafed out and the ground is covered in flowering bluebells. Overlaying the photo on the top right is the 100th anniversary logo celebrating the 100 years of the founding of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
A prairie stretches out along a treeline in Illinois on a cloudy day. Overlaying the photo on the top right is the 100th anniversary logo celebrating the 100 years of the founding of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

Before the Illinois Department of Natural Resources: Conservation History Prior to 1925

May 1, 2025 by Laura Kammin

People | 100th Anniversary | Fishing | Habitat Management or Enhancement | Hunting | Places to Visit | Regulations

The sun rises over a wetland and illuminates the surface of the water. In the background is a horizon line of trees. Overlaying the photo on the top right is the 100th anniversary logo celebrating the 100 years of the founding of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

Director’s Message on a Centennial Celebration

May 1, 2025 by Natalie Phelps Finnie

People | 100th Anniversary

Two students looking into microscopes examining samples to identify macro invertebrates.

Illinois RiverWatch Celebrates 30 Years of Community Science

May 1, 2025 by Hannah Griffis, Danelle Haake

People | Habitat Management or Enhancement | Rivers and Lakes | Volunteers

A close up view of a net. A crayfish and a few macro-invertebrates can be seen in the net.

Oh, Hell-grammite! Good Quality.

May 1, 2025 by Patty Gillespie

People

A group of men pose together against a building covered in silver metal siding against a concrete foundation.

Furbearer Trapping School

May 1, 2025 by Kathy Andrews Wright

People | Mammals

A brown and white bald eagle soars on a sunny winter day. In the background are tree branches. On the top right, a logo celebrating Illinois Department of Natural Resources being established for 100 years overlays the image of the eagle.

Illinois Department of Natural Resources Centennial as a State Agency: 1925–2025

February 3, 2025 by Chris Young

Aquatic Organisms | Land | People | Wildlife | 100th Anniversary | History of Conservation

A tan and white freshwater mussel nestled in a sandy river bed.

Finding the Elusive Salamander Mussel Alive in Illinois After a Century in Obscurity

February 3, 2025 by Sarah Douglass, Mark Davis

Aquatic Organisms | People | Research | Endangered and Threatened Species | Mussels | Research | Rivers and Lakes

A researcher standing on a concrete sidewalk holds a wild duck with a rusty red head and a black and gray body. In the background are various trees.

Meet the Staff: Mitch Oswald, Division of Wildlife Resources Field Operation Staff Head

February 3, 2025 by Kaleigh Gabriel

People | Wildlife | IDNR Staff | Wildlife

A group of high school aged students stand together in two rows. The teacher stands to the right of the students in the second back row.

Voices for the Future: Everyone Can Make a Difference

February 3, 2025 by Tristin Bednar, Madelynn Grampp, Megan Wiechmann

Aquatic Organisms | Land | People | Wildlife | Regulations | Youth

A group of people stand under the shade of a maple tree and discuss the operational plan of a prescribed burn. Most individuals are wearing fire retardant clothing. In the background is a small house, a trailer pulled by a pickup truck with fire fighting gear, and a gray car.

Barb Heyen Builds a Conservation Team

February 3, 2025 by Gilbert Randolph

Land | People | Wildlife | Habitat Management or Enhancement

A woman wearing a navy blue backpack hikes through a spring woodland along a trail.

Contracting Lyme Disease Now May Be Linked to Mental Health Symptoms Later

February 3, 2025 by Jenny Lelwica Buttaccio

People | Recreation | Ticks

A gray, white shorebird with a black stripe on its forehead and on its collar stands on a sandy beach. The bird has bands around each leg identifying it for research purposes.

Endangered Piping Plovers Making History in Illinois

February 3, 2025 by Sheryl DeVore

Land | People | Wildlife | Endangered and Threatened Species | Natural Heritage Pick | Places to Visit | Rivers and Lakes

A mowed path dissects a prairie in two. On the mowed path stands a hunter with his black Labrador dog and a Conservation Police officer wearing a black jacket and cap. The two individuals talk and interact with a bright blue sky overhead.

CPO Field Checks

November 1, 2024 by Steven Beltran

People | Recreation | Hunting | Regulations

A grassland divided by a mowed path traveling back to a forest. Above is a bright partly cloudy blue sky.

Much Like in Real Estate, the First Rule in Trapping is LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!

November 1, 2024 by Tim Kelley

People | Recreation | Wildlife | Mammals | Trapping

A group of people stand together and pose for a photo on a green lawn. In the background is a green leafy tree. In the foreground is a concrete sidewalk.

Restoring Volo Bog

November 1, 2024 by Jonathan Sabath, Stephen Packard, Christos Economou, Heidi Gibson, Betty Sollman

Land | People | Habitat Management or Enhancement | Places to Visit | Plants | Wetland

A grassy field with yellow flowers interspersed throughout. In the background a bright blue sky is behind a line of trees.

How One Farmer is Building His Soil and Helping Wildlife in the Process

November 1, 2024 by Carla Rich Montez

Land | People | Habitat Management or Enhancement

A group children gather together around two children holding and examining two turtles.
A huge aquarium tank filled with different large fish. The very large tank is in a large high-top tent in a State Fair. Sunlight filters through the entrance of the tent to the large aquarium tank. To the right are people visiting the tent and looking at taxidermied fish arranged on the wall of the space.

Focus Your Illinois State Fair Visit on New Fish Exhibits

August 1, 2024 by Kevin Irons

Aquatic Organisms | People | Recreation | Fish | Fishing | Places to Visit

Explore Our Family of Websites

A link the Wildlife Illinois web site with advertisements for its four sections: Help, Sightings, Wildlife Identification, and Prevent Problems.
A link the Hunt Illinois web site.
A link the CICADA web site.
A link the Living with White-tailed Deer web site with advertisements for its three sections: ecology, management, and history.