JDCF congratulates the City of Galena, IL on being designated as a “Bird City of Illinois” by the  Audubon Council of Illinois. The Bird City Network is a conservation program that brings people together to create healthier communities benefiting both...

Over this past growing season, JDCF staff have been tending to a plot of Indigenous corn, ‘Teejop Wicawas’, gifted to us by Bill Quackenbush, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer of the Ho-Chunk Nation. It is likely that varieties of this corn were grown...

Through a survey many of our members participated in in 2021, we learned that they would like to see our educational programming expand. The goal? To develop the next generation of conservation advocates who will protect and grow the outstanding land preservation and...

Driftless STEWARDSHIP initiative  Vision Statement: The Driftless Stewardship Initiative (DSI) believes that collaboration works and that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.  DSI works with public and private landowners to educate, train, and apply the...

With over 90 people in attendance, the Prescribed Fire Seminar and Art Exhibit on January 27th was a huge success. The Galena Center for the Arts proved to be a perfect venue for the art exhibit as well as the two-part seminar. In the first session, Gillian Moore,...

After a lengthy and rigorous application process, we received the good news that JDCF has been reaccredited by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission. The Commission is an independent program of the Land Trust Alliance and only awards accreditation status to land...