JDCF has been having lots of visitors to our local preserves this summer.  In June, our IL State Representative, Tony McCombie, and IL State Senator, Andrew Chesney, accepted an invitation from JDCF’s Executive Director, Steve Barg, to spend a few hours on the land...

For the first time in its 62-year history, the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission (INPC), a division of the IL DNR, was addressed by a federally recognized tribe, the Ho-Chunk Nation (HCN). A proposal co-authored by staff members of JDCF and Bill Quackenbush, Tribal...