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Biodiversity

Aquatic Biodiversity Investment Areas in the Great Lakes Basin:
Identification and Validations, Koonce, Minns, and Morrison,

July 1999   (1.28 MB)

Aquatic Plants and Fish, Washington State Lake Protection

Association (WSLPA), January 1999  (574 KB)

Atlas of Biodiversity, Chicago Wilderness, November 1999   (8.35 MB)Updated version, April 2011 (19.1 MB)

Best Practices Handbook On Roadside Vegetation Management, University of Minnesota, Center for Transportation Studies, September 2000  (2.53 MB)

Beyond Islands of Green: A Primer for Using Conservation Science
to Select and Design Community-Based Nature Reserves, Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service, 2005  (4.84 MB)

Biodiversity, E.O. Wilson, Harvard University, Editor; National
Academy of Sciences / Smithsonian Institution, 1988  (13.45 MB)

Biodiversity Coloring Book - The Amazing Variety of Plants & Animals in Lake County, Illinois, Lake County Forest Preserves, 2006  (2.32 MB)

Biodiversity Conservation Possibilities and Threat Assessment
for the Indiana Lake Michigan Coastal Management Program, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, March 2006   (2.89 MB)

Biodiversity Recovery Plan, Chicago Wilderness (1999)    (1.70 MB)

Biodiversity Values of Geographically Isolated Wetlands in the United States,  NatureServe, 2005  (1.85 MB)

Biodiversity Values of Geographically Isolated Wetlands in the United States - Appendices 1-8, NatureServe, 2005  (4.15 MB)

Biologically Significant Illinois Streams: An Evaluation of the Streams of Illinois Based on Aquatic Biodiversity: Part I - Text (DRAFT), Lawrence M. Page, Kevin S. Cummings, Christine A. Mayer, and Susan L. Post, Center for Biodiversity, Technical Report 1991(4), Illinois Natural History Survey, December 1991  (4.43 MB)

Biologically Significant Illinois Streams: An Evaluation of the Streams of Illinois Based on Aquatic Biodiversity: Part 2 - Atlas (DRAFT), Lawrence M. Page, Kevin S. Cummings, Christine A. Mayer, and Susan L. Post, Center for Biodiversity, Technical Report 1991(4), Illinois Natural History Survey, December 1991  (8.82 MB)

Calumet BioBlitz Species List With Sites (2002), Chicago Department of the Environment, 2010  (266 KB)

Chicago Nature And Wildlife Plan - 2006, Chicago Department of the Environment, 2006  (1.73 MB)

Chicago Nature Areas Directory - 2009, Chicago Department of the Environment, 2009  (15.92 MB)

Chicago Wilderness Green Infrastructure Vision - Final Report Chicago Wilderness, March 2004  (196 KB)

Communicating Biodiversity Workbook: The Chicago Wilderness
Workbook for Volunteers , Chicago Wilderness, 2006  (730 KB)

Dynamics of the Lake Michigan Food Web 1970–2000, Charles P. Madenjian, Gary L. Fahnenstiel, et al, March 2001  (459 KB)

Ecologically Rich Areas In Northwestern Indiana, USEPA Critical Ecosystems Team, June 1999  (293 KB)

Endangered By Sprawl: How Runaway Development Threatens America’s Wildlife, National Wildlife Federation, Smart Growth America, and NatureServe, ISBN 0-9711053-3-2, 2005  (1.48 MB)

Going Native: A Prairies Restoration Handbook For Minnesota

Landowners, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MDNR), 2005  (1.43 MB)

Great Lakes Conservation Blueprint for Aquatic Biodiversity (Vol. 1),

G.A. Wichert, K.E. Brodribb, B.L. Henson and C. Phair, 2005  (22.6 MB)

Illinois Biodiversity Basics, Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Chicago Wilderness, World Wildlife Fund, 1999  (7.69 MB)

Illinois Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan and Strategy,

Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), July 2005   (7.69 MB)

Illinois River National Wildlife and Fish Refuges Complex: Compre-hensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Assessment, United States Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), July 2004  (20.99 MB)

Illinois Threatened and Endangered Species List, Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), 2001  (178 KB)

Indiana's Biological Diversity: Strategies and Tools for Conservation, Environmental Law Institue (ELI), 1995   (11.24 MB)

Indiana Comprehensive Wildlife Strategy, Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), September 2006  (7.69 MB)

Lake Michigan Biodiversity Recovery Support Document, Lake Michigan Federation, 2000  (204 KB)

Planning For Biodiversity: Authorities in State Land Use Laws, Environmental Law Institute, Defenders of Wildlife, 2003  (3.42 MB)

Planning For Broad-Based Environmental Protection: A Look Back At the Chicago Wilderness Biodiversity Recovery Plan, Rebecca Coleen Retzlaff, September 2007  (204 KB)

Planning With Nature: Biodiversity Information In Action, Environ-mental Law Institute (ELI), 2003  (1.07 MB)

Planting The Seed: A Guide to Establishing Aquatic Plants, Environment Canada, February 2004  (311 KB)

Planting The Seed: A Guide to Establishing Prairie and Meadow
Communities in Southern Ontario, Environment Canada,

February 2004  (1.27 MB)

Protecting Biodiversity: Legal Mechanisms Concerning Access to and Compensation for the Use of Genetic Resources in the USA, Environmental Law Institute, 1998  (211 KB)

Rivers Of Life: Critical Watersheds For Protecting Freshwater Biodiversity, Nature Conservancy, Natural Heritage Programs, Association for Biodiversity Information, 1998  (7.44 MB)

State Of Our Chicago Wilderness: Report Card On The Ecological Health Of The Region, Chicago Wilderness, 2006  (730 KB)

Status, Trends, and Potential of Biological Communities of the Grand Calumet River Basin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago District, January 2005  (1.22 MB)

Status and Trends of Prey Fish Populations in Lake Michigan (2004), United States Geological Survey (USGS), Great Lakes Science Center, March 2005   (265 KB)

Status and Trends of Prey Fish Populations in Lake Michigan (2007), United States Geological Survey (USGS) , Great Lakes Science Center, March 2008   (281 KB)

Stream Restoration Inventory: Final Report, Prepared for Chicago Wilderness by the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC),
October 2002   (16.58 MB)

Understanding Calumet's Biodiversity, The Field Museum, Calumet Environmental Education Program, October 2003  (137 KB)

Will County Ecological Database Manual , Forest Preserve District of Will County, Illinois, January 2002   (4.26 MB)

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