NFWF Grant Profile

Build on landscape-scale habitat restoration at the U.S. Forest Service’s Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois by removing invasive trees and shrubs on a 1,321-acre tract in the Grant Creek Priority Watershed Area which shares a mile-long border with Midewin’s existing 1,200-acre bison pasture grassland complex. Project will greatly improve habitat connectivity and structure, reduce invasive pressure on existing bison pasture, and will facilitate a future prairie and wetland project.