Focal Region: Crossroads
Focal Landscape: Shawnee Hills, Kankakee and Illinois/Kaskaskia in Illinois and Missouri and Iowa Oaks and Ozark in Missouri
Overall Cost Estimate: $633,794 (NWTF contribution $69,394)
- Restore open woodlands
- Thin overstocked forested stands by up to 50 percent to restore healthy forest conditions
- Maintain park-like conditions post-harvest via prescribed fire
- Pay helicopter time for additional landscape-scale prescribed fires
- Increase USDA Forest Service capacity to do landscape-scale burning in Illinois and Missouri
Partners: Illinois Department of Natural Resources, the Shawnee and Mark Twain National Forests of the USDA Forest Service, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Missouri Department of Conservation and The Nature Conservancy