Providing Water Quality and Wildlife Habitat is also available on the web site. The IDNR Wetlands program web site contains a lot of information about wetlands in Illinois, including identification, functions and value, research, status, and regulations. This page from the Know Your Watershed web site discusses wetlands and their role in watershed management. It includes links to state contacts, news, education, and other web sites. This division of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service which maintains computer databases including digitized wetlands data, on wetlands and deep water habitats in the United States.
Data is available on the Internet, and can be downloaded at no cost.
A joint effort of the Association for Biodiversity Information and the Natural Heritage Network, offers authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the United States and Canada. This U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service web site provides information on this program which was enacted in 1989. The act provides grant funding to support wetlands conservation activities. An Environmental Protection Agency brochure written for the general public on what wetlands are and why they are important. Visitors may also search the USGS NRWC library, and obtain information on interlibrary loan procedures.