(http://www.nativehabitats.org/mwnat.htm)
Midwest Region, U.S.A.
Restoration entities for ecological restoration, including Volunteer opportunities

(this page updated June 21, 2005)

• Miscellaneous links to midwestern restoration sites
  Web:  http://userpages.chorus.net/burleigh/earth/vol.html
  
  
• Chicago Wilderness - A Regional Nature Preserve
  PO Box 268, Downers Grove, IL 60515-0268
  Phone:  (847) 677-2470
  Web:     www.chicagowilderness.org/
  Volunteer opportunities, events, biodiversity atlas, habitat restoration and much more.  "Comprising an archipelago of 200,000 acres of protected natural lands in the metropolitan region. It is the globally significant concentration of rare natural communities--the woodlands, forests, grasslands, streams and wetlands".
  
  
• Friends of Pheasant Branch
  PO Box 628242, Middleton WI 53562-628242
  Email:   pheasantbranch@charter.net
  Web:    www.pheasantbranch.org/
  "...organized to restore, preserve, and understand the value of conservancy land and other natural habitats in the Pheasant Branch Watershed for today . . . and tomorrow.  Volunteer opportunities, and much more...
  
  
• Illinois Prairie Restoration
  Meadowbrook Park
  Urbana-Champaign
  "....preserved and recreated pieces of both major landscapes that the pioneers saw more than a century ago."
  Web: http://www.prairienet.org/meadowbrook/
  
  
• Iowa Native Plant Society
  Web:  www.public.iastate.edu/~herbarium/inps/inpshome.htm
  "Preserving & Promoting Iowa's Native Flowers, Grasses, Sedges, Shrubs & Trees; Piecing Woodland, Wetland & Prairies Patches for Iowa's Future"
  
• Iowa Prairie Network
  "To Learn About, Teach About, Enjoy and Protect Iowa's Prairie Heritage. Our motto is, 'Prairies are our Rain Forests'. ... a grass-roots, volunteer, non-profit, organization that is dedicated to the preservation of Iowa's prairie heritage."
  Web:  www.iowaprairienetwork.org/
  
• Missouri Native Plant Society
  Web:  www.missouri.edu/~umo_herb/monps/
  "to promote the enjoyment, preservation, conservation, restoration, and study of the flora native to Missouri; to educate the public about the values of the beauty, diversity, and environmental importance of indigenous vegetation; and to publish related information."
  
• Wild Ones (Chapters throughout the U.S.  including the Midwest & beyond)
  Web:  http://www.for-wild.org/
  "... promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities. Wild Ones is a not-for-profit environmental education and advocacy organization."
  
  
  
• National (U.S.) sites that include resources for midwestern United States
• Restoration entities for other states & countries
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