Conservation

As a coordinator with The Nature Conservancy, Meredith Brown will oversee Women in Fire Fellows — opportunities aimed at training more women for jobs in wildland firefighting.

A central Illinois conservation group has acquired one of the few remaining remnants of Hill Prairie habitat in Illinois. It's called the "devil’s backbone," an old-time name for the jagged geography of the 55 acres near the Mackinaw River in Woodford County.

Curt Meine will visit Illinois State University on Thursday to deliver a lecture on conservation in a time of rapid social and environmental change.

A savanna restoration just off Normal’s Main Street could transform a long-forgotten space into an urban ecology showcase for Illinois State…

Conservation officials in Illinois are trying to overcome a near half-century of declining participation in hunting — that's because revenue raised from…