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Illinois Wilderness
Federally Designated Wilderness Areas
Illinois has 7 federally designated Wilderness Areaslocated in the Shawnee National Forest. Together they represent over 27,000 acres that are protected in perpetuity from development, logging, mining, and motorized vehicles and equipment.
They are Clear Springs, Bald Knob, Panther Den, Burden Falls, Bay Creek, Lusk Creek, and Garden of the Gods (links to each area on map and navigation bar).
The Shawnee National Forest spans 287,000 acres (450 square miles) in southernmost Illinois from the Ohio River to the Mississippi River. Located at the convergence of five geological areas, the Shawnee contains abundant bilogical diversity found from the rugged terrain of the Ozark Hills, to the massive sandstone bluffs of the Shawnee Hills, to the gently rolling Cretatceous Hills.
Three additional areas. Camp Hutchins, Ripple Hollos, and Burke Branch, deserve Wilderness Protection, and the Illinois Wilderness Action Network is currently working on designation of Camp Hutchins Proposed Wilderness. Information about all three Proposed Wilderness Areas can be found on this web site.
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