. Critical trends assessment program : keeping an eye on Illinois habitats. Critial trends assessment program; Habitat conservation. to launch a greater effort to manage and restore these habitats to the statewide condition of reference sites. This may be a high goal to achieve but not an unrealistic one. Our recommendations are to: • promote more communication and coordina- tion among various natural resource agencies to provide a holistic approach to land management across Illinois. For example, in the case of forests, where large areas of habitat already exist, efforts to reduce poor loggin
. Critical trends assessment program : keeping an eye on Illinois habitats. Critial trends assessment program; Habitat conservation. to launch a greater effort to manage and restore these habitats to the statewide condition of reference sites. This may be a high goal to achieve but not an unrealistic one. Our recommendations are to: • promote more communication and coordina- tion among various natural resource agencies to provide a holistic approach to land management across Illinois. For example, in the case of forests, where large areas of habitat already exist, efforts to reduce poor logging methods (, clear cutting or over harvesting of trees) and strategic reforestation could easily increase the continuity of forest tracts and reduce canopy openings, and therefore signifi- cantly reduce fragmentation. This would provide additional nesting habitat to our most vulnerable birds, the habitat and area dependent species; • apply more resources toward educating the public concerning vegetation management in forests and the impact of exotic plant species; • stop the further drainage of isolated wetlands, re-establishing natural hydrological regimes, and. reduce introduced species, that often form mono- cultures, to enhance both plant and bird species; • facilitate the development of large grassland areas through various conservation programs and reduce invasion of trees and shrubs into these areas; this would provide tremendous benefit to area- dependent birds species; • protect and restore the areas that harbor our last remnants of prairie. If we are to preserve the diver- sity of plants, insects, and other animals of prairies we must preserve even the smallest of these areas. Development, destruction, and invasion by exotic species provide the main threats to prairies; • prohibit new channelization and reduce stream maintenance activities to improve stream habitat in the Grand Prairie Division and across Illinois; • finally, create wetlands to dampe
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