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- Title: Turtles of Bond, Macoupin and Montgomery Counties, Illinois, 2006-2008 (Report)
- Author : Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 189 KB
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INTRODUCTION State law (515 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/1-150) directs the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to take all measures necessary for conservation of fish and aquatic life. This broad directive is refined by planning processes to identify long-term goals and actions needed to achieve them. The Illinois Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan and Strategy (Illinois Department of Natural Resources 2005) embodies recent planning efforts. It advocates long-term goals of understanding the distribution and abundance of reptile and amphibian populations with confidence and conducting sentinel monitoring to identify conservation needs (Illinois Department of Natural Resources 2005: p. 41). During 2006, our agency received a State Wildlife Grant (T-10-P) to pursue these goals by documenting occurrences of reptiles and amphibians, with an emphasis on aquatic turtles. One of the areas we targeted was south-central Illinois, where records of reptiles and amphibians are considered sparse compared to many parts of the state (Wilson 1999). During 2006-2008, we sampled lentic and lotic habitats for the presence of aquatic turtles in Bond, Macoupin, and Montgomery counties to better understand their distribution, status and relative use of aquatic resources in the area.
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