Illinois signs pact with USDA Forest Servie
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The Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the USDA Forest Service on Tuesday signed an Agreement for Shared Stewardship. The pact includes Pere Marquette State Park.
GRAFTON The Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the USDA Forest Service on Tuesday signed an Agreement for Shared Stewardship, strengthening their commitment to collaborative land management efforts throughout the state.
Signatories on the agreement were Colleen Callahan, Director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, and Vicki Christiansen, Chief of the USDA Forest Service. The agreement establishes a framework to allow the state and the Forest Service to work collaboratively on forest management, accomplishing mutual goals, furthering common interests and effectively responding to the increasing suite of challenges facing the communities, landscapes and natural resources in Illinois.
Updated 1/5/2021 6:57 PM
St. Charles officials plan no changes to the city s policy on handling the nuisance of the local deer population.
Police Chief James Keegan and City Administrator Mark Koenen researched deer management in response to a complaint from a resident who lives in the Timbers subdivision northwest of the corner of routes 64 and 31. Molly Zacker spoke at the Dec. 7 city council meeting about the damage to her yard caused by deer and the driving hazards created as they cross the nearby streets.
Keegan told aldermen at Monday s government operations committee meeting that between 2018 and 2020, police responded to about 1,000 annual vehicle accidents, with five or fewer each year caused by deer. However, he noted that all three 2020 accidents involving deer occurred in the Route 31 corridor mentioned by Zacker.
MOLLY PARKER
The Southern
MURPHYSBORO â Mike Mills, who died this week at the age of 79, didnât set out to seed a love of barbecue across the country, well beyond its roots in the South and parts of the Midwest, but thatâs what he ended up doing. After graduating from Murphysboro Township High School in 1959, he enrolled in the first class in the Dental Technology program at Southern Illinois University.
He earned an associateâs degree and moved to Elgin to work in a lab there. After learning the trade, he returned home and founded the Murphysboro Dental Lab. It produced crowns and dental prosthetics for nearly 60 years on 14th Street until it closed in 2019, making it one of longest continuously running businesses in Murphysboro.
On Saturday, Jan. 9, join the "In Search of Eagles" event in the morning, followed by a virtual program, "Eagles and Osprey, Back from the Brink" during the afternoon.
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Dylan Suttles, dylan.suttles@thetelegraph.com
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