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Thank You Legacy PartnersSpecial thanks to our Legacy Partners for supporting Chicago Wilderness: Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD): MWRD protects the health and safety of the public in its service area, protects the quality of the water supply source (Lake Michigan), improves the quality of water in watercourses in its service area, protects businesses and homes from flood damages, and manages water as a vital resource for its service area. Chicago Wilderness Executive CouncilThe Chicago Wilderness Executive Council discusses issues of common interest across member organizations, and advises and approves strategies and workplan elements to meet our common goal to preserve, improve, and expand nature and quality of life throughout the region. Meetings are open to all Chicago Wilderness members. Chair: Arnold Randall, Forest Preserve District of Cook County At-Large Members of the 2018 Steering Committee
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods
Center for Humans and Nature
The Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Chicago Botanic Garden
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
Chicago Park District
Chicago Wilderness Corporate Council
Chicago Zoological Society/Brookfield Zoo
DePaul University, Environmental Science Program
The Field Museum
Forest Preserves of Cook County
Forest Preserve District of DuPage County
Forest Preserve District of Kane County
Forest Preserve District of Will County
Geosyntec
Hey and Associates
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Illinois Natural History Survey
Illinois Nature Preserves Commission
Kendall County Forest Preserve District
Lake County Forest Preserves (IL)
Liberty Prairie Foundation
McHenry County Conservation District
McHenry County Conservation Foundation
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
The Morton Arboretum
National Parks Conservation Association
Nicor Gas
The Nature Conservancy – Illinois
Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission
Openlands
Shirley Heinze Land Trust
Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter
University of Illinois at Chicago
US Army Corps of Engineers
US Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory
USDA Forest Service
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
USDI National Park Service/Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
The Wetlands Initiative Honorary Members Laurel Ross, Former Chicago Wilderness Chair
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