Welcome to the Natural Land Institute!

For 51 years, the Natural Land Institute has helped residents of northern Illinois conserve the land they cherish. We are one of the oldest private conservation groups in the Midwest.

We are a member supported, nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving land and natural diversity for future generations. Since 1958, NLI has protected, managed, and restored more than 14,000 acres throughout Illinois and southern Wisconsin. These include prairies, forests, wetlands, and river corridors.

Serving as a regional land trust, the Institute accepts donations of properties, buys lands, manages natural areas, and helps landowners establish legal agreements that permanently limit harmful use and development.

Party on the Prairie is July 11 at 6:00 p.m. at the Nygren Wetland!


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Give a Gift That Lasts Forever!


Your family and friends will cherish a gift that helps keep northern Illinois a wonderful place to live - a membership with the Natural Land Institute!

A $35 gift membership includes:
  • a set of 10 beautiful notecards with photos of Nygren Wetland Preserve, Colman Dells Preserve, Burr Oak Valley Preserve and other natural areas the Natural Land Institute protects

  • NLI's new 52-page Guide to Natural Areas in Northern Illinois with maps and descriptions of 22 great places you will want to visit

  • four issues of our quarterly newsletter Land and Nature

  • the good feeling that comes with knowing sandhill cranes, grasshopper sparrows and river otters are still wild and free.


Click here to give a gift of membership!






 

Natural Land Institute
320 South Third Street
Rockford, IL 61104

Tel: 815/964-6666   Fax: 815/964-6661
General Info: nli@aol.com