What you can ask
- “What does IL DNR Ecological Lands have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent IL DNR Ecological Lands records and put them in a table.”
- “What does IL DNR Ecological Lands cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
Illinois DNR ecological consultation parcels, Natural Area Inventory, Nature Preserves + Land/Water Reserves, and E&T species habitat via geoservices3.dnr.illinois.gov. 5 curated layers across ecocat + ecocatpro. - searchNaturePreserves ⭐ 740 INPC preserves + L/W reserves (McCune Sand Prairie LWR149, ...) - searchNaturalAreaInventory ⭐ 1.5K INAI sites (categories I-VII; Bohm Woods, ...) - searchEndangeredSpeciesHabitat ⭐ 5.3K E&T species polygons - searchEcoConsultations 217.5K parcels (8 PROGRAM values) §0: 6 of 10 root folders (Forestry, heritage, IRAP, LIDAR, OREP) are EMPTY. ecocatpro objectIdField=null but pagination works with explicit orderBy. Mangled fields — site name at MANAGED__6.
Connector ID il-dnr
Provenance
Freshness & coverage
› Methods (5)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
searchNaturePreserves
readIL Nature Preserves + Land/Water Reserves (~740). Filter siteName, managingAgency, minAcres, bbox.
Site name at MA_NAME; agency at MA_COM. No county column (use bbox).
searchNaturalAreaInventory
readIL Natural Area Inventory sites (~1.5K). Filter siteName, category (I-VII), minAcres.
INAI roman-numeral CATEGORIES ("I, III"). No county column (use bbox).
searchEndangeredSpeciesHabitat
readIL E&T species habitat polygons (~5.3K). Filter county, commonName, scientificName, elcode, bbox.
Mangled field names — common at COMMON_NAM, scientific at SCIENTIFIC.
searchEcoConsultations
readIL EcoCat consultation parcels (~217K). Filter county, program, city, applicantName, projectYear.
STATUS empty for all records; PROGRAM is the meaningful enum.
getServiceInfo
readSchema, counts, INAI category codes + program enums, §0 notes for any of 5 layers.