PatchOps

Available tools

5 tools

Tool	Description
`searchNaturePreserves`	IL Nature Preserves + Land/Water Reserves (~740 polygons administered by INPC). Filter siteName (substring on MANAGED__6), managingAgency (MANAGED__7), minAcres (AREA_IN_ST), bbox, near. Returns INPC numbers, MA codes, total + in-state acres.
`searchNaturalAreaInventory`	IL Natural Area Inventory sites (~1.5K). Filter siteName, category (substring match, 'I' matches 'I, III' combined-category sites; INAI codes I=High-quality natural community, II=E&T habitat, III=Designated NP/LWR, IV=Geological, V=Aquatic, VI=Concentration, VII=Old growth), minAcres (PRIMARY_AR), bbox.
`searchEndangeredSpeciesHabitat`	IL E&T species habitat polygons (~5.3K). Filter commonName, scientificName, elcode (ELCODE_BCD prefix or substring), bbox. Mangled field names, handler reads COMMON_NAM and SCIENTIFIC.
`searchEcoConsultations`	IL EcoCat ecological consultation case parcels (~217K). Filter county (103 Title Case e.g. Cook / Lake / St. Clair / Cook), program (GIS Program / Interagency Review / ESCP / CERP / Permit Review / Transportation / Federal Review / Ecosystem), city, applicantName, projectYear, bbox. STATUS column empty, handler exposes PROGRAM as the enum.
`getServiceInfo`	Schema, record counts (live), max-page caps, INAI category codes + ecocat program enums, list of EMPTY root folders, §0 probe notes for any of the 5 curated layers.

About

Illinois Department of Natural Resources ecological lands data via the agency data services. Five curated layers from across the ecocat and ecocatpro folders: ecocat/ecocat_parcels layer 0 (~217,483 ecological consultation case parcels with PROGRAM enum: GIS Program 122,339 / Interagency Review 43,577 / ESCP 24,850 / CERP 12,784 / Permit Review 6,339 / Transportation 6,046 / Federal Review 1,289 / Ecosystem 25; 103 distinct counties led by Cook 16,737 / Will 8,892 / DuPage 8,148 / Lake 7,750 / Kane 5,450); ecocat/Ecocat_report_poly layer 0 (~49,581 natural-heritage project polygons); layer 3 (~1,515 Natural Area Inventory sites with INAI category codes I=High-quality natural community, II=E&T habitat, III=Designated nature preserve / land-water reserve, IV=Geological, V=Aquatic, VI=Concentration, VII=Old growth; sample sites Bohm Woods 121.92 ac "I, III" / Red Hills Woods / Big Creek Woods); layer 4 (~743 Nature Preserves plus Land/Water Reserves administered by INPC, e.g. McCune Sand Prairie LWR149 / Lost Creek Marsh / Degognia Canyon LWR / Wapello LWR); layer 2 (~5,302 Endangered/Threatened species habitat polygons). Section 0 surprises: 6 of 10 root-catalog folders (Forestry, heritage, IRAP_6_1_20, LIDAR, OREP, plus Wildlife/CWD-only) are empty post-Hub-migration, confirmed live during the Section 0 probe (the L2-A agent flagged this previously, validated). ecocatpro data services layers report objectIdField=null, but pagination works when orderByFields=OBJECTID is sent explicitly, so the handler always passes it. ecocatpro/4 (Nature Preserves) has mangled field names: site name lives at MANAGED__6 (with Ma_name as a duplicate), managing agency at MANAGED__7 (MA_COM duplicate), INPC number at INPC_NUMBE, MA code at MACODE_BCD. ecocatpro/2 (E&T Species) is similarly mangled: common name at COMMON_NAM, scientific at SCIENTIFIC, ELCODE at ELCODE_BCD. The ecocat_parcels STATUS column is empty for all 217K records, so the handler does not expose a status filter; PROGRAM is the meaningful enum. CRS is reported as null on ecocatpro layers but reprojects server-side regardless, across every layer. Last verified live 2026-05-08.

Requirements

Toggle on
Toggle on and use, no setup needed.

Setup

A few steps to connect your AI agents to IL DNR Ecological Lands.

Get started

1
Toggle Connector On
Open /mcp and enable IL DNR Ecological Lands with the toggle, no credentials needed.
2
Start Querying
Call searchNaturePreserves with siteName: 'sand prairie' to find INPC-managed prairie reserves, or searchNaturalAreaInventory with category: 'I' and minAcres: 50 for high-quality natural communities.

Connect to your AI assistant

Pick the tool your team uses for the exact setup steps.

1
Open Claude settings
Launch Claude, click the profile button (bottom left), and go to Settings.
2
Access connectors
Open the Connectors tab, scroll to the bottom, and click “Add custom connector”.
3
Name your connector
Enter any name you’d like for this connector.
4
Get the connector URL
Log in to PatchOps, open the /mcp page, and copy the connector URL you want to use.
5
Add the connector
Paste the URL into the “Remote MCP server URL” box and click Add.
6
Start using
Your IL DNR Ecological Lands connector is ready to use in Claude.