Published at: 7/2022
In August of 2021, Delta Institute released a report titled Conservation in Illinois: Hotspot Analysis and Implications for Program Design (https://bit.ly/illinois-hotspot) which identified conservation hotspots, defined as Illinois counties with high uptake of specific conservation programs, and evaluated the impact of relevant factors. Our team produced an interactive map (https://bit.ly/hotspot-map) of findings alongside this report. […] This document provides an overview of our team’s expanded findings. We have also included more in-depth analyses of agricultural conservation hotspots in Northeastern Illinois, specifically for Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will Counties.