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Land and Water Reserve Area
4
County
Hancock
Location
The site is in west central Hancock County within the Mississippi River bluffs just east of Warsaw and almost directly across the river form Keokuk, Iowa. Hamilton is 2.5 miles northeast and Macomb is 4.2 miles east. The site connects Cedar Glen Nature Preserve, Mississippi River Sand Hills Nature Preserve, and Crystal Glen Land and Water Reserve.
Description
Cedar Glen Land and Water Reserve lies within the Cedar Glen Kibbe Macrosite (Illinois Natural Areas Inventory #0565). The Cedar Glen Kibbe Macrosite is recognized for its high-quality natural communities including sand seep, sand hill prairie, limestone cliff-community, dry-mesic barren, dry barrens, and dry-mesic sand savanna. Most notably, it supports one of the largest concentrations of wintering Bald Eagles along the Mississippi River bordering Illinois. It also protects 500 animal species including 90 breeding birds, 37 mammals, 10 amphibians, 17 reptiles, 75 fish, 90 aquatic invertebrates, and 70 butterflies, as well as 720 vascular and 100 non-vascular plants. Cedar Glen Land and Water Reserve is within the Central Lowland Physiographic Province along the border between the Till Plains and the Dissected Till Plains sections. It consists primarily of successional fields on the former ridgetops with three intermittent streams (Cedar, Prairie, and Spring creeks) meandering through small portions of the site. The ravines leading to the three creeks contain dry-mesic savanna, dry upland woodland, dry-mesic upland forest, and mesic upland woodland. The reserve also provides essential severe weather roost habitat for Bald Eagle’s.
Ownership
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Natural Division
Glaciated Section of the Middle Mississippi Border Natural Division (#8a)
Registered
December 2004
Size
282 acres
Access
The site is open to the public. To the east, the Harrison Tract lies adjacent to Country Road 650E. South of Cedar Glen Nature Preserve, the Pfeiferling Tract and the Egley South Tract are both accessible by gravel goals leading north from Route 96.
Topographic Quad
Warsaw
For Further Information
Illinois Nature Preserves Commission
One Natural Resources Way
Springfield, IL 62702
217-785-8686
DNR.INPC@illinois.gov