Harry "Babe" Woodyard State Natural Area
Harry "Babe" Woodyard State Natural Area is a state park in Vermilion County, Illinois, near Georgetown. It covers about 1,104 acres (447 hectares) and is managed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The land includes part of the former Camp Cherokee Hills, a Boy Scouts of America site once owned by the Piankeshaw Council and later by the Prairielands Council before they merged in 1992. The state bought this land in 1996 to add to the Woodyard State Natural Area. The park is named after Harry Woodyard, a local farmer from Ridge Farm who served in the Illinois House and Senate from 1979 to 1996. The area is classified as IUCN Category V, a protected landscape/seascape.
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