Stewardship Services

Installation and Maintenance Services in the Illinois River Watershed in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

IRWP’s team offers a range of services focused on enhancing and sustaining nature-based infrastructure. We specialize in green infrastructure installations and maintenance, to support effective management of stormwater and improvement of urban landscapes.

Green Infrastructure Consultation, Installation and Stewardship

  • Site management plan development

  • Bioretention installation, including bioswales, rain gardens— depressed, vegetated channels receiving water

  • Detention basin maintenance and retrofits

  • Non-native/native and invasive species management

  • Species consultation for your project

Riparian Buffer and Forest Stand Improvement

  • Riparian revegetation

  • Timber management

  • Tree planting

  • Invasive Species Management

  • Prescribed Fire

Vegetation Management and Habitat Restoration & Improvement

  • Sites considered priority for watershed management

  • Prairies

  • Wetlands

  • Springs

  • Vegetation management plan development

  • Pollinator habitat and native plant installations, both urban and rural

  • Prairie savanna, glade and other native habitat types

What sites are a priority for Stewardship Services?

Cost Share Programs, Financial Assistance, may be available

  • One of our programs may be able to cost share 10-75% of project installation

  • See What We Do to learn more about our funding programs

  • Land adjacent to the creek, stream, or river (Riparian Corridor) along tributaries of the Illinois River

  • Wetlands, prairies, springs, and other karst features on public or private property

  • Shared green or open spaces (HOA/POA owned, or public)

  • Detention Ponds

  • Land in one of our Priority Subwatersheds as outlined in the Watershed Management Plan

Let’s work together

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To support the health of our entire watershed, we have to maintain dense, healthy vegetation in the headwaters.