Partners and Volunteer Networks

It takes a network of caring individuals, groups, organizations, agencies, and partnerships to protect our natural resources.  Here is a list of some of our PARTNERS working to help build the capacity of local groups protecting their hometown rivers and streams:

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency,
Bureau of Water

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water

Illinois Lake Management Association (ILMA)

National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC)

The Morton Arboretum

VOLUNTEER NETWORKS IN ILLINOIS:

National Great Rivers Research and Education Center’s Illinois RiverWatch Network

The Illinois Paddling Council’s & Openland’s Illinois Water TrailKeepers (WTK)

Illinois EPA’s Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program (VLMP)

Openland’s StreamLeaders

Sierra Club’s Water Sentinels in Illinois

The Nature Conservancy’s Volunteer Stewardship Network (VSN)

Waterkeeper Alliance:

Quad Cities Waterkeepers of the Upper Mississippi River

St. Louis Confluence Riverkeeper

Wabash Riverkeeper

Chicagoland Environmental Network

Chicago Wilderness

Top photo:  PRN partnered with ILMA to host a Watershed Capacity Building Workshop Series.  From left to right are ILMA members Bryan Cross, Dennis Ross, Mary Lou Goodpaster, Meghan Oh, and Tom Ryan.   Amy Walkenbach with the Illinois EPA is pictured far right.  Our watershed workshop series was funded through an Illinois EPA and U.S. EPA CWA 319 grant.

Bottom photo:  PRN staff cleaning up a local creek next to our office.

updated – July 2011