On Wednesday, February 18, 2009, the Illinois Lake Management Association in partnership with Prairie Rivers Network will be hosting a workshop from 1:00-5:00 PM at the Pẻre Marquette Hotel in Peoria. Agencies will present information about grant programs available to fund lake and watershed projects. {Continue Reading »}
On October 10th, in collaboration with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Illinois Lake Management Association, Tetra Tech Inc., Hydrolab/Hach Environmental, and Prairie Rivers Network held a forum about building the technical capacity of people and groups working to protect Illinois’ rivers and streams. {Continue Reading »}
Prairie Rivers Network partnered with Illinois EPA, U.S. EPA, Hach Environmental, the Illinois Lake Management Association, and Tetra Tech, Inc. in order to provide a broad-based forum that will help formalize a strategy for capacity building among watershed stakeholders in Illinois.
Below is some information from the Workshop and Forum Discussion that was held on 10/10/2008 at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield.
View workshop goals.
View Power Point presentations from the workshop below:
View the USEPA Social Indicators Handbook.
View the Workshop Presenters’ Bios.
View the Preliminary Survey Results.
View comments and a summary of the workshop.
Read about the upcoming workshop on February 18, 2009.
For more information, contact Kim Erndt at
kerndt@prairierivers.org or (217) 344-2371
