Today, thanks to diligent, long-term work to reduce pollution, protect wooded areas, and restore land along water bodies, the playful and very photogenic river otter is making a big comeback in Illinois! Watch this mother river otter as she pulls out onto bank to call for pups, Middle Fork of the Vermilion River (Wabash basin), […]
Holiday Happy Hour, December 7
Please join staff, board members, volunteers, partners, and friends for our quarterly Happy Hour. Where: Quality Bar in Champaign, 110 North Neil Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820 When: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. We’ll order pizza and toast to clean water and healthy rivers! Everyone is welcome!
Illinois coalition formed to stop Asian carp, protect and improve state’s waters
Prairie Rivers Network helps found Healthy Water Solutions to address need for waterway improvements to stop invasives More than a dozen Illinois organizations have announced the formation of a new coalition committed to stopping the two-way transfer of invasive species — including Asian carp — between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River basin. “Stopping […]
Industry Mine Operators Say Hundreds of Violations Haven’t Harmed the Environment, Grindstone Creek
Prairie Rivers Network has been working with residents and partners including the La Moine River Ecosystem Partnership, Sierra Club and Environmental Law and Policy Center for years to bring Springfield Coal Company to justice for their flagrant noncompliance and resulting environmental damage and pollution. This company is also trying to open two new mines in […]
Highlights from our 2012 Annual Dinner
2012 RIVER STEWARD BRENDA DILTS AND HUSBAND, RON DILTS MCKENZIE WAGNER, INC. – PRN gave a special, surprise, award to McKenzie Wagner, Inc. for donating their design expertise and resources over the past 5 years. TRACI BARKLEY, KIM KNOWLES, JEANNIE AUSTIN, RICHARD LAZARUS (KEYNOTE SPEAKER) ANNETTE CHINUGE, BETH ADAMS, HARV KOPLO, DANNYL DOLDER DANNEL MCCOLLUM […]