Sign up for RiverWeb to have monthly updates emailed to you. In this edition: Otters making a comeback Protect the Illinois River Healthy Water Solutions Recent webposts and press Holiday Happy Hour, December 7
Press Release: Illinois DNR Grants Permit To Controversial Starved Rock Open Pit Mine
Park Advocates Vow To Continue Fight to Protect “One of Illinois’ Most Special Places” The Illinois Department of Natural Resources Office of Mines and Minerals (IDNR – OMM) has given the go-ahead to a controversial open pit mine next to Starved Rock State Park in LaSalle County, despite objections from local residents and thousands of […]
Otters are making a big comeback in Illinois!
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 […]
