BY STACY JAMES Prairie Rivers Network works with partners across the state to reduce water pollution from factory farms. Livestock waste pollutes Illinois’ water with disease-causing bacteria, antibiotics, ammonia, nitrates and algae blooms. In the most egregious cases, streams turn brown with raw sewage that kills all wildlife inhabitants. Pollution happens when waste storage structures […]
Press Release: Delayed Coal Ash Protections Put Public Health at Risk
PRESS RELEASE ISSUED: January 18, 2012 Contacts: Sandra Diaz, Appalachian Voices Diana Dascalu-Joffe, Chesapeake Climate Action Network Jared Saylor, Earthjustice Eric Schaeffer, Environmental Integrity Project Hartwell Carson, French Broad Riverkeeper Mary Love, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth Anne Hedges, Montana Environmental Information Center Barb Gottlieb, Physicians for Social Responsibility Traci Barkley, Prairie Rivers Network Sean Sarah, Sierra […]
Asian carp’s watershed moment
BY ROBERT HIRSCHFELD At this moment, there are countless Asian carp steadily making their way northward, swimming upstream throughout the Mississippi River basin, and encroaching into new territory in South Dakota, Minnesota, and most infamously, into the manmade canals on the outskirts of Chicago. These canals connect the Mississippi River basin with a jewel of […]
Action Alert: Starved Rock State Park Threatened by Proposed Sand Mine
Please contact LaSalle County Board members and tell them to protect Starved Rock by not permitting the sand mine. If you have time for just one call, the board chair is Jerry Hicks, 815-795-2608. A proposed sand mine adjacent to Starved Rock State Park could drain a rare, brackish wetland, with high quality plant communities […]
INTRODUCING THE BRUCE HANNON FRIENDS OF ILLINOIS RIVERS
BY ERIC FREYFOGLE, BOARD OF DIRECTORS Since its beginning in 1967, Prairie Rivers Network has been sustained by conservation-minded people who believe in its work enough to have invested in it. With private donations in hand, staff members have reached out to foundations for further support, multiplying the individual gifts. The resulting record speaks for […]