A big thank you to our Clean Water Fundraising Team that raised $7,790 and ran/walked 114.40 miles in 20 hours, 36 minutes, and 24 seconds during the 2017 Illinois Marathon race weekend in April.
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A Mysterious Discharge on the Middle Fork
April 27, 2017 | Blog Post
University and middle school students were canoeing on the Middle Fork this week on an educational field trip when they noticed something that seemed out of place. One of the small tributaries to the Middle Fork was flowing faster than any of the canoers had seen before, and it was flowing thick with milky white sediment. Upstream of this tributary, the water was perfectly clear, but downstream, the entire Middle Fork was cloudy and opaque.
RiverWeb News April 21, 2017
Read our RiverWeb News for April 21, 2017 with stories on the PRN Spring Newsletter, milkweed as the state wildflower and more.
Prairie River Notes – Spring 2017 Newsletter
Read Prairie Rivers Network’s 2017 Spring Newsletter, featuring articles on more than 50,000 acres of wetlands saved, Dynegy, and more.
A Day at Allerton
April 17, 2017 | Blog Post
Western chorus frogs, a red-tailed hawk, blue-grey gnatcatchers, and a common garter snake. There was a tufted titmouse, a towhee, and a red-headed woodpecker. These are just some of the animals I saw or heard last Saturday at Allerton Park.
PRN member and birder David Thomas, PRN board member Rob Kanter, and I left Champaign around 9 in the morning and headed west along Interstate 72. A short 30 or so minutes later, we arrived at the Allerton Park Music Barn for an outing.