Mountain communities in the heart of Appalachia are engaged in a high stakes fight to save their land, water and way of life from mountaintop removal coal mining. Join us on Wednesday, October 19th at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign YMCA at 7:30pm when Appalachian Voices comes to Champaign. Appalachian Voices is an award-winning, environmental […]
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Making Friends in Big Bureau Watershed
Prairie Rivers Network is one of the Friends of Big Bureau Creek Watershed. This multi-stakeholder group is devoted to reducing sediment and nutrient pollution in Big Bureau Creek and its tributaries in north-central Illinois. The Friends consists of government agencies, non-profit organizations, and businesses working together to increase conservation on farmland in the highly agricultural […]
Critical Vote on Coal Ash Pollution — Updated
***UPDATE 10/14/2011*** This afternoon H.R. 2273 passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 267-144. Illinois Representatives who voted to take away EPA’s ability to implement commonsense safeguards to protect communities and their waters from coal ash pollution include: Rep. Peter Roskam (R. 6th) Rep. Joe Walsh (R. 8th) Rep. Robert Dold (R. 10th) […]
Our Priorities for the 2012 Farm Bill
The Farm Bill is a massive piece of federal legislation that is reviewed and reauthorized approximately every 5 years. It includes government programs for nutrition, rural development, energy, agricultural production, and conservation. Prairie Rivers Network seeks to influence the Farm Bill because it contains agricultural conservation programs that improve water quality. These programs have produced […]
Eating Asian carp is a great idea, but nothing like a “solution.”
Robert Hirschfeld Coalition Organizer – Invasive Species Prairie Rivers Network by Robert Hirschfeld, Coalition Organizer – Invasive Species In the three weeks since the Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced its plan to fight hunger and Asian carp in one fell swoop, my Asian carp twitter feed has seen more action than in the previous two […]
