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 […]
Asian Carp
Army Corps Strategy Puts Great Lakes at Risk
Prairie Rivers Network board member Clark Bullard has written op-eds for the Detroit Free Press and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Dr. Bullard characterizes the failure of the Army Corps of Engineers to deal with the threat of Asian carp as “playing biological Russian roulette with the Great Lakes.” From the Detroit Free Press, published July […]
Scientists Say Threat of Asian Carp Is Real, Imminent; Urge Separation
A group of distinguished Great Lakes and Mississippi River scientists have published a peer-reviewed, consensus paper detailing the grave and imminent threat of Asian carp to the Great Lakes and calling for separation of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins. The paper, titled “Aquatic Invasive Species Risks to the Great Lakes and Mississippi River […]
Secret Report Shows Army Corps’ Plan to Keep Out Carp Is Flawed; And They Knew It
As long as the Great Lakes and Mississippi basins remain connected by Chicago’s canal system, invasive species like Asian Carp and zebra mussels will continue to spread between the watersheds. While Prairie Rivers Network continues to press for a permanent solution, Asian carp keep swimming closer to Lake Michigan and the electric fence in the […]
Secret Army Corps report on Asian carp: How we secured its release
If you have been following the efforts to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes, you have probably heard the barge industry and state and federal agencies express confidence that the fish are being held back by the electric fence in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Prairie Rivers Network has been looking for […]
