Meet Your Neighbors: The Duck with a Golden Eye
By Jack MacRae Goldeneyes don’t dabble. They are diving ducks with a talent of Olympic proportion. They’re synchronous divers. When feeding, all... Read More
Resolution 2018
Resolution 2018: Connect to Nature By Gary Swick It’s in the middle of the Friends of the Fox River’s mission statement; Connecting people... Read More
Are You a Friend Indeed?
By Gary Swick Everybody is in favor of protecting water quality aren’t they? Clean water ranks in the top 5 most important... Read More
Meet Your Neighbors: Happy Pines to All
By Jack MacRae December seems like an appropriate time to talk about evergreens. You see them growing on most landscaped properties in... Read More
Cruising for Visions
By Gary Mechanic, Executive Director Following the recent solar eclipse, Friends of the Fox River’s President Gary Swick drew a parallel in... Read More
Strategic Planning – Retreat to Advance
Strategic Planning Retreat – A Unifying Spirit By Gary Swick We all seem to have different methods of charting our courses. Some... Read More
Meet Antoinette White
Meet Antoinette White Aurora Outreach Educator Recent Monmouth College graduate Antoinette White is a welcome addition to our Fox River Monitoring Network.... Read More
Meet Your Neighbors: “Eat Your Neighbors!”
Eat Your Neighbors! By Jack MacRae Homer Simpson once commented that turkeys are the only animals smarter than man (season 13, episode... Read More
New Education Team
New Education Team for the Fall Season By Gary Swick For many years, Friends of the Fox River’s streams outreach education program... Read More
2017 Fox River Basin Survey
The 2017 IDNR Fox River Basin Survey By Steve Pescitelli, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Division of Fisheries During the summer of... Read More