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
Meet Your Neighbors: “Squirrels, Chucks and Chips”
Squirrels, Chucks and Chips by Jack MacRae Squirrels are the Fox Valley’s original “preppers.” Every autumn, both tree and ground squirrels spend... Read More
Meet Your Neighbors: “The Lives of Grass”
“The Lives of Grass” by Jack MacRae There are many grasses in the Fox River Valley; tall types, short types, native and... Read More
Doug Williamson – a Great Friend to the Fox
By Gary Swick Doug Williamson grew up in Indiana, and finished his high school career in Chicago. From there he headed to... Read More
Meet Your Neighbors: Rainbow Pride
Rainbow Pride By Jack MacRae In the early 1840s the Fox River was the site of an important icthyological discovery of which... Read More