FREP Noon Network – Bats of the Fox River Valley by Tara Hohoff
Prairieview Education Center 2112 Behan Road, Crystal Lake, IL, United StatesLocation: Virtually on Zoom -- email to request Zoom link: info@foxriverecosystem.org Program: Tara Hohoff is a bat biologist with the Illinois Natural History Survey. Tara co-leads the Illinois Bat Conservation Program which conducts statewide bat surveys using an array of techniques including mist netting, acoustics, emergence counts and genetic sampling. All About Bats of Illinois will cover the local ... Read more
State of the Fox River
Schweitzer Environmental Center 16N900 Sleepy Hollow Road in West Dundee., West Dundee, Illinois, United StatesGary Swick, president of Friends of the Fox River will present an entertaining and informative look at the health of the Fox River Watershed. Join Gary to examine the upcoming dam removal and continuing threats: development projects on prime farmlands, ecologically sensitive areas, and downtown riverfronts. What’s happening throughout the watershed will surprise and amaze ... Read more
“Raising Kane” Group Read & Discussion
Join us in reading the autobiography of The FOX (an American schoolteacher and environmental activist who became known in the Chicago area during the 1960s for his environmental direct action under the pseudonym The FOX). The FOX executed "stunts" that successfully brought media attention to the severe pollution of the Fox River in the 1960s that was killing wildlife and threatening human ... Read more
Down to the Creek
In their Fourth Annual winter series with the Gail Borden Library, Greater Kane County Wild Ones Start in Your Yard initiative invited a panel of experts to help us find out where the water from your land goes. See why the decisions about what we do on our land are important far beyond our own ... Read more
River Trippin’ with Jenni
Baker Community Center, 101 S. Second St, St. Charles, IL 101 S. Second St, St. Charles, Illinois, United StatesRiver Corridor Foundation of St. Charles' series: A River Flows Through It... Life in the Fox River Valley Join Jenni Kempf Schiavone, the Director of Education Programs Operations at the Baker Community Center, 101 S. Second St, St. Charles, IL for a photo and video journey along her full-length Fox River paddle. Jenni had always ... Read more
