Saving Long Lake
By Gary Mechanic, Executive Director Late last year one of the final pages of a decades long battle to save Long Lake... Read More
“So Far So Good…Part 1”
By Art Malm, P.E., FOFR Director The Illinois State Water Survey and the Prairie Research Institute of the University of Illinois have... Read More
State of the Fox River Report
By Gary Swick This year’s State of the Fox River Report is a celebration of things gone well and progress that deserves... Read More
Tyler Creek Watershed Coalition
By Carl Missele, Treasurer TCWC The Tyler Creek Watershed Coalition (TCWC) was formed to initiate and manage the green infrastructure recommendations that... Read More
Pocahontas, PCBs and Reputation
By Art Malm, P.E., FOFR Director Recently I was at Disney World with my granddaughters who told Pocahontas how much they loved... Read More
Resolve to Be a Better Friend
By Gary Swick, President In December’s newsletter, I offered the Fox River’s holiday gift list. I also promised that I would suggest... Read More
Student Monitoring Season Wrap-up
By Meghan Yancey The fall water quality monitoring season has come to a successful end! This was my first season with Friends... Read More
Stardust, Mercury and Smallmouth Bass for Dinner
By FOFR Director Art Malm, P.E. Since I’ve received no dam questions this month I’ll take this opportunity to start a conversation... Read More
Who Drinks the Fox River?
By Kyla Jacobsen, FOFR Board Member Years ago, people settled and communities grew up along rivers. People and animals had access to... Read More
The Fox’s Formerly Phenomenal Filtering Freshwater Mussels
By Arthur Malm It has been 100 years since the passage of Illinois’ Sanitary District Act of 1917. That Act allowed voters... Read More