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2008 Calendar:

April 19: We are hosting a booth at Earth Day - Water: Keeping It Local 

May 17: Fox Rescue River Clean-up Day on Boone Creek in McHenry

May: Turtle Creek canoe trip

June 14: Nippersink canoe trip (Nippersink Creek is one of the finest streams in Illinois, and we are lucky that it runs through NE McHenry County.)

July: Kishwaukee canoe trip 

September 20: It's Our River Day in Algonquin

September 28: Fox River canoe trip

October 25: Make a Difference Day workday at Kishwaukee Headwater site.

December 16: Holiday party.

~Canoe trips are planned in conjunction with McHenry County Audubon~

Nippersink Creek Watershed Plan Update- Defenders is working with the Nippersink Creek Watershed Planning Committee and Watershed Resource Consultants to update the watershed plan that will help maintain the quality of the creek into the future.  

McHenry County Defenders Water Resources Protection Committee is busy tracking construction site erosion problems, proposals for new gravel pits and oil pipeline pump stations and developing a groundwater education presentation.  If you are interested in helping us protect the groundwater, rivers, lakes, creeks and wetlands of McHenry County, join us at our monthly meetings, usually on the third Tuesdays at 7 PM at the Defenders office. 

 
 

 

Environmental Defenders of McHenry County n 124 Cass Street, Suite 3 n Woodstock, Illinois 60098
815-338-0393 n  mcdef@owc.net