Prairie Rivers Network celebrates 40 years of green activity
By Kirby Pringle
Sunday November 18, 2007
Robert K. O'Daniell
Eric Freyfogle stands on a bridge over the Saline Branch at Busey Woods in Urbana. Freyfogle and the Prairie Rivers Network are celebrating the organization's 40th anniversary.
For those who strive to save natural areas, one of the most-repeated battle cries is to save the Earth's beauty and splendor for our children and grandchildren.
For Patricia and Bruce Hannon, that really happened.
The Hannons were involved in an eight-year battle, from 1967 to 1975, to stop a proposed Army Corps of Engineers project that would have permanently flooded half of the University of Illinois' Robert Allerton Park. Another quarter of the park would have been turned into mud flats and occasionally flooded – that adds up to three-quarters of the park gone.
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