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Join us again this year as we continue restoration.

Fox Rescue

We need everyone’s help to protect the Fox River and its tributaries. We invite you, your friends and family to pitch in at the Fox River Cleanups.We have various cleanup locations and dates available to suit all ages. Persons with hip waders, canoes, kayaks are extremely welcomed!

Upcoming Events

Saturday June 4, 2011 & Saturday August 13

Fox River in Oswego
Oswego ECO Commission
Leader: George Stenitzer 630-215-6751

 

Twice a year, PSC and friends clean up the Fox River in Montgomery and Oswego. Our car shift will be at 9:30 a.m. from the park on the west side of the Fox, downstream from the Montgomery Dam and upstream from the Mill Street bridge. You can sign up for the clean-up at: http://www.prairiestatecanoeists.org/trip-schedule.html

The ECO Commission of Oswego will award a $25 prize for the most unusual item retrieved from the river.  ECO will also serve volunteers a lunch at noon at Hudson Crossing Park (above the Washington Street/US 34 bridge).

We'll supply garbage bags, work gloves and "grabbers."

The attached photos show you how much we've achieved in past clean-ups and how great our volunteers are.  Hope to see you there!

Happy paddling

 

 

 

 

Keep Checking back, more information to come!

NOTE:

  • Friends of the Fox River will no longer be supplying water bottles to cleanups due to the environmental issues surrounding them. As an alternative, FOFR will supply a large cooler of water to refill your personal water bottle.
  • Friends of the Fox River's Fox Rescue cleanups are funded through a generous grant from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's SCALE grant program.
For information contact
Jenni Kempf at (815) 356 6605
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Fact Sheet

  • 1. In Illinois, 13 dams impede the Fox River’s flow.
  • 2. Most Fox River dams serve no purpose.
  • 3. Fox River dams do not “improve fishing.”
  • 4. River dams degrade water quality.

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