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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has temporarily closed Emiquon Preserve due to Avian Influenza virus being found in one of several ...

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When engineers reversed the flow of the Chicago River in 1900, sending the city’s sewage and related waste away from residents’ Lake Michigan drinking water, the metropolis was spared a future of ...

The Emiquon Preserve near Havana is in its 20th year. When the Nature Conservancy bought the property then it was farmland that regularly flooded. Now it has been returned to an enormous wetlands with ...

[imgbelt img=IMG_2883-Emiquon-Cr.jpg]The largest reclamation area in the United States outside the Everglades can be found an hour south of Peoria. Sunrise over the Emiquon Preserve in October, 2010.

Those of us who have lived our lives in the Heartland love the farm fields, great soil and flat land. My buddies who visit here from other parts of the country can’t believe just how flat it is. I ...

The Nature Conservancy’s Emiquon Preserve celebrates 25 years of the floodplane restoration project. The 25-year-old Emiquon Preserve stands as one of the Midwest’s largest floodplane restoration ...