Friday,
February 22, 2008
Greetings
from FREP!
James "Pate" Philip State Park, 2050 W. Stearns Road, Bartlett Flyer-Invitation
NOTE: To help with lunch plans, please RSVP by March 5th to Becky Hoag, FREP Communications Manager, at 630/482-9157, or email her at foxriverinfo@comcast.net.
Agenda:
1. Introductions of speakers and legislators – and
we invite everyone present to introduce themselves so we can all learn
what communities, organizations, and businesses of the watershed are
represented.
2. Overview of FREP and our activities
3. Featured Speaker – Senator Linda Holmes
on Cool Cities Program
4.
Featured Speaker – Senator Pam Althoff on iSpace Initiative
5.
Remarks by Jack Darin, Director of the Illinois
Chapter of Sierra Club, updates on conservation issues and
legislation that Sierra Club is tracking locally, in Illinois, and
nationally.
6. Remarks by any other elected legislators, or their staff representative,
in attendance
7.
A question and answer period ends the program portion of the event,
where everyone can participate in the “conversation.”
A
light lunch buffet will then be served, where informal conversation
can continue.
Donations will be appreciated to help defray the cost of the
lunch.
This program is open to FREP members and the community.
This
event has been planned by the FREP Government Relations Committee: Jeff
Mengler, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service & John Church, University
of Illinois Extension, Co-chairs. Members: Paul
Anderson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Bill Donnell, Fox Valley Park
District; Sue Harney, Dundee Township; Karen Miller,
Kane County Development Department; Mary Ochsenschlager, Kane-DuPage Soil & Water
Conservation District Board; Cindy Skrukrud,
Friends of the Fox River & Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter; Katie
Parkhurst, Village of Algonquin; June Keibler, Dundee Township Park District;
Nancy Williamson, IDNR C2000 Ecosystem Administrator.
We
will meet in the small auditorium, located in the west, visitors’ side of
the building. The building is located on the north side of Stearns
Road, between the Fox River/Dunham Road and Rt. 59. Please
don’t go by Mapquest!
They place the address east of Rt. 59.
C2000 FY09 Grants - Reminder to those in the process of submitting a proposal, the online grant application deadline is: Friday, February 29, 2008.
Tuesday, April 22 at NIU's Prairie Stone Campus in Hoffman Estates.
Please mark you calendars and plan to attend this event co-sponsored by Chicago Wilderness and FREP. Watch the FREP Website and future Downstream E-Newsletters for details.
We are currently looking for sponsors for this event. If you are interested, please contact Becky Hoag.
April 2008 Noon Network -
Due to FREP's role in hosting the Linking Watersheds Conference in April - we are combining our Noon Network Program with the May Membership Meeting - and will hold this on Wednesday, May 17, 2008 1 PM Location TBA
June 18, 2008 - Nippersink Watershed Plan Meeting location TBA
CW
Small Grants due February 28, 2008
The Chicago Wilderness consortium is accepting proposals (generally not
to exceed $15,000) for its Small Grants program. Proposals are due by February
27. For more information, please see the Request for Proposals at http://www.chicagowilderness.org/members/repository/folders/index.cfm?folderid=63.
As an additional item of information, applicants
are encouraged to emphasize the community engagement aspects of their
project when relevant. For example, this could include highlighting
the expected number of communities served, communities impacted, or
citizens engaged.
For more information on the CW Small Grants application
process, please contact Chris Mulvaney at 847-242-6424 or cmulvaney@chicagowilderness.org
Wildlife
Preservation Fund Grants due
April 1, 2008: two
grant programs administered through the
IDNR Office of Resource Conservation Division of Natural Heritage. The
Illinois Wildlife Preservation Fund Small Project Program proposals
are open to all persons and may address many types of projects including
management, site inventories, education or special equipment purchases.
Examples of past projects include wildlife habitat improvement, species
enhancement, education and research projects throughout the state
focusing on species ranging from birds to turtles - and habitat ranging
from forests to prairies. Individual proposals are eligible for up to
$2,000 from the Wildlife Preservation Fund. Proposals are also being accepted
for the Illinois Wildlife Preservation
Fund Maintenance of Wildlife Rehabilitation Facilities That Take Care of
Threatened or Endangered Species Program.
Informatin at IDNR website:
http://dnr.state.il.us/grants/index.htm.
The packet is also available
by calling 217/782-2602 or by e-mail at DNR.SPECIALFUNDS@illinois.gov
Thursday, February 28, 2008, Fisherman's Inn, Elburn
Dinner & Progam featuring Don Roseboom, "Better Farms, Better Water" WEBSITE
New Tactics for Managing Natural Area Challenges
March 1, 2008, Lisle, IL 9 AM - Noon $35/27 -members Website Link
Thanks goes to Lisa Haderlein of The Land Conservancy of McHenry County for a great FREP Noon Network presentation Feb. 20 on Conservation Easements.
FREP Website "GREEN" Page - A new page has been created to provide links to GREEN resources. If you have any link suggestions, please email them to Becky
FREP Summit Resource CDs - There are still CDs available from the FREP Summit, packed with a lot of resource materials. To request one, please contact Becky.
Becky
Hoag,
Communications Manager, Fox River Ecosystem Partnership
630-482-9157
foxriverinfo@comcast.net Plese
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