Source: Rockford Register Star, January 8, 2020
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Pecatonica Wetlands
Source: Rockford Register Star, August 16, 2019
Mississippi River Conference
Source: Rock River Times Sept. 5 – 11, 2012 Vol. 19 No. 46
Nygren Wetland Preserve
In 2000, Natural Land Institute purchased a 721 acre farm near Rockton
Raccoon Creek runs through property
restored to 100 acres of prairie, 150 acres of woodland, 450 acres of wetlands
Ill Dept of Natural Resources & U S Fish and Wildlife funded restoration of creek
Source: Northwest Quarterly magazine, Summer 2008, Vol 5, No 2