Earlier in the week, Fowler met with site superintendents and administrators from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to talk about improvements being made to southern
Illinois state parks. Fowler commended the group for their hard work, commitment and passion for serving the agency and working toward improving the region's numerous state parks.
We thank the
Illinois State Parks, the Forest Preserve Districts of Champaign, Cook, and Kane Counties, and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana for access to research sites; the University of Illinois, School of Veterinary Medicine, for necropsy work; Sana Davis and Barb O'Meara for bleeding instruction; the field crew, consisting at various times of Brett Amdor, Evette Vlach, Joe Heisinger, Sarah Yaremych, Jennifer Wise, and Bill Anderson; and Jeff Levengood, Richard Lampman, and Weidong Gu for critical review.