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Our Quarterly Newsletters and Annual Reports
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The Flint Creek Watershed Partnership has a newsletter as well (1.2MB), describing their efforts in assessing and restoring the health of the Flint Creek in the Barrington area.

In 1993, a Flint Creek Greenway Plan, with interconnected hiking/biking trails, was proposed. There are three sections to this Barrington-area greenway proposal: Table of Contents and photos (3.6 MB), Plan (6.3 MB), and Maps (1.9 MB)
What Others Say About Us
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  • "Invention Nation" on the Science Channel (a series looking at the environmental contribution groups and individuals make) interviewed Tom Vanderpoel about our floating islands for a segment in their Dec 2007 "Dirt Rules" episode.
  • In July of 2007 "Chicago Tonight" on WTTW (Ch. 11 PBS) aired a segment, "America's Missing Birds", on the disappearance of some formerly common prairie birds, with several scenes of the prairie restoration at CFC's Grigsby Prairie and Spring Creek Forest Preserve. This was later repeated on the nationwide PBS Program, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" with a transcript available.
  • The Observer, in the UK described the city of Chicago and their trip in the fall of 2006 to Flint Creek Savanna
  • Barrington Hills has a 2005 article about our annual wildflower rescues and other conservation news.
  • Pioneer Press, Barrington Courier Review: CFC member Tom Vanderpoel honored by Chicago Wilderness, Dec. 2004.
  • CFC's role in the large (hundreds of acres) Spring Creek Forest Preserve restoration project, Sept. 2004
  • USA Weekend (an insert in various Sunday papers nationwide, including Chicago Tribune) had an article (June 2003) about organizations that save and protect wildflowers, and led off with an example from CFC. Unfortunately, that article was only in their print edition, there is no online link.
  • Chicago Wilderness articles include: Baker's Lake rookery revival and follow-up; volunteers, Greg LeFevre, and Waid and Tom Vanderpoel; and the 1999 return of Sandhill Cranes to Barrington.
  • The National Audubon Society had a large article about Sue Sullivan (and mentions a couple other CFC folks) describing the "citizen science" of frog monitoring.
  • The former "HOMETOWN Lake Zurich" magazine had a series of history articles. See what they wrote a few years ago about the founding of CFC and why we exist.
  • The EPA has an article about CFC and the Flint Creek restoration (in their EPA Success Stories section), in which CFC was heavily involved (it wasn't specifically stated, but several areas of improvement were in CFC's Flint Creek Savanna property).
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