NEW POSTINGS! Please note, we have posted a safety video and three new websites for all of the 23 dams on the Rock River, with some portage recommendations. We have also posted all the camping areas we could find in the 11 counties of the Rock River. Please e-mail us at frankschier@hotmail.com or Greg Farnham at waterdown@wildblue.net if you have any corrections or additions. Enjoy the Rock!
April 25, 2012
Media Contact: Frank Schier, Rock River Trail Initiative founder and chairman, (815) 670-6440
Editors: See attached press releases for more about tree distribution in respective counties.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Rock River Trail Initiative distributes free oak trees April 25-27
ROCKFORD, Ill. -- April 25-27, the Rock River Trail Initiative (RRTI) will be distributing free oak trees to the 11 counties along the Rock River.
Note from Rock River Trail Coordinator Greg Farnham:
Rock River Trail Initiative Council Members:
Attached is an article in last Thursday’s (March 8) Sauk Valley News about the Rock River Trail Initiative, a proposed River Action Group in the cities of Dixon, Rock Falls and Sterling, and mention of the new national water trails system established by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Note from Rock River Trail Coordinator Greg Farnham: This appears to be very relevant and welcome news for our efforts to establish a recreation water trail on the Rock River. Please read the release carefully as it describes a modification that has been made, presumably by the department secretary and not Congress, to the National Trails System Act to establish national water trails as a class of national recreation trails.
By Greg Farnham
RRTI Coordinator
By Greg Farnham
RRTI Coordinator
Progress continued at the end of 2011 to establish a recreation Rock River Water Trail and a scenic and historic Rock River Route.
By Greg Farnham
RRTI Coordinator
We are pleased to report good progress during November toward the objectives of establishing a recreational Rock River Water Trail and a scenic and historic Rock River Route.
Rockford City Council passed a resolution of support for the Rock River Trail Initiative (RRTI) at its Nov. 21 meeting at the request of the trail’s founder, The Rock River Times’ Editor & Publisher Frank Schier.
A trail initiative council has been established by the Rock River Trail Initiative, a public-private partnership in Illinois and Wisconsin whose mission is to develop along the river a multi-use trail of recreational, scenic and historic interest. Frank Schier, editor and publisher of The Rock River Times, Rockford, Ill., and founder of the trail initiative, and Greg Farnham, commissioner of Lake Sinissippi Improvement District, Hustisford, Wis., serve as coordinators of the Rock River Trail Initiative.
ROCK RIVER TRAIL INITIATIVE
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