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	Mackinaw, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mackinaw is named for the Mackinaw River, which is first mentioned in the journal of Patrick Kennedy in 1773 as the Little Michilimackinac River, and the name evolved to Mackinaw.
		Settlers probably found the area around Mackinaw geographically desirable for the same reasons the Indians did - nearness to water (the river) and general "lay of the land." For example, the highest point of elevation for many miles around is about 1 mile east of Mackinaw - near the entrance to Heritage Lake.
		The first jail of the county was erected in Mackinaw at a cost of $325.75, and was one of the strongest and most costly jails erected in Central Illinois at that time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mackinaw,_Illinois (1403 words)

	MACKINAW RIVER RRA, CENTRAL ILLINOIS, USA
		Significant portions of the Mackinaw River and some of its tributaries are considered outstanding aquatic resources in Illinois.
		The Mackinaw River is characterized by a series of pools and fast riffles flowing over predominantly sand and gravel substrate and by banks which are largely forested.
		Parklands Nature Preserve was established to protect a species of aquatic vegetation in the Mackinaw River and its surrounding forest.
	www.inhs.uiuc.edu /cwe/rra/site15.html (372 words)

	Mackinac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mackinaw or related spellings is the name of several different places and things, mostly related to the area where Lake Michigan meets Lake Huron.
		Mackinaw River, a tributary of the Illinois River
		There are also two Mackinaw sailboat races, the Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race and the Chicago to Mackinac Boat Race.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mackinaw (375 words)

	Mackinaw River Project
		His inquisitive and sensitive eye captures the roads, fields, and communities that border the river, and reflects on a pace of life which, like that of the river, is meandering yet punctuated by seasonal changes and celebrations.
		Kashian said his work relates to the flow of the river, the environment near it, the roads along it and the activities in the nearby communities.
		For Eaton, the idea of wrangling the Mackinaw River onto canvas has been a long time coming -- beginning with his childhood west of Peoria, in a landscape he calls "very similar to the Mackinaw." Meanwhile, his summers were spent playing the Mackinaw River itself.
	www.mcac.org /Exhibitions/mackinaw_river_project.htm (2014 words)

	Cutter Mackinaw Finishes Final Icebreaking Season
		The "Old Mackinaw" was locked though on March 13th in preparation for spring opening of the Soo Locks.
		Mackinaw found the ice from the locks up to the entrance of the St Mary's River (near Point Iroquois) very manageable.
		With the Katmai Bay handling the lower river, the Mackinaw and the three smaller ice breakers put the finishing touches on the track lines.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,93240,00.html (575 words)

	Untitled Document
		As a landowner residing along the Mackinaw River, she was a member of the original 16-member "Executive Committee" of the project, a member of the Watershed Planning Committee, a member of the Education Action team, and serves as the editor of a newsletter which is published quarterly.
		She presently serves as the Secretary of the newly incorporated "Mackinaw River Watershed Council", which is the landowner group associated with The Mackinaw River Partnership, and volunteers to lead group tours (especially canoeing ones) throughout the watershed.
		The Mackinaw River Partnership is a unique opportunity for agriculture, government, private organizations, and citizens to learn how the Mackinaw works, meet their neighbors up and down stream, and to have a voice in shaping the future of their river.
	www.wisconsinacademy.org /landethic/wb2.htm (2443 words)

	Mackinaw River Basin Critical Trends Assessment: PAge Fourteen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Mackinaw Basin is one of the sites.where the river otter is being reintroduced.
		River otters may once have been common in Illinois, but they began to disappear in the mid-1800s, and by 1900 they were no longer important to the fur trade.
		During April, 1996, 28 river otters (13 male, 15 female) were released in the Mackinaw River Basin.
	dnr.state.il.us /orep/c2000/assessments/mackinaw/page14.htm (603 words)

	IRintro
		In the 1800s, the bounty of the river was shared by all -- unlimited hunting for waterfowl and forbearing animals, harvesting mussels for a booming button industry, and carving out slabs of ice in winter for refrigeration.
		The Illinois River and its backwater areas occupy about one-third of the floodplain (105,000 acres), of which 47,000 acres are in state and federal ownership and 34,000 acres are owned by private sporting clubs.
		The Illinois River Strategy Team is committed to implementation of the plan and future evaluation of progress throughout the watershed of the Illinois River and its tributaries, from Chicago to Alton.
	www2.ic.edu /beal/IRintro2.html (2295 words)

	Mackinaw Canoe Club - News Items (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Mackinaw is a prairie stream which begins in Ford County (east-central Illinois) flowing through three glacial moraines in central Illinois before joining the Illinois River near Pekin.
		The members of the Mackinaw Canoe Club, local civic groups, commercial interests and others should provide the information we need to offer local and visiting paddlers the necessary details on access sites, travel and directions, eateries, overnight accommodations, liveries, equipment, and supplies.
		Since the Mackinaw Canoe Club and the Hoosier Canoe Club are both seeking an alternative source for insurance I suggest that you (George and Shirley) keep each other posted as to the potential companies to insure us.
	www.rivers-end.org /mcc/members/news.html (1760 words)

	Urban Design Scheme for Downtown Mackinaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Village of Mackinaw is a small village of approximately 1500 residents.
		The Village of Mackinaw is located in Tazewell County, which is between the two major cities of Peoria and Bloomington.
		Mackinaw is also located near the Mackinaw River, which is included in a group of environmental corridors which are areas that should be protected to preserve the County’s natural resources base and environmentally sensitive lands.
	cub.cso.uiuc.edu /~bdell/mack.html (613 words)

	Mackinaw
		The sidewheel steamer Mackinaw, built at the New York Navy Yard in 1863, was launched 22 April 1863, and commissioned at New York 23 April 1864, Comdr.
		Mackinaw joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, starting picket duty on the James River in May and remaining on the river for most of 1864.
		Transferred to the Wilmington blockade, Mackinaw chased a steamer 7 November and captured schooner Mary east of Charleston 3 December.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/m1/mackinaw.htm (192 words)

	Upper Mississippi < Subbasins & Gulf < Mississippi River Basin
		Approximately 52 percent of the nation's corn and 41 percent of the nation's soybean exports are carried on the Upper Mississippi River System, which includes the Illinois River.
		The average annual discharge on the Upper Mississippi River increases from 9,180 cubic feet per second (cfs) near St. Paul, Minnesota to 204,800 cfs at Thebes, Illinois.
		There are approximately 500 boat access points and marinas along the Upper Mississippi River between the headwaters in Minnesota and the confluence with the Ohio River in southern Illinois.
	www.epa.gov /msbasin/subbasins/upper/index.htm (645 words)

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		Data on TNC studies on the Mackinaw River was obtained from Maria Lemke and data on TNC studies on French Creek was obtained from Darran Crabtree.
		The Mackinaw data is still able to distinguish levels of anthropogenic impacts within its sampling method, but these relationships demonstrate the difficulties inherent in comparing the macroinvertebrate difference in cumulative taxa and related it back to anthropogenic stressor differences among the watersheds.
		The Mackinaw River has fewer than the maximum number of species expected probably because of multiple stressors (nutrients and sediments) related to the intensive agricultural setting of the watershed and also because of a trend of lower species richness from east to west within the Mississippi drainage (Hocutt and Wiley 1986).
	conserveonline.org /docs/2004/12/kellog.doc (5732 words)

	The Nature Conservancy in Illinois - The Cache River Wetlands: Grassy Slough
		Because of their rich biological variety, the wetlands of the Cache River have been designated as one of only 15 "Wetlands of International Importance." This designation from the Ramsar Convention of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ranks the Cache River with other important wetlands, such as the Florida Everglades.
		Water quality of the river has suffered greatly, due in part to soil erosion from cleared land in the watershed.
		The Cache River Joint Venture Program, a unique public-private partnership between the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ducks Unlimited and the Conservancy has established a goal of protecting and restoring a 60,000-acre wetland corridor along 50 miles of the Cache River.
	www.nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/illinois/preserves/art1124.html (840 words)

	DNR
		The Mackinaw River Project was coordinated by The Nature Conservancy and received Ecosystem Partnership designation on May 8th, 1996.
		The name Mackinaw was bestowed by early inhabitants, the Ojibways, and means turtle.
		Concern about the condition of the Mackinaw began in the 1950’s when the Mackinaw Valley Improvement Association (MVIA) was formed to deal with problems on the river.
	dnr.state.il.us /orep/c2000/ecosystem/partnerships/mackinaw/mack1.htm (309 words)

	National Watersheds: Mississippi River Basin
		The watershed drainage area of the Mississippi River Basin above the confluence with the Ohio River, excluding the Missouri River Basin, includes parts of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
		In the past, the Mississippi River was often the primary receptacle for the waste of millions of residents living along its shore.
		The organic waste that often accumulated in the stagnant pools formed by the locks and dams deprived the river of oxygen, killed large quantities of fish and limited recreational use of the river.
	wrc.iewatershed.com /index.php?pagename=ow_regionalWatersheds_07 (1072 words)

	Library Index Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Many river and watershed groups across the continent are selling products and services to raise funds and help spread the word about their cause.
		The t-shirts have MRBA's logo and a map of the Mississippi watershed, while the notecards depict 19th century photographs of the river.
		River Network, a national non-profit organization, offers consulting, publications, trainings and small grants to help people raise money, build organizations, and monitor and protect rivers and watersheds.
	www.rivernetwork.org /library/index.cfm?doc_id=190 (345 words)

	Mackinaw City. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Fort Michilimackinac W of town near base of bridge in Michilimackinac State Park.
		Mackinaw City was formerly linked with the Upper Peninsula only by car ferry.
		The completion of the Mackinac Straits Bridge (1957) now links the village with St. Ignace, on Upper Peninsula, to N. Passenger ferry to Mackinac Isl.
	www.bartleby.com /69/61/M00261.html (170 words)

	Midwestern Paddlesports Message Boards :: View topic - Mackinaw River Access Threatened/Closed
		He launched a canoe on the Mackinaw River and spent a few happy hours with his family paddling one of Illinois' finest streams.
		As the Thompsons hauled canoes out of the Mackinaw at the old Illinois Route 121 bridge northwest of Hopedale, an Illinois State Trooper approached and politely warned the group they were trespassing.
		What's certain is canoeists and anglers who plan to use the Mackinaw this summer may have to alter their itinerary.
	www.rivers-end.org /forum/viewtopic.php?t=28 (1213 words)

	C2000 FY04
		The primary goal of the dredging is to remove accumulated sediment from a 1.25 mile section of the Lower Cache River in order to restore deepwater fishery habitat, improve ecology of the river and recreational uses.
		The parcel is connected by the river to thousands of acres of habitat protected by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and DeKalb and Winnebago County Forest Preserve Districts.
		Many acres of the LaMoine River watershed have been enrolled in tree planting programs and a tree planter will ensure that the trees are planted in a timely manner.
	www.foxriverecosystem.org /c2000_fy04.htm (3212 words)

	Events at Dickson Mounds Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Members of the Mackinaw Valley Long Rifles Association provide a primitive encampment on the museum grounds during Fulton County's Spoon River Scenic Drive Weekends.
		In spring of 2002, painter Herb Eaton undertook a project to paint the landscapes along the Mackinaw River Valley.
		Simultaneously, photographer Ken Kashian was pursuing his own interest in the towns and farms situated along the Mackinaw River.
	museum.state.il.us /ismsites/dickson/events.htm (914 words)

	Mackinaw River State Fish and Wildlife Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mackinaw River State Fish and Wildlife Area is located along the Mackinaw River in northwest Tazewell County.
		This park’s 1,448 acres consist of hills, meadows, river bottoms, and timberland.
		Go south 3 miles and follow the signs to Mackinaw River State Fish and Wildlife Area.
	www.quincynet.com /illinoisparks/MackinawRiver.htm (136 words)

	Mackinaw River Valley Civil War Reenactors
		Mackinaw River Valley 19th Century Living Historians is affiliated with the
		We are reenactors and living historians devoted to researching, creating, and demonstrating accurate impressions of civilians from Central Illinois during the 19th century.
		There are several ways to get in touch with the Mackinaw River Valley 19th Century Living Historians.
	mysite.verizon.net /res1dbn8/mackinawrivervalleycivilwarreenactors/index.html (420 words)

	Pantagraph.com - Business - Focus on conservation
		LEXINGTON n To Tim Lindenbaum, the 250-acre rolling, wooded farm along the Mackinaw River represents one big Petri dish.
		Their work on the Franklin demonstration farm, as well as a paired wetlands study near Colfax and Anchor, aims to determine which land and water conservation practices along the Mackinaw River work best in terms of economics and public benefit.
		From F1 In the early 1990s, The Nature Conservancy became interested in the Mackinaw River and the 750,000 acres of farmland which drain into it.
	www.pantagraph.com /articles/2006/04/02/business/doc442f4dcc898de737463025.txt (1150 words)

	The Nature Conservancy in Illinois - The Mackinaw River Watershed
		Despite a decline in wildlife from pollution and habitat loss, the Mackinaw River watershed is one of the state's finest examples of a restorable watershed.
		Although the channelization of smaller tributaries has caused a severe loss of habitat at the Mackinaw River, you still can find the state-threatened slippershell mussel and the great blue heron here.
		If replicated in multiple river systems throughout the Upper Mississippi River Basin, the suggested conservation-oriented agricultural practices, in concert with other preservation and restoration activities, have the potential to significantly improve water quality throughout the Midwest.
	www.nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/illinois/preserves/art7559.html (335 words)

	sooeveningnews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Old Mackinaw, now 62 years old, will be making her last icebreaking sortie into the familiar upper river and Whitefish Bay ice.
		The new icebreaker Mackinaw is so far not scheduled to assist with the annual breakout project, called “Operation Taconite” in Coast Guard circles.
		New Mackinaw continues in a break-in and training mode until June, when she officially takes over for Old Mackinaw, due for retirement at the same time.
	www.sooeveningnews.com /articles/2006/03/15/news/news315.txt (671 words)

	Prairie River Network - Mackinaw
		The Prairie Rivers Network works to protect the rivers and streams of Illinois and to promote the health of watershed communiites.
		Issue: The Mackinaw River Watershed, a 1,100 square mile basin in central Illinois, holds some of the most diverse aquatic communities in the state.
		The major problem in the Mackinaw river is the high levels of sediment yield rates in the Illinois River basin.
	www.iwu.edu /~action/prnmackinaw.htm (111 words)

	Mackinaw Aldrich Hopewell Cache
		The Mackinaw- Aldrich Cache was discovered in 1916 by some boys hauling gravel from the side of a small hill at the edge of a bluff line on a farm owned by James Tyrrell.
		The site is located a quarter of a mile from the Mackinaw River and about two and a half miles northeast of the town of Mackinaw in Tazewell County, Illinois.
		People refer to this group of artifacts as the Mackinaw Cache after the area where they were found.
	lithiccastinglab.com /gallery-pages/2001marchmackinaw.htm (1394 words)

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