Des Plaines River Trail Still Carving Out Its Path Board Hires Firm to Build New Sections Near Lincolnshire
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By Russell Lissau Daily Herald Staff Writer  The already-small gap separating the northern and southern legs of Lake County's Des Plaines River Trail will shrink again this year.
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By BYRON ROHRIG, Courier & Press staff writer 464-7426 or rohrigb@courierpress.com  After changes to get the project within budget, the Parks Board awarded a contract Wednesday for construction of a new trail around the Garvin Park lake.
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By ANN GORMAN CORRESPONDENT  PETERSBURG - Six-year-old Marissa Pattie of Springfield stood Monday morning along the edge of the Sangamon River at Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site, skipping stones with her sisters and friends and waiting for her first glimpse of a flatboat.
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By Pat Kinney, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa  Sep. 9--EVANSDALE -- A recreational trail loop around Meyers Lake, some 15 years in the making, is now essentially complete.
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By Destin Log, Fla.  Sep. 23--Destin has already been down the road of harbor redevelopment, twice.
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By Sherri Drake / drake@commercialappealcom  The Meeman-Shelby Forest Trail Savers are thrilled to finally be getting their hands dirty.  The volunteer equestrians, who've worked for several years to get a new horse trail at the park, landed a state grant for the project last year.
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By Nancy Gaarder, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 16--Five finalists have been named for general manager of the Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District.
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By Paul Hammel, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Jan. 31--LINCOLN -- It's time for Punxsutawney Phil to share his moment  in the sun -- or shadow.   At least that's the goal of a Denver-based conservation group that wants  to make Feb.
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The Longwood Medical Area and the surrounding Fenway and Kenmore neighborhoods are set to get long-overdue transportation improvements, which should help the booming district grow and remain competitive.
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Clean-up continues with waters still rising in some areas.
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There's still work to do if the former Boise Cascade is to make its mark.
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By David Hendee, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 23--GRAND ISLAND, Neb. -- A plan for improving habitat for four rare wildlife species in the central Platte River hit a few bumps Friday in the prairie stream's broad, flat valley.
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By Lynn Bonner, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 13--A Senate committee agreed Tuesday that billboard owners should be allowed to cut more trees around their highway signs despite objections from two state agencies and environmental groups.
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By THOMAS B. LANGHORNE, Courier & Press staff writer (812) 464-7432 or langhornet@courierpress.com  A more beautiful Burkhardt Road is the goal of Vanderburgh County officials who launched a project Tuesday to spruce up the major shopping corridor on Evansville's East Side.
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By JUSTIN CARINCI  A path winds past ponds and under cone-bearing and leafy trees at Columbia Springs Environmental Education Center.  On a bleak April day, a fish hatchery squeezed between state Highway 14 and Southeast Evergreen Highway seems an unlikely place for natural beauty.
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By David Hendee, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 11--VALENTINE, Neb. -- Irrigation farming threatens to sap the Niobrara River, the state's premier canoeing stream, say state and federal agencies.
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By EVADNA BARTLETT  WINFIELD - Project planning to extend water to almost 60 families on Jim and Bee ridges above Buffalo is "right on track," an engineer told Putnam County commissioners.