vii List of Figures Figure 1 Fox River Watershed Map, Source: Friends of the Fox River ...................................................ix Figure 2 Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy is located in the Fox River Watershed, two miles due west of the river itself. Source: Google Maps .......................................................................................xi Figure 3 Jenni Shiavone during her float trip down the Fox River (2022). Source: Shaw Local. ............2 Figure 4 Denali, "the High One." Source: National Park Service ............................................................31 Figure 5 Quaternary Glaciation in Illinois, Source: Illinois State Geological Society ............................35 Figure 6 Evidence of Wisconsin Glaciation in Illinois. Source: Illinois State Geological Survey........36 Figure 7 Remnant of Thunderbird Effigy made by early Mound Builders. Source: Trail Run Project ............................................................................................................................................................................36 Figure 8 George Catlin, Discovery Dance, Sac and Fox (1835-1837). Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum......................................................................................................................................................37 Figure 9 Carte Geographique de La Nouvelle Franse (1612). Source: Smithsonian Museum of American History.............................................................................................................................................37 Figure 10 Combat between the Ojibwas and the Sacs and Foxes on Lake Superior. Source: Newberry Library Archives ............................................................................................................................38 Figure 11 Fox River in the early 1900s. Source: History on the Fox .......................................................38 Figure 12 Mooseheart, The School that Trains for Life, Mooseheart, Ill. Postcard (no date) .............39 Figure 13 Party poses with hunting and fishing equipment, Frank LeGros boathouse, Fox River Grove, IL, circa 1895. Source: Chicago Tribune .............................................................................................39 Figure 14 Joanna Garner fishes the Fox River near St. Charles, years after Emancipation. Source: St. Charles History Museum Archives................................................................................................................40 Figure 15 Two recreational fishermen enjoying a day on the Fox River catching largemouth bass (2022). Source: Troy Daum............................................................................................................................41 Figure 16 Freshwater mussel in the Fox River. Source: INHS Mollusk Collection ..............................41 Figure 17 Freshwater mussel used to make pearl buttons. Source: Illinois Department of Natural Resources ..........................................................................................................................................................42 Figure 18 River otter in Lake County, IL. Source: Lake County Forest Preserves................................42 Figure 19 River otter photo confirmation at a latrine site along Fox River (2017). Source: Lake County Forest Preserves .................................................................................................................................43 Figure 20 Invasive rusty crayfish. Source: Illinois Department of Natural Resources ..........................43 Figure 21 Invasive zebra mussels. Source: University of Minnesota .......................................................44 Figure 22 U.S. Fish and Wildlife (USFWS) personnel are surrounded by jumping silver carp on the Fox River in Illinois. Source: Ryan Haggerty, USFWS ..............................................................................44 Figure 23 Deer Population in North America (1450-2000) ......................................................................50 Figure 24 Locations of dams currently along the Fox River between McHenry and Dayton, Illinois. ............................................................................................................................................................................82 Figure 25 Emergency Rescues at Low Head Dams. Source: Wright Engineering.................................88 Figure 26 Coal Gas Company refuse along Fox River. Source: Vernon Derry collection ...................97 Figure 27 Parker Gristmill on the west bank of the Fox River, above Oswego, IL (approx. 1900). Source: Little White School Museum Collection ..................................................................................... 108
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