Indiana Grand Kankakee Marsh Restoration Project

ABOUT US

The IGKMRP was initiated to provide an avenue for willing partners to work together in an effort to put back some of what had been lost in the decades following the drainage of the marsh.

A coalition of conservationists, with many different reasons for wanting the grandness to return to the Kankakee River Basin, have joined in an effort that has resulted in an impressive set of accomplishments in the first years of its existence. Individuals, corporations, conservation groups, and government agencies have banded together and taken the first steps in a long-term program to re-establish the local heritage of the Grand Kankakee Marsh. The early successes have only been surpassed by the aspirations of seeing portions of this once great wetland system a reality again. Working within a realistic focus, the project management team operates under a well defined set of criteria in the direction set by the partners.