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Unique Qualities
Like the famous Nile River, the Kishwaukee flows south to north.
The Kishwaukee watershed is one of the three highest quality river systems in Illinois. Over sixty-five miles of the Piscasaw, Rush Creek, and the main branch of the Kishwaukee are class "A" streams. "[1]"
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Environmental Preservation
The Kishwaukee River Ecosystem Partnership, [2] founded in 1996, is an organization whose purpose is the continued preservation of the river's natural resources.
Its river valley is open oak woodland and prairie country on low undulating land; steeper topography occurs in the northern parts of Boone and Winnebago counties.
The northern branch of the Kishwaukee originates in Woodstock in McHenry County and flows in an east-west direction to Cherry Valley.
The archaeological data base for the KishwaukeeRiver basin indicates that the region was continuously occupied for the last 12,000 years.
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