January 24, 2022
District's Freshwater Mussels Help 3 Waterways
Ecologists at the DuPage Forest Preserve District’s Urban Stream Research Center successfully propagated and released 495 freshwater mussels in three different watersheds in 2021.
Joe Limpers
Joe Limpers is an ecologist at the Urban Stream Research Center at the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County. He brings more than 10 years of experience in natural sciences to teaching about native freshwater mussels, mussel propagation and aquaculture. He earned a B.S. in zoology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.