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 a former ecologist at the Urban Stream Research Center at the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County. With over a decade of experience in natural sciences, he specialized in educating about native freshwater mussels, mussel propagation, and aquaculture. He earned a B.S. in zoology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.