Discovery Channel to feature ‘River Warriors’
EAST MOLINE – The Discovery Channel will air the program “River Warriors,” about the work the Living Lands and Waters crew does on the Mississippi River, at 8 p.m. Thursday.
“The Discovery Channel is airing our program after a documentary on the oil spill in the Gulf,” said Chad Pregracke, founder and president of LLW.
“The Discovery Channel did this to give people hope and a way to help out. I think we all feel so helpless when we see what’s happening down there. What we do up here eventually reaches the Gulf, so, we hope our program inspires people to get involved,” Pregracke said.
More information on the hourlong program, hosted by Mike Rowe, is available at http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-schedules/special.html?paid=1.14951.26200.0.0 online.
Living Lands and Waters is a nonprofit environmental organization headquartered in East Moline.
In addition to community river cleanups such as the annual “Great Mississippi River Cleanup,” which this year is June 19, LLW conducts educational workshops, the MillionTrees Project, the Riverbottom Forest Restoration and the Adopt-a-River Mile programs on the Mississippi and Illinois rivers.
Learn more about the group at livinglandsandwaters.org online.
