'99 grad leads River Bend Wild Land Trust

Eric Anderson has become the first executive director of the River Bend Wildland Trust. It manages the 100-acre Milan Bottoms and is working to restore its wetlands, prairie and river bottom hardwood forest. Anderson has been a volunteer and board member for the trust and was an organizer of the 2013 BioBlitz. He earned a B.A. in geology from Augustana in 1999 and a master's in geography in 2006 from Western Illinois University. Read more.