Cannot run scikit-image in Python 3.6

[newmanf]

Yes I agree it would be cleaner to have one Anaconda instantiation. However here is an example where only one Anaconda instantiation is invoked and the same errors occur

Error:
runfile('C:/Users/franc/Anaconda3_new/Lib/site-packages/PIL/hough_transform.py', wdir='C:/Users/franc/Anaconda3_new/Lib/site-packages/PIL')
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-61-268539df075b>", line 1, in <module>
    runfile('C:/Users/franc/Anaconda3_new/Lib/site-packages/PIL/hough_transform.py', wdir='C:/Users/franc/Anaconda3_new/Lib/site-packages/PIL')

  File "C:\Users\franc\Anaconda3_new\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 705, in runfile
    execfile(filename, namespace)

  File "C:\Users\franc\Anaconda3_new\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 102, in execfile
    exec(compile(f.read(), filename, 'exec'), namespace)

  File "C:/Users/franc/Anaconda3_new/Lib/site-packages/PIL/hough_transform.py", line 6, in <module>
    from skimage import data

  File "C:\Users\franc\Anaconda3_new\lib\site-packages\skimage\data\__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from ..io import imread, use_plugin

  File "C:\Users\franc\Anaconda3_new\lib\site-packages\skimage\io\__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from .manage_plugins import *

  File "C:\Users\franc\Anaconda3_new\lib\site-packages\skimage\io\manage_plugins.py", line 28, in <module>
    from .collection import imread_collection_wrapper

  File "C:\Users\franc\Anaconda3_new\lib\site-packages\skimage\io\collection.py", line 12, in <module>
    from PIL import Image

  File "C:\Users\franc\Anaconda3_new\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 56, in <module>
    from . import _imaging as core

ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

I believe it is in the module

from . import _imaging as core