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Bumpy Road for the Federal Conservation on the Upper Mississippi Is Smoothing Out, Maybe.
Federal conservation efforts on the Upper Mississippi River faced major uncertainty in 2025 as proposed budget cuts threatened long-standing restoration and monitoring programs supported by the Izaak Walton League and its…
How Healthy is the Upper Mississippi River?
If you were asked the question, ‘how healthy is the Upper Mississippi River’, how would you answer it? Is the ‘health’ of the Upper Mississippi River getting better or worse? In this article, we describe the history of long term resource monitoring on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers (Upper Mississippi River System) …