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The Courage to Create Change: An Ike's Perceptions of Navigation Maintenance Policy
This is a big topic and is difficult to enter as my mind relives the ongoing controversies and confrontations around expanding commercial navigation dating back to the 1970s, building in intensity until the Corps released their draft navigation report during the late ‘90s…
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) …