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A plan to shield the Great Lakes from invasive carp needs Illinois backing. What's the delay?
Gannett via AOL· 37 minutes agoFrom there, invasive carp could make their way from the Mississippi River to Lake Michigan. The...
How the Mississippi backwaters were almost drained — 100 years of conservation on the refuge
La Crosse Tribune· 23 hours agoIn a testament to conservation efforts, the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge Act,...
Could the Mississippi River benefit from Chesapeake Bay’s strategy to improve water quality?
The Gazette· 8 hours agoDespite the program’s best efforts, the region has missed two deadlines for nitrogen and phosphorus...
A UW-Madison study mapped millions of acres of abandoned U.S. farmland. Here's why it matters.
Gannett via AOL· 39 minutes agoThe data is publicly available, and Lark said he hopes it will be helpful to municipalities that are evaluating land use and to researchers looking into other questions about renewable energy ...
Not just a Gulf problem: Mississippi River farm runoff pollutes upstream waters
The Gazette· 8 hours agoUpstream communities are starting to see costs of the Gulf’s dead zone problem as their own drinking...
At the mouth of the Mississippi, Louisiana bears the burden of upstream runoff. Why doesn’t it push...
The Gazette· 8 hours agoThe Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force was created in 1997 to address the “dead zone” -- an area...
Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula is an untapped gem for smallmouth - Outdoor News
Outdoor News· 1 hour agoWhile there are many great smallmouth bass waters in the Keweenaw area, Baccus has a few favorites.
Pollution from East Palestine derailment last year spread as far as Wisconsin, study finds
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 35 minutes agoMadeline Heim is a Report for America corps reporter who writes about environmental issues in the Mississippi River watershed and across Wisconsin. Contact ...
Flood watch: St. Paul closing roads, Stillwater holding emergency meeting as more rain forecast
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoWith a weather forecast soaked with yet more showers and storms through Saturday, the Twin Cities is...
USGS deploys monitoring devices to study sediment in Mississippi River near Clinton
Quad-City Times· 2 days agoFederal agencies hope to understand more about sediment in the Mississippi River with a new...