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The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is truly massive ... sparse when it comes to Indigenous life within the delta. The first French explorers noted various groups, including the Quinipissa, the Yakni-Chito ...
WWNO4d
Mississippi River loses most of its sediment—and land building ability—before reaching the Gulf
New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...
Travel + Leisure5mon
This Cruise Ship Sails the Mississippi River — With Spacious Suites, Great Restaurants, and Visits to Charming U.S. Small Towns
On an outdoor deck at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minnesota, a telescope rests with its lens facing toward a sandbar along the Mississippi River ... But this is the first time I ...
Politico11mon
Big River: Can the Mississippi build America again?
A photograph from 1937 depicts the original construction of Lock and Dam 25, on the upper Mississippi River near Winfield, Missouri. The first of these ... Lewis and Clark explorer duo who charted ...