Models in St. Louis
No, not the sexy kind you find in magazines. Today’s blog is about the models that are being used by the Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District to make decisions about river management. Decisions...
View ArticleLevels of Service in Minneapolis
This week the St. Paul District of the Army Corps of Engineers announced they would “reduce the level of service” at Lower St. Anthony Falls Lock and Lock 1. And what does that mean? Every open lock in...
View ArticleSome Faces of the New Madrid Floodway
American Rivers and several of the Nicollet Island Coalition partners have asked the Environmental Protection Agency to veto the New Madrid Floodway levee project because it would destroy 75,000 acres...
View ArticleUpper St Anthony Falls Lock to Reopen for 2.5 Months
At the end of February, the St Paul District of the Army Corps of Engineers released their final environmental assessment for the closure of Upper St Anthony Falls Lock. Their decision: reopen the lock...
View ArticleDwindling Sightings of Homo Sapien Reformo Navigatio on Our Rivers
This post is by Brad Walker, Missouri Coalition for the Environment Our Upper Mississippi River landscape is replete with threatened and endangered species. This article is going to introduce you to...
View ArticleRestoring the Upper Mississippi River: Going beyond wilderness and wildlife
By Elliot Brinkman, Habitat Conservation Specialist, Prairie Rivers Network When thinking about the Upper Mississippi River’s past, we are often met with visions of natural bounty: of floodplain...
View ArticleProtecting People and Wildlife
By Melissa Samet, Senior Water Resources Counsel, National Wildlife Federation While operations and maintenance (or O&M) might not sound like something to be concerned about, it absolutely is....
View ArticleRolling on the River with the RRAT
Water Protection Network Manager, Marisa Escudero reflects on the difficulties balancing flood protection, ecosystem restoration, and navigation demands on the Mississippi River while aboard the U.S....
View ArticleGiving thanks
By Ken Lubinski, Retired, US Geological Survey Like many wannabe biologists, as an undergraduate my vague job dream was to be able to spend most of my time “in the field”. I always seemed to come home...
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2017 Civil Engineer’s Report Card Fraught with Errors
By Brad Walker, Missouri Coalition for the Environment The 2017 Infrastructure Report Card was recently released by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a cursory review leaves me to...
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