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QuickLinks
River Trips -- Big River's archived links to
people taking trips up and down the Mississippi
EPA Fish Consumption Advisories
Navigation
charts of the Upper Mississippi from the Corps of Engineers-
PDF download page
USGS
Aerial Photographs of the Upper Mississippi
The
Great Mississippi River Bridge Project on Flickr
Blogs about the Mississippi
River Talk by Pat Nunnally, of U of Minnesota. Perspectives on creating sustainable urban riverfronts in the 21st century.
Mississippi Valley Traveler by Dean Klinkenberg
The
River Landing by Tom Lerczak in Illinois
John A. Weeks III - Bridges of the Mississippi
Northeast-Midwest Institute's Mississippi River Basin Blog • Twitter
Education
Environmental
Education for Kids -- EEK (Wisconsin DNR)
Project Wild environmental education and wildlife-based conservation video
River
Studies Center, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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Museums
Mississippi River Gallery, Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul
National
Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium, Dubuque, Iowa
Winona (Minn.) County Historical Society
River
History Museum, Lansing, Iowa
Minnesota
Marine Art Museum,
Winona, Minn.
John
Deere Pavilion, Moline, Ill.
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People and boats up and down the river
Paddler and Mississippi River Guide John Ruskey on NPR.
Larsh Bristol Photography
Big River's list of websites
and blogs about people's 2015 trips up and down
the Mississippi
John Hartford
Chad Pregracke's River Cleanup - Living Lands and Waters
The
Floating Neutrinos -- the
Mississippi
River trip log
steamboats.org -
message board, information
Charlie
Maguire the Singing Ranger Rivertown
Julia Belle Swain (FB) pretty
paddlewheel out of La Crosse,
Wis. Being refurbished, and with luck, will start cruising again in 2017.
Antique Outboard Motor Club
Compass Locker --
Resource for towboat paraphernalia, gifts and collectibles
Publications
Born
by the River: People of the Mississippi River
Towns, Ron
Merchant, photographer
Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee (UMRCC) publications
A
River That Works and a Working River (pdf)
by the Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee
and the Audubon Upper Mississippi River Campaign
Discover! America's
Great River Road by Pat Middleton
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Recreation
Rock
Island, Ill., Army Corps recreation sites
Canoe Routes and Maps of the Upper Mississippi:
Paddling Iowa's Water Trails
Minn DNR canoe routes info
Minn
DNR map resources
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Federal Sites
Upper
Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge (Upper Miss)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service
Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge
Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
Effigy
Mounds National Monument
Thomas -
Library of Congress site to keep track of legislative bills
Reports, Water Quality, Research
Pools 5, 6 and 8 Drawdown Results (2001-2009)
Plant and animal life rebound on the Mississippi (2002-MPR)
USGS - Hypoxia in Gulf of Mexico
USGS Publications on Nutrients in the Mississippi River Basin and Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico
Fact Sheet: Landscape Ecology of the Upper Mississippi River System: Lessons learned, challenges and opportunities
Upper
Midwest Environmental Sciences Center -
Flood of 1993
USGS
Water Science Center, Minnesota
Fish Consumption Advisories
EPA Fish Consumption Advisories
Shipping on the River
Army
Corps of Engineers
New
Upper Mississippi Navigation Charts
Army Corps of Engineers-Rock
Island District - contacts, Mississippi River Project, Water Control Center
Army Corps of Engineers - St. Paul District
Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program (formerly the Upper
Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Navigation
Study
National
Rivers Hall of Fame
David Estrada, Towboat Captain
Waterways Council
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Wildlife
Book - Field Guide to Freshwater Mussels of the Midwest -
great mussel resource suggested by Marian Havlik of La Crosse, Wis., "the
mussel lady."
River ecology research
National Wildlife Health Center - mortality reports, dieoffs, animal welfare, NBS links
Fish and Fishing
Long Term Resource Monitering Program fisheries data - Graphical fish database browser
Frogs
A
Thousand Friends of Frogs
The Froggy Page
Birds
Army
Corps Eagle Watches (Rock Island District)
Richie Swanson Birds and fiction
Minnesota Ornithologist's Union
National
Eagle Center -- Wabasha, Minnesota
Raptor
Resource Project - Peregrine
Falcon recovery on the Mississippi
Wings Over Alma (Wisconsin)
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