New Years Day at Riverlands

 
Riverlands is the Corps of Engineers’ gift to birders. Actually, it’s Congress’s gift to birders. Congress required that the Corps mitigate acre for acre the wetlands lost to the construction of Lock and Dam #26 at Alton, Illinois. Riverlands is the largest and most accessible of several mitigation areas. It is, in essence, the overflow [...]

Measuring Water Quality–Upper Mississippi River, East Channel, Prairie du Chein, Wisconsin

East Channel: Prairie du Chien
Crawford County, Wisconsin

 
 
 
 
“In the Upper Mississippi, half-buried in silt and sand, are scattered congregations of naiad mussels. They are simple creatures, little more than two strong shells or ‘valves’ enclosing a soft, formless body. Blind and virtually brainless, they lie on the river bottom with shells agape, laved in the [...]