Mike Valley's (Nov. 30, 1A) observation that "there wouldn't be more than two" out of 50 "kids" today who could "'clean any fish out of the river'" tells the story of conservation. A fisherperson ...

While some states might experience a dearth of fish consumption advisories, Wisconsin’s are more extensive – and complicated. In Mississippi River Pool 9, which spans the length from Genoa ...

The Mississippi River touches 31 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces and is one of the largest rivers in the world. ... marked the Mississippi River as the western border of the new nation.

For the first time, Minnesota will study the health of the state’s entire stretch of the Mississippi River, from its headwaters near Bemidji to the bluff country where it enters Iowa. The ...

The Mississippi River basin, which includes 32 states and two Canadian provinces, produces 92% of the nation’s agricultural exports and 78% of the world’s exports in feed grains and soybeans.

The Mississippi, which flows over 2,000 miles, has a long history in the United States, from being the western border to then becoming the middle marker after the Louisiana Purchase. The river ...

The Mississippi River Restoration and Resilience Initiative, nicknamed MRRRI, is meant to create a holistic program for the river — which touches 10 states — that would catalog its problems ...

It was an opinion handed down by the United States Supreme Court in 1918 that attempted to permanently set the border between Tennessee and Arkansas along the Mississippi River. The two states ...

Send Mississippi River water to southwestern ... located along the Mississippi River near the state’s Iowa border. ... State funders criticize pace and progress on $2.7 billion plan to build new ...

The Great River Road, which follows the Mississippi River along Wisconsin’s western border, is a scenic drive any time of year, winding past forested bluffs in the state’s hilly Driftless Region.

You've probably heard of the Great River Road — the scenic byway that runs along the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans — and maybe you've driven along Wisconsin's 200-plus mile ...