by patricklothian | Aug 19, 2022 | Blog
Ode to the Fisherman by Mark River Peoples When I was a young boy growing up, I was fortunate to experience both sides of the Mississippi River. Born in East St. Louis and later moving to North St. Louis County, I grew up fishing the banks of both sides of the River....
by patricklothian | Aug 11, 2022 | Blog
This Year’s Gulf Dead Zone Measurement Sparks Disappointment & Optimism – Here’s Why (Current extent of the 2022 hypoxic zone. Source: NOAA and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium) Spanning 6,334 square miles in 2021, an area larger than the state of...
by patricklothian | Aug 9, 2022 | Newsletter
Our Mississippi’s watershed (an area of land where all the water that falls in and drains to a common outlet) drains over 1.2 million acres. Unfortunately, by the time the River reaches the Gulf, it is sick, overburdened with pollution, and feeds the Gulf...
by patricklothian | Jul 22, 2022 | Blog, River Citizen Stories
Do we have a historic opportunity to help the River? Here’s what Virginia thinks… I was born and raised smack dab in the middle of the confluences of the Three Great Rivers, the Mississippi, the Illinois, and Missouri. I grew up a creek-walking,...
by patricklothian | Jul 22, 2022 | Blog, River Citizen Stories
Here’s why Dean thinks the natural world of the Mississippi River is in trouble…and what he’s doing about it When I was a college student in La Crosse, Wisconsin, I used to ride my bike down to the Mississippi and sit and think. Sometimes I sat and...
