by patricklothian | Oct 19, 2022 | Blog
Impacts of climate change on the Mississippi Guest Blog By Dea Larsen Converse Communications Director, Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts From tourism to agriculture to biodiversity, the stretch of the Mississippi River that borders western Wisconsin is a...
by patricklothian | Oct 18, 2022 | Blog
Nearly 40 organizations unite for the “endangered” Mississippi River New Orleans, LA – Nearly 40 organizations representing all ten states that the Mississippi River flows through are gathering in New Orleans, LA this week as part of the Mississippi River Network’s...
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 | 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...
