The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is the longest contiguous river refuge in the continental U.S., spanning 261 river miles from Wabasha, Minnesota to Rock Island ...

Barges wrap around bottomland forest in Pool 10 of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. The 240,000-acre refuge, which includes backwaters off the main river channel ...

Have you ever seen a tundra swan or a raft of canvasback ducks floating together? Opportunities to see these birds are rare in the Midwest — unless you visit the Upper Mississippi River National ...

A $10 million investment will fund seven projects aimed at making national wildlife refuge lands along the upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers more resilient to climate change, the U.S. Fish and ...

As rivers get older, they’re kind of like us, they change,” said Tim Miller, manager for the La Crosse district of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. A century ago ...

The Upper Mississippi River National Fish and Wildlife Refuge is among the nation's 10 most endangered refuges, a conservation group said today. The 10 wildlife preserves cited face some common ...

A portion of the line would run through the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge near Cassville, Wisconsin, north of Dubuque. The federal wildlife refuge is a haven for fish ...