For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their ...

Environmentalists have come out against a potential bridge corridor that would bisect and partially destroy a primeval ...

For the past few decades, the trees that grow in the Mississippi River floodplain ... of which is particularly well-suited to the floodplain forest. And the numbers he puts up are impressive ...

To John Ruskey, the Mississippi River is “a creative force” that sculpts the landscape and rejuvenates the people who ...

An April report by a nonprofit environmental advocacy group named the Mississippi River as the most endangered in the United ...

The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge protects over 240,000 acres across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. It’s one of the largest blocks of floodplain forest ...

For the past few decades, the trees that grow in the Mississippi River floodplain ... of which is particularly well-suited to the floodplain forest. And the numbers he puts up are impressive ...

Laura Comeaux’s rubber boots squelched in the mire as she trekked through her family land, 128 acres of intermittently flooding forest situated on a sharp bend in the Mississippi River.