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

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

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 ...

The race is on to bring them back. More: What to know about floodplain forests, a struggling ecosystem on the Mississippi River Overall, forest cover along the stretch of the river from Minnesota down ...

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

It will also include trail improvements in Meeman Shelby Forest and Wolf River Harbor. The project isn’t expected to negatively impact navigation or flood mitigation on the Mississippi.

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.

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 ...