Prairie Rivers UMR Current Newsletter

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Volume 1, Issue 1 - Winter 2007

Volume 1, Issue 2 - Spring 2007

Due to its importance, issue 2 was focused exclusively upon an UMR infrastructure program called the Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program or NESP, being considered in the 2007 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) . All of the articles discuss an aspect of this expensive, far-reaching and long-term program.

Volume 1, Issue 3 - Summer 2007 (2.3 MB, several maps are included)

Volume 2, Issue 1 - Winter 2008 (0.9 MB)

• More Corn, More Problems for the UMR? : Discusses the potential impacts to the Upper Mississippi River from increased corn production with the current ethanol boom.
• Upper Mississippi River Education: Reports on an UMR Educational Program being developed by PRN and three other organizations located in Madison County, IL.
• Ecological Economics: Proposes that conservationists and environmentalists might look into the discipline of Ecological Economics as an alternative to main stream economic theory when dealing with natural resource issues.
• River Wanderings: A venue for talking about interesting places we have found along or near the river that people may want to visit or re-visit. In this issue, Fort de Chartres State Historic Site and Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site.