The Upper Mississippi Eduction Program held its fourth successful field trip for 60 Illinois high school students. Students started the day with a tour of the dam at the Melvin Price Locks & Dam/National Great Rivers Museum and then participated in a Team Building exercise. The afternoon was spent at Principia College in Jersey County, Illinois, where the students worked together to develop possible solutions to some of the UMR’s most difficult environmental problems with the assistance of local river experts and college student facilitators.

Some of the creative solutions that the students came up with to deal with the Asian Carp issue included using a combination of biological or chemical controls, community fishing contests up and down the river on certain days and developing processing plants for animal feed or export. After the session students toured the campus UMR overlook.

View photos from the trip.