Robert Hirschfeld Coalition Organizer – Invasive Species Prairie Rivers Network by Robert Hirschfeld, Coalition Organizer – Invasive Species In the three weeks since the Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced its plan to fight hunger and Asian carp in one fell swoop, my Asian carp twitter feed has seen more action than in the previous two […]
Mississippi River
Chicago and Mississippi Rivers Make List of “America’s Most Endangered Rivers”
American Rivers, a national river conservation organization, named both the Chicago and Mississippi Rivers in its 2011 “America’s Most Endangered Rivers” report issued earlier this week. The list “…is a call to action for rivers at a crossroads, whose fates will be determined in the coming year.” For the Chicago River, the report highlights the 1.2 […]
Making Room for Rivers
Some thoughts on blasting a levee to restore a floodplain On May 2, 2011, websites and newspapers across the nation featured the image of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ blasting a levee to activate the Mississippi River’s New Madrid Floodway, located between the borders of southern Illinois and Missouri. Against the night sky, the […]
