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MISSISSIPPI RIVER

American Rivers says the Mississippi faces many threats, including increased flooding and inadequate disaster prevention and response.
The Beltrami County SWCD will host its annual Mighty Mississippi Clean Up Day event between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, with willing volunteers meeting at Paul Bunyan Park.
The capsizing of the steamer Sea Wing on Lake Pepin in 1890 made it one of the nation's worst maritime disasters.
From the Danube to the Mississippi, John Arenz and his family have participated in canoe trips and competitive races all over the world in their many years as paddlers.

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The public is invited to watch the Minnesota Championship Canoe Races from the shore of the Mississippi River as part of the second annual Beaver Bay Beach Bash on Sept. 7-8 in Bemidji.
As part of the Clean Water Act, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is spending this summer monitoring the Mississippi River throughout Minnesota.
On June 1, Zak Rivers began paddling down the Mississippi River with his cello, with the goal of making it to the Gulf of Mexico in 100 days and reconnecting with his instrument along the way.
The Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council is recommending that $12 million be allocated to curb spread of carp further into Minnesota waters
'I immediately kind of went into their shoes,'said Lindsay Walz, who survived a 2007 fall into the Mississippi River in Minneapolis from the I-35W bridge
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New consumption guidance from the Minnesota Department of Health was issued after contaminants, including PFAS, were found in fish tissue from those locations

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Even through frigid midwest winters, the crop can be planted in the fall and will resume growing in the spring
'We've been seeing more sightings and more captures, and also more detections of fish that were tagged downstream and moved up into Minnesota, following that flooding'
The Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner’s Office has responded to the scene and will be releasing the names of those located, according to the Sheriff's Office

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