The primary draws to southern Illinois are the outdoor recreation activities in Shawnee National Forest, including hiking, ...

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 to Clinton, Iowa, decreased ...

Overall, forest cover along the stretch of the river from Minnesota down to Clinton, Iowa decreased by roughly 6% between 1989 and 2010, according to a 2022 report on ecological trends on the ...

It’s just something always delaying the project,” Iberville Parish President Chris Daigle said. “And here we are again.” ...

A potential corridor for a new Mississippi River bridge south of Baton Rouge would bisect and partially destroy an old-growth cypress forest in Iberville Parish, which some experts have identified ...

A potential corridor for a new Mississippi River bridge south of Baton Rouge would bisect and partially destroy an old-growth cypress forest in Iberville Parish, which some experts have identified ...

Overall, forest cover along the stretch of the river from Minnesota down to Clinton, Iowa decreased by roughly 6% between 1989 and 2010, according to a 2022 report on ecological trends on the ...

ALTON - As the Mississippi River Festival prepares to kick off their two-day event this weekend, organizers have decided to ...

One of the Quapaw Canoe Company’s popular trips is an excursion to a chain of river islands between Mississippi and Arkansas that formed around the 1829 wreck of the steamboat Montezuma. Today, ...

Barges wrap around bottomland forest in Pool 10 of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. The 240,000-acre refuge, which includes backwaters off the main river channel, is ...