Environmental News

More water in Mississippi leading to loss of floodplain forests

These two photos were taken from Highway 14 just east of La Crescent
These two photos were taken from Highway 14 just east of La Crescent on the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. They show the same location in 2018 (left) and 2022. The trees were already stressed and dying in 2018. By 2022, they were mostly dead.
Submitted by Andy Meier, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.