Proposed WOTUS Rule Threatens Streams and Wetland
What's at Stake? In December 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army proposed a revised...
Wetland and Stream Impacts of Development – Interactive Maps
Flooding Storymap
Mississippi River and Its Tributaries
The Mississippi River & Tributaries project (MR&T) was a result of the devastating 1927 flood on the Mississippi River. Congress directed the U.S....
Missouri River Dams
The six Missouri River dams, started in 1933 and completed in 1964, were built primarily through the Pick-Sloan Program, a Bureau...
Missouri River Recovery Program
Just as on the Mississippi River, ecosystem restoration efforts have been ongoing within the Missouri River as well. Since 2000,...
Upper Mississippi River Ecosystem Restoration
In 1986, the Corps of Engineers received a new mission within the Mississippi River basin: ecosystem restoration. The 1986 Water Resources...
Navigation on the Missouri River
Like the Mississippi River, the Missouri River has also been highly altered to float large barges. The structures on the Missouri...
Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam System
Floating huge barges on the majority of the rivers in the U.S. is not natural. It requires massive river-altering infrastructure....