#Mississippi River

[bethanythebogwitch]

Hey everyone, the senate is potentially going to cut funding to the Upper Mississippi Restoration Program on Monday. This program is about monitoring, habitat restoration, water quality, and a ton of other stuff on the Mississippi river. It's super important for the environment, for understanding river ecology, for local economies, and for the general wellbeing of the country's largest river and major shipping route. Its also the source of my job, so I would be in real deep shit if this gets canned.

There's a petition online to keep funding and it would be great if you signed it. Remember to personalize your message or it will get automatically sorted out.

ETA: not remembering to link the petition is not one of my finer moments

[animatejournal]

Bugs Bunny: Mississippi Hare Director: Chuck Jones | Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 1949

[blessedscavengers]

part four of my Mississippi River fish series

I have stickers of this print up on my etsy shop if anyone’s interested!

made in 2024

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Sunrise along the Mississippi River in southern Illinois

Taken June 2024

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

Minneapolis via Pantografata

[annapolisrose]

Mississippi River

[crumb]

Mississippi River's edge, Southern Louisiana (1978) Ph. Nick DeWolf

[pamietniko]

walking along the Mississippi River

Minneapolis, Minnesota

[agelessphotography]

St. Louis (Mississippi River), Robert Frank, 1947

[matthewdwhite]

New Orleans, LA From Algiers Point 8/20

[geekynerfherder]

'Jim Cutlass by Jean Giraud (Moebius).

Cover art for 'Metal Hurlant' issue #44, published in 1979.

[williammarksommer]

Sunspots on the Muddy Water

Staring at the Sun series 

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Tmax 100iso

[blessedscavengers]

part two of my Mississippi River fish series

made in 2024

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Sunrise along the floodplains of the Mississippi River

Taken June 2024

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

❄️Minneapolis - Frigid Cold on the Mississippi❄️ via Lane Pelovsky

[follow-up-news]

Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and protect surrounding communities from flooding. But cutting off the natural flow of the river with man made barriers has been slowly killing one of the nation’s largest forested wetlands. The 176 square mile (456 square kilometers) Maurepas Swamp just to the west of New Orleans holds Louisiana’s second largest contiguous forest, a beloved state wildlife refuge filled with water tupelo and bald cypress trees, their branches adorned by wisps of Spanish moss. A beloved recreation site, the swamp also houses bald eagles, ospreys, black bears and alligators and serves as a waystation for hundreds of different migratory birds. Deprived of nutrients from the stanched Mississippi River, the swamp’s iconic trees are dying in stagnant water. Yet they’re now set to receive a life-saving boost. State and federal authorities on Tuesday celebrated breaking ground on an ambitious conservation project intended to replenish the ailing trees by diverting water from the Mississippi back into the swamp.