American Rivers, the leading river protection advocacy group in the United States, produced this report in 2009 to highlight efforts made in eight communities across the country to utilize “green infrastructure” strategies to make themselves more resilient to water threats...
In this article, which appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of Open Rivers, researcher Jess Kozarek offers another look at a place many people know well: the Mississippi River. Kozarek’s research investigates the intersections between stream management and ecosystem response.
In the Twin Cities, there is always a touch of nostalgia about river-adjacent communities such as the Bohemian Flats community in Minneapolis, or the Little Italy community on St. Paul’s Upper Levee.
The St. Anthony Falls area of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis has always been a place of change. It has also been a place of power—both the evident waterpower that drove the nearby mills, but also the less visible emotional and spiritual power of moving water.