The upper Mississippi River is in serious need of a watershed study. We are facing stronger storms and more frequent flooding, and the watershed approach will address how communities can reduce ...

Madeline Heim is a Report for America corps reporter who writes about environmental issues in the Mississippi River watershed and across Wisconsin. Contact her at 920-996-7266 or mheim@gannett.com.

Madeline Heim is a Report for America corps reporter who writes about environmental issues in the Mississippi River watershed and across Wisconsin. Contact her at 920-996-7266 or mheim@gannett.com.

Madeline Heim is a Report for America corps reporter who writes about environmental issues in the Mississippi River watershed and across Wisconsin. Contact her at (920) 996-7266 or mheim@gannett.com.

Madeline Heim is a Report for America corps reporter who writes about environmental issues in the Mississippi River watershed and across Wisconsin. Contact her at (920) 996-7266 or mheim@gannett.com.

Wild rice is pictured in the floating-leaf stage on the upper Mississippi River in June 2023. The floating-leaf stage occurs before the plant matures.© Courtesy of Alicia Carhart, Wisconsin DNR ...

A 1974 field notebook belonging to Stafford Happ shows his observations from Wisconsin’s Coon Creek watershed on behalf of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s sediment lab in Oxford, Mississippi.

MONTEVIDEO — The National Weather Service has raised the threat of spring flooding to “above normal” in the Minnesota River watershed, as well as in the watersheds of the Upper Mississippi ...