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RIVER LIFE

Science Resources

Policy
Resources

Engagement Resources

Articles, blogs, and other resources on hydrology, aquatic ecology, and related areas of knowledge.

Practices in engineering, policy, advocacy, and politics.  The ‘how you make it happen’ of river work.

Stories, public art, design, and other expressions of the meaning and meanings of rivers.

Mississippi River Gorge Restoration Report

Chris Lenhart’s Gorge Restoration Report Summary (PDF) explores the scientific issues involved in managing the future of the Mississippi River Gorge. Click here for the full Gorge Restoration Report (PDF).

National Park Service, Water Quality in the Mississippi River

The Mississippi River in the Twin Cities is an impaired water resource, the improvement of which is important to the future use of the river in this urban area.

Imagine the Mississippi

These visions will spark thinking about our future use and relationship to this river.

Student Resources

See the River Life Atlas for Learning from the Landscape: Campus, City, Region.

Download the classic Mississippi River Newsletters by Bill Morrish of the Design Center for American Urban Landscape (now the Metropolitan Design Center) at the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (now the College of the Design) at the University of Minnesota.

Contact Us!
Send us a note at rlp@umn.edu to make suggestions for other places we should look, media to track, and stories to tell!
Announcements
Investigate our web site at riverlife.umn.edu and visit us at Facebook and on Twitter.

Here about our recent move to the Institute for Advanced Study and what that means for our work

See our series of student guest blogs New Voices on River Issues.