MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEAR CASSVILLE - There's an art to setting a fishing net, and Mike Valley is a veritable Picasso. When he's out on the Mississippi River, the current changes every day, and precision ...

Barges wrap around bottomland forest in Pool 10 of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. The 240,000-acre refuge, which includes backwaters off the main river channel, is ...

KELLOGG, Minnesota - Standing on the frozen Mississippi River, his back to a few fishers in the distance, Rob Burdis begins to drill a hole into the ice near his feet. Once the drill stops, the only ...

Congress passed the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge Act on June 7, 1924. “All the forest you see in these backwaters, that’s the floodplain forest,” said Hallie Schulz of the United ...

The annual event took place on Jan. 11, 2025 and helped celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. Elliott Beyers, left, helps his daughter Blake ...

SHELBY, Wisconsin — If she closes her eyes, Danelle Larson can still remember how the stretch of Mississippi River in front of her looked as recent as a decade ago: nothing but open, muddy water.

Eagles gather on the Black River near where it meets the Mississippi River, Feb. 14, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The area is part of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, which ...

Jeremy King, a DNR water quality technician, measures the ice thickness before taking water quality samples to measure velocity, depth, turbidity in the Mississippi River in Alma, Wisconsin on Feb. 15 ...