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American
white pelicans remain abundant on many portions of the Upper Mississippi
River! We've begun to hear that they
may be nesting. Pelican's must NOT BE DISTURBED while nesting, so please do
not harass any clusters you find resting deep in the backwaters!
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with our cruising steamboats inexcusably shut
down for the moment, the European w aterways
have been teasing me to come explore a few more of the world's most renown
rivers. The
FEATURE DIRECTORY is a good place to start. Or use
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Visit our extensive
Waterway Travel pages
where we have just posted our story on cruising with AMA WATERWAYS along the
Mosel, Rhine, and Main Rivers in
Germany!
Yo ur brand new, greatly expanded
Volume 1, of
Discover! America's
Great River Road. From St.
Paul to Dubuque, we've added hundreds of new entries, new photos, maps, and
charts in a completely redesigned format to make it easier than ever to use.
Also newly
printed for 2009 is
COME HELL OR
HIGH WATER by Michael Gillespie. Mike's anthology of contemporary sources
paints a colorful and adventurous history of riverboating on America's
Waterways.
"Last year we traveled 5,000+ miles along
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Remember to visit our WHAT's NEW PAGE for all that's new on
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Mississippi River Blog.
Our
biggest news for 2009 is an expanded venue for our #1
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WATERWAY CRUISE REPORTS and
TRAVEL FEATURES. Not only have we been traveling and reporting on traveling the
Mississippi River for 23
years, but we have concurrently been exploring many of the world's great travel
destinations... and many you've never heard of!
Please visit our
NEW
PHOTO ART SITE for detailed
travel photo essays, and
a much better means of viewing our MISSISSIPPI RIVER ART...
hand-painted historic maps
of the Mississippi River, real photo
note cards, and our new
Mississippi River
steamboat
prints. And
if all this northern snow and ice is getting you down, give yourself a colorful pick me
up by visiting our
Mexican note cards site!
Click on this
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and Natural History stories.
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Falling Leaves expose
landslides and mudflows from August '07
You may also be interested in the story, When Bluffs
Throw Boulders or
The Flood of 1993
See the MISSISSIPPI RIVER BLOG
for a summary of statistics from August 07 RAINS.
11-15"
overnight rainfall along the Upper Mississippi River in August is now
described as a 1000-year rainfall which turned clay and silt covering the bluffs
into gelatin.
Click to See complete story and
summary.
Photo Slideshows:
Brownsville, MN |
Hokah, MN |
Goodview & Winona, MN |
Bad Axe River |
Sidie Hollow |
Winona, MN City |
Mount Sterling |
Chaseburg

For other natural oddities, visit:
WHEN
FISH FLY... Asian Bighead Carp have infiltrated well into the Upper
Mississippi River. For some really good
photos of really big
fish from the Upper Mississippi, check out our regularly updated
FISHING REPORT
from Clements Barge in Genoa.

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York Times...CLICK PHOTO,
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