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A nine part series capturing 3 brothers on a canoe trip from Lake Itasca to Lake Pepin on the Mississippi River. The brothers eventually paddle the 2,500+ miles to the Gulf of Mexico.
From the River Talk Blog:
The Minnesota Senate is considering a bill that would redirect funding away from renewable energy broadly speaking and limit research to projects in renewable electricity (no more research on renewable transportation fuels, conservation, or energy efficiency). Learn more at this Action Alert.
What has this got to do with rivers and a sustainable Mississippi River? The energy/water nexus is in and of itself very powerful: one of the largest uses of water in Minnesota is cooling power plants, for example. Conservation and energy efficiency can reduce our reliance on these plants, thereby perhaps freeing water for other uses.
Furthermore, the mercury pollution that is part of the impairment of so many of Minnesota’s lakes and streams gets here as airborne pollution from upwind power plants. Again, better energy conservation standards will ultimately mean less mercury in the lakes and rivers and a big step toward the Clean Water Act’s goal of “swimmable, fishable waters” across the country.
As John Muir said (and I paraphrase) “when you take hold of any part of the world, you find that it’s connected to all the other parts.” Look again at the Action Alert and help preserve all aspects of renewable energy research in the state.
http://riverlife.umn.edu/2012/03/05/renewable-energy-research-at-u-of-mn-is-threatened/
A nine part series capturing 3 brothers on a canoe trip from Lake Itasca to Lake Pepin on the Mississippi River. The brothers eventually paddle the 2,500+ miles to the Gulf of Mexico.
A nine part series capturing 3 brothers on a canoe trip from Lake Itasca to Lake Pepin on the Mississippi River. The brothers eventually paddle the 2,500+ miles to the Gulf of Mexico.
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – There’s evidence flying carp are in Minnesota after a commercial fisherman says he caught one in the Mississippi River.
If tests confirm the fish is actually the flying silver carp, it would be the first documented case in the river this far north. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) now has that fish.
Tim Adams said he caught the fish Friday in Winona.
“I walked through and said, ‘Whoa! We got another Big Head,’ and I said, ‘No! It’s a silver,’” Adams recalled. “We were quite surprised.”
Adams is a well-known commercial fisherman who fishes the Illinois River, which Asian carp have overtaken. o if anyone knows what these things look like and what they can do to an ecosystem, he’s the one.
He says the silver carp, or flying carp as it’s commonly called, got caught in his net. It certainly wasn’t the catch he expected. The state hired him to find these fish, and he finally did on Friday after past attempts proved unsuccessful.
This discovery is significant. The state has already found the flying-carp DNA in the river, but this is the first time someone’s actually caught one of these flying fish.
They’re destructive forces that have overtaken rivers and stripped the pleasure out of boating. The carp catch comes the same day the Gov. Mark Dayton wrote an editorial about Asian carp.
“It is critical that we act as quickly as possible, in whatever ways feasible, to stop the spread of Asian carp,” Dayton wrote. “If established here, they would forever change the ecology and human uses of many of our water resources.”
The governor says that barriers to stop the carp’s migration are key. Crews will build the Coon Rapids Dam higher this summer, so carp can’t leap over it.
“They’re coming,” said Adams, who believes more flying-fish are in the water. “It will only take one good spawn. If there’s enough to spawn, I’ll be all over.”
Adams also caught a Big Head Carp in the Mississippi on Thursday. It doesn’t fly like the silver carp, but it does devour all the food in the water.
He’s has seen how quickly these Asian carp spread in other rivers. He fears what could happen in Minnesota if more isn’t done to protect our precious waters.
A nine part series capturing 3 brothers on a canoe trip from Lake Itasca to Lake Pepin on the Mississippi River. The brothers eventually paddle the 2,500+ miles to the Gulf of Mexico.
A nine part series capturing 3 brothers on a canoe trip from Lake Itasca to Lake Pepin on the Mississippi River. The brothers eventually paddle the 2,500+ miles to the Gulf of Mexico.
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