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1 Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (MNRRA) National Park Service

2 Trapped by History Will the Past Anchor the Mississippi River s Future? America s Inner Coast Summit, June 22-24, 2010 John O. Anfinson Mississippi National River and Recreation Area National Park Service

3 The Test Looming Before Us: Can we create a river that is economically successful and ecologically sustainable?

4 4 th River?

5 4 th River Ecosystem by 1960s.

6 The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 1986 stated that the Mississippi River was a nationally significant ecosystem.

7 WRDA 1986 also stated that the Mississippi River was a nationally significant commercial navigation system.

8 Dividing the Pie on the Columbia River? Grand Coulee Dam Migrating Salmon

9 Dividing the Pie on the Mississippi River????????

10 A Time of Testing: Can we successfully divide the pie and avoid a hydraulic trap?

11 The West s Hydraulic Trap? Boulder Dam, Colorado River

12 First Three Upper Mississippi Rivers 1. Natural River, Up to Constricted River, s 3. Locked & Dammed River, 1930s- Present

13 The Natural River

14 Upper Mississippi River, Annual Hydrograph Low end of pulse prevented.

15 Map - Natural Channels Light Blue - Less than 3 feet at low water

16 Sandbar at Queens Bluff

17 Harvesting mussels for buttons and pearls. Pearl Buttons

18

19 Mississippi River floodplain at Gorham, Illinois.

20 Bountiful Backwaters

21 Islands at Savanna, Ill.

22 4-Foot Channel, and 6-Foot Channels, s 9-Foot Channel, 1930s- Present

23 The Need for Navigation Improvements

24 Snagging Scene

25 Railroads at St. Paul. Bosse

26 Oliver Hudson Kelley, founder of the Granger Movement

27 Wing dams below Nininger, 4.5-Foot Channel Project

28 Pine Bend, MN, 1891, 4.5-Foot Channel Project Closing Dam

29 Channel Constriction, 6-Foot Channel

30 Channel Constriction, 6-Foot Channel Wing Dams

31 Keokuk and Hamilton Dam (Lock & Dam 19), 1913, Keokuk

32 Lock & Dam No. 1, St. Paul Completed 1917

33 Constricted Channel, Mississippi River below St. Paul, 1927

34 Floodplain Agriculture

35 Rupture Points They occur when a society has managed a river for one purpose and then decides to manage it for another. The early conflict between navigation The early conflict between navigation improvements and agricultural levees are an example of a rupture point.

36 Floodplain Levees, Rock Island District

37 Mississippi River Floodplain near Waterloo, Illinois

38 Will Dilg, Izaak Walton League cofounder & refuge champion

39 Upper Mississippi National Wildlife & Fish Refuge

40 Minneapolis-St. Louis RR

41 Mississippi River, 9-Foot Channel Project

42 Refuge above Rock Island Levees below Rock Island Channel constriction, whole Upper Mississippi River

43 WHAT KIND OF RIVER?

44 Image Sources Slide 1. Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. Slide 3. usfweb2.usf.edu/.../study_skills.html. Slide s 4 & 5. Natural River. Seth Eastman( ). View on the Mississippi 70 Miles below the Falls of St. Anthony. Art Collection, Watercolor, Slide 6. Slide 7. Lock & Dam No. 15, Rock Island, Ill. Slide 8. Grand Coulee Dam, Migrating salmon, staff.washington.edu/jltran/my%20favorite%20g. Slide 11. Boulder Dam, Colorado River. bridgepros.com/.../index.htm. Slides 12 & 13. Seth Eastman( ). View on the Mississippi 70 Miles below the Falls of St. Anthony. Art Collection, Watercolor, Slide 14. Environmental Pool Plans, River Resources Forum, Slide16. Queens Bluff by Henry P. Bosse. St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers. Slide 17. Mountains of shells rose up alongside the Mississippi as clammersmade a living harvesting mussels to supply the button industry. Source: Oscar GrossheimCollection, Musser Public Library, Iowa. And, mussel shell and pearl buttons.

45 Image Sources, Continued Slide 18. University of Iowa. Slide 19. Mississippi River floodplain at Gorham, Illinois. American Environmental Photographs Collection, [AEP Image Number, e.g., AEP-MIN73], Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library. Slide Slide 21. Islands at Savanna, Illinois. American Environmental Photographs Collection, [AEP Image Number, e.g., AEP-MIN73], Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library. Slide 22. Dredge Phoenix and Wing Dams Below Nininger, by Henry P. Bosse; Lock & Dam No. 6. St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers. Slide Slide 24. Railroads at St. Paul by Henry P. Bosse, Rock Island District, Corps of Engineers. Slide25. Snagging Scene by Henry P. Bosse, Rock Island District, Corps of Engineers. Slide 26. Oliver Hudson Kelley.

46 Image Sources Continued Slide 27. Wing Dams below Nininger by Henry P. Bosse. St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers. Slide 28. Pine Bend by Henry P. Bosse. St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers. Slides 29 & Foot Channel images. St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers. Slide 31. Keokuk and Hamilton Co. Lock and Dam, Slide 32. Lock & Dam No. 1, St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers. Slide 33. Constricted River. Brown Survey Photo. St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers. Slide 34 & 42. Floodplain Agriculture. Minnesota Historical Society. Minnesota Harvest Field, Painter: Joseph Rusling Meeker ( ), Art Collection, Oil Slide 36. Floodplain Levees, Rock Island District. Floodplain Management Assessment, Corps of Engineers. Slide 37. Floodplain near Waterloo, Illinois. American Environmental Photographs Collection, [AEP Image Number, e.g., AEP-MIN73], Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library. Slide 38. Will Dilg, Izaak Walton League.

47 Image Sources Continued Slide 39 & 42. Upper Mississippi River Wildlife & Fish Refuge. Slide 40. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad. Hibbard Studio. Photograph Collection, , Minnesota Historical Society. Slide 41. Lock & Dam No. 8, St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers. Slide Foot Channel Scene. St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers. Slide 43. Mississippi River Scene. St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers.

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