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The health of the Mississippi River is improving. However there are new threats from urban and farm runoff and invasive species that we must combat in the coming years. Those are the results released today from a comprehensive National Park Service-Friends of the Mississippi River report.Read the full report here and check their stewardship guide here to find out what you can do. Continue Reading
Long past overdue, the changes at Coldwater Spring, the newest addition to the National Park Service’s Mississippi National River and Recreation Area in Minneapolis are remarkable.
“We begin history here in 1820,” John Anfinson said in a KFAI radio interview.
For years, the future of Minneapolis’s riverfront along St. Anthony Main has been rich in promise but lacking in follow-through. New proposals for the area poured in after a plan to reinvigorate the area collapsed in the 2008 recession. To help educate them on options for their neighborhood’s future, residents of the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood and the greater University District sought the help of Ignacio San Martín.