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River Magazine
September-October 2010 Highlights
Cover:Students get out on the river in the Twin Cities with the help of Wilderness Inquiry. (photo by Bob Deck)
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Loop It’s easy to spend a day exploring these stretches of the Upper Mississippi. In each of our “River Loops” columns we’ll prowl a stretch of the river for interesting places and things to do. Clinton, Iowa, to Savanna, Ill. At Thomson, Ill., the river is a full three-quarters of a mile wider than Lake Pepin. Lock and Dam 13 flooded an island and a prairie and turned this stretch into a big shallow lake, then wind and wave erosion wore away most of the remaining island fragments. In this Loop we wind around from Thomson, Ill., downstream through Fulton, then across the river to Clinton, Iowa. Then we travel upstream in Iowa to the island city of Sabula, then cross the river again into Savanna, Ill.
This completes out series on Upper Mississippi River travel loops. Check the Loop Directory for the complete list of day-trip or weekend loops. |
Feature Stories
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Stairways of Dubuque
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Cidery on a River Bluff |
Getting Kids on the River |
River Birds Head to the Gulf Fish and Wildlife Service Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response |
For years, many Dubuque residents relied on steep stairways to get back and forth between homes on the bluffs and the city below. By Constance R. Cherba and Edward E. Deckert 
