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September-October 2017

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La Crosse, Wis., to Winona, Minn., Loop

Overlooks by Duke Addicks
Overlook Height Table

Big River page on overlooks

 

From River News

Tending the Water: Master water stewards

War on Carp: The Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study

Encouraging sediment study

Plan to improve Beaver Island

Deader Zone: Runoff Risk Advisory Forecasts

Looking Over a Beer: Kellogg Craft Beer Overlook (FB)

25 By 25: Miinnesota Environmental Quality Board

Another Transmission Line: Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line

Sun Boat Taxi

Bad Wells: Kewaunee County


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Stories Published in past issues of Big River

Climbing the River Bluffs (pdf)
By Pamela Eyden The Mississippi River valleycould be the best sport-climbing spot in the Midwest. March-April 2017
Climbing Links

Waiting for the Julia Belle Swain (pdf)
By John Gabbert The hard, gritty, expensive work of rescuing one of the finest steam sternwheeler packet boats ever built is nearly finished. Jan-Feb 2017

Effigy Mounds of the Wisconsin River Valley
By Sara Millhouse September-October 2016

Coldwater Cave May-June 2016
By Capt. Ted Peck

Nighthawk Twilight
By Molly McGuire July-Aug 2015

Carp Poetry Winners - July-Aug 2015

12 Great Rivertown Gardens (pdf) - May-June 2015

Sand Dollars — Mining Frac Sand in the River Valley (pdf
July-Aug 2011

Boykin Spaniels and Box Turtles July-Aug 2010

Look down on the river
Overlooks, lookouts, precipices and blufftop peaks

An Otter Kind of Critter