Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KELLOGG, Minnesota - Standing on the frozen Mississippi River, his back to a few fishers in the distance, Rob Burdis begins to ...

The annual event took place on Jan. 11, 2025 and helped celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. Elliott Beyers, left, helps his daughter Blake ...

Barges wrap around bottomland forest in Pool 10 of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. The 240,000-acre refuge, which includes backwaters off the main river channel, is ...

Congress passed the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge Act on June 7, 1924. “All the forest you see in these backwaters, that’s the floodplain forest,” said Hallie Schulz of the United ...

SHELBY, Wisconsin — If she closes her eyes, Danelle Larson can still remember how the stretch of Mississippi River in front of her looked as recent as a decade ago: nothing but open, muddy water.

MINNESOTA CITY, Minn. – Sabrina Chandler spent much of her life on the other end of the Mississippi River. Growing up on the Gulf Coast near New Orleans, where levees wall the river off, she had to ...

ONALASKA, Wis. (WXOW) -- The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge is celebrating 100 years of conservation. The refuge is 261 miles long, spanning from Wabasha, Minnesota all of the ...

ONALASKA, Wis. (WKBT) -- Spring's earliest feathered visitors got a warm welcome from local bird enthusiasts along the Great River State Trail on Wednesday. The Upper Mississippi River National ...

KELLOGG, Minnesota - Standing on the frozen Mississippi River, his back to a few fishers in the distance, Rob Burdis begins to drill a hole into the ice near his feet. Once the drill stops, the only ...

Minnesota DNR water quality specialist Rob Burdis drills into 50 cm of ice Jan. 22 on Peterson Lake, which is part of the Mississippi River, near Kellogg, Minnesota. The hole allows access to one of ...