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#TBT St. Paul and Pool 2: Dynamic Land and Water
Grazing on the West Side Flats. This herd of cattle is standing more or less where Holman Field airport is now located. Lily Lake was filled in early in the 20th century to create the land for the...
View ArticleA Sip of Science–The St Anthony Lock Has Closed, So How Is the River Doing?
This Wednesday May 11, A Sip of Science will feature a University of Minnesota graduate student reporting on a nearly-complete “literature review” and baseline assessment of the Mississippi River in...
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Summer Plans and Some (Slight) Changes in the Works
Around universities, summers can be pretty slow. Faculty and students are mostly away, recharging their batteries between school year urgencies. The relatively few people around for summer school...
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#TBT: Summer Reading about Rivers
Well, “Throwback Thursday” doesn’t mean we have to go very far back, right? In the spirit of (hoped for) summer reading time, I offer the Introduction to Issue 2 of Open Rivers: Rethinking the...
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“Building Inclusive and Sustainable Relationships with the Mississippi River”
A persistent challenge to our River Life program have been the questions: what exactly do you folks DO? What questions do you ask? What impact do you have? To some extent, the persistence of these...
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TBT: The Mississippi River Gorge as “natural”
There is a growing buzz about making the Mississippi River Gorge in Minneapolis more “natural.” It’s certainly a fine idea to talk about and plan for restoration of some features and dynamics that the...
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River Life: Place, Water, Community
Download a PDF of this blog post here (4 MB) Over the past few months, River Life has found its focus shifting a bit. Since 2005, we have worked to raise the visibility of the Mississippi River,...
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Open Rivers Issue 5 Now Available: Networks and Collaboration
When I got fully engaged with Mississippi River work, in the mid-90s, there was a lot of talk about public-private partnerships. That has ebbed and flowed and morphed over the years, but the idea of...
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“Provocations” issue of Open Rivers journal now online
Open Rivers Issue 6 “Provocations” is now posted and available! Find it at http://openrivers.umn.edu The world of higher education is notoriously siloed. Colleges and universities are divided into...
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#TBT: 1997 “Someone Should Do Something With the Mississippi River”
I hope you will forgive a slightly self-indulgent post this time: the trajectory of project and program work that has become River Life began 20 years ago this month, in May, 1997. In the late 1990s, I...
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