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the widow martha heartbeat has the mississippi allies

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at the heart of america more than any other natural

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feature it is a symbol of our nation and a resource

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of the international significance that is one of the

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few remaining large riverfront finds of the world

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i maintain any semblance of its original glory but

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the mighty mississippi is in trouble and need your

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help

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yeah

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the mississippi is among the war snapple

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along the upper mississippi river there off hundred

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and fifty six species of fish and over forty species

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of fresh water mussels it's also a major flyway for

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migratory routes helping support up to forty percent

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of north america's don he's wanted wading birds are

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over two hundred fifty thousand acres of national

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wildlife refuge lands associated with the upper mississippi

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river once a bottom land forests along its banks provide

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habitat for over fifty species of mammal like mosque

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where people live rotter a made in the year another

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forty five ccs of blood thompson amphibians called

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the river and its banks there are a lot send floodplain

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of the great river harbor a number of where plants

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and wildlife species and each of these plants and

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animals should be guaranteed a place in the future

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mississippi ripley ecosystem

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during most of its history the river was utilized

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on it's all interns in a was a man who adapted to

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the changing of resources which have been peeved court

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is with the rhythms brought on by floods and droughts

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native americans called the mississippi home and they

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used to commerce and transportation of food source

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and a number of other basic need

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and then i mean no rain a

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team hundreds the new americans began to modify the

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river to suit their needs rather than adapt to the

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reverse fickle nature in eighteen twenty three the

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first steamboat ascended the river as far as the site

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of saint paul by the middle of the century it would

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work traffic can reach significant levels bringing

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immigrants from all walks of life and the upper mississippi

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region experienced on major population boom

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joined this time of rapid expansion of resources were

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one of the settlers believe that our natural resources

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were without limit and we're unconcerned with a long

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term consequences

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when trees along the riverbed a few of the steamboats

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hurtle bottom cleared of treason planted a row props

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soil conservation practices increased or revolution

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in the rivers watershed causing a major increase in

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settlement contributed to the river we're oodles along

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with the increase evelyn and development in the mississippi

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basin came the pressure to modify the river to capitalize

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on its resources for the first time the river rose

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between shape

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i really don't begin to remove snow

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this falklands act between the eighteen forties and

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eighteen seventies seated thousands of acres of bottom

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land forests and backwaters to the states ultimately

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for drainage and agricultural development

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in eighteen seventy eight oh poor and a half going

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deep navigational channel was authorized by congress

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this development conscripted riverbed the construction

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of hundreds of closing dikes and when dikes they were

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designed to confine the river's flow within the navigation

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channel so there would be sufficient doubt stirring

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periods of low water river flow into the back water

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habitats decrease significantly making drainage and

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clearly easier throughout the flood plain in nineteen

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oh seven a six foot channel project was authorized

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and hundreds more closing dams were built

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the mississippi river landscape which a word for centuries

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was suddenly transform promo pristine complied prairies

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woodlands and that was how far cities and industrial

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sites and the development would continue

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and i mean no no never

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electric potential was hardest one dam was built that

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she had compiled poignantly damage

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you can completely obstructed the mississippi

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i drown the cuticle rapids slowing the river's current

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enclosing sediments more rapidly accumulate in aquatic

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habitats many mosul that's fish spawning grounds and

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other aquatic habitats were there we smother with

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a blanket of snow damned hole that the melodious a

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world migration of fish up and down the river and

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species such as the blue soccer's get jack carried

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an ebony show muscle all began to decline

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in nineteen thirty eight congress to write to the

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u. s. army corps to build and maintain a nine foot

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deep navigation channel a series of slack water navigational

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in palmer's were created through the construction

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of twenty a lock and dam complexes between saint louis

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by nineteen fifty construction of the sundance was

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completed and the police go in with dramatically changed

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what planes were isolated by a massive levee construction

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detaining over the river for navigation and flood

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control would exact a high price from the river's

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natural ecosystem dam's converted bottom land forests

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and other floodplain

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yamada of wanting habitat gets handed that bottle

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numbers temporarily kinsley

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the nine foot channel projects are real goal was to

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increase commercial river transportation and betty

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i did today approximately nineteen million times a

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petroleum grain call camel polls and all the all commodities

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are shipped up and down the mississippi river reached

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in north america including the best area drained by

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its tributaries the mississippi takes on water or

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for more than a million square miles that includes

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all or parts of thirty three states and two canadian

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provinces just imagine this mighty mississippi river

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basin it stretches all the way from the alleghenies

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in the east to the rocky mountains in the wild you're

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from canada and all the way south down to the gulf

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of mexico and

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the great liberal you steve really

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mississippi

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imagine the mill

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a call for a line ecological significance of this

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mighty mississippi this world class where vertigo

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system has become the victim of human intervention

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for its economic significance the rivers ability to

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support economic endeavors contributed to america's

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heartland but the economic benefits provided by weaver

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development have been costly in terms of the ecological

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and state biologists now feared this mighty river

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is in serious trouble them in

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as early as the eighteen nineties biologist began

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documenting noticeable changes around in

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water conservation groups began to merge among them

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the icy randomly steptoe and spoke longingly against

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the waves revenge

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we're mississippi wildlife and fish revenue save nearly

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three hundred pounds while once a businessman and

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women began to feel the standard spirit of the bed

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we knew when the great outdoors past

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fifty years concerned for the river's environment

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has steadily increased outdoor infuse his and biologists

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have worked to help the reverse b. c. survived the

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changes caused by human intervention manson exploitation

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of the river was sacrificing the river's fish wildlife

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the nineteen seventies brought environmental concerns

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to the forefront water quality improved as new water

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pollution regulations help clean up the river but

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increase settlements haitian law so blob lot habitat

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and unhindered development continued to alarm goes

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to carol botha river the reversal ability to replace

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and rejuvenated s complex mosaic of terrestrial one

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aquatic habitats was greatly diminished by navigation

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and floodplain development backwater for filling with

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silt panic celebrated rates but you'll backwater areas

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were not be informed replacement many habitats were

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being lost to a revolution as shown by this time sequence

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of all iowans are rodino in poor wait

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realizing the downturn negative effects this would

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have on the river concern groups began to step up

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efforts to work towards a plan to manage the river

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and bring it back to health and was finally on the

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and i know a

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lot of the groups that has been a leader in the river

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conservation effort is the upper mississippi river

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conservation committee better known as the new anwar

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founded in nineteen forty three with a group that

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consisted of just wanting to do you are

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really that lagnado manatee i

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used to pursue its goal of promoting the president

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roland recreational

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sedimentation has been sighted

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we're prepared by the great river or environmental

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action team in nineteen eighty estimated that as much

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as forty nine percent of backwater habitats could

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be lost within fifty years

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saddening reduces water clarity which we do

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the real problem is that the rivers alder natural

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functions which counteract the impacts from sedimentation

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white periods of flooding and drought have been eliminated

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biologists now recognize that management must adjust

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to include the restoration or simulation of natural

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rubber processes cycles and events but over thousands

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of years helped create the rivers diversity of plants

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and animals there will remittances to have significant

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problems experienced in any hurry

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i didn't while the disappears to

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make mighty mississippi river once accordion three

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and r. c. c. believes the future with russia not be

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guided towards intercapital economic development and

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a pristine ecosystem and admitted because doesn't

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have to be made between the two time for people to

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strike a balance between economic and ecological demands

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that doesn't compromise the integrity of either problems

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will not go and then biologists say they will only

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grow worse with the wyatt and if action is not taken

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to change course a national treasure that belongs

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the loss of a healthy mississippi river ecosystem

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will also cause the loss of a billion dollars annually

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in recreation benefits depending upon that ecosystem

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taxpayer spent close to ninety million dollar

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not a mile to manage the river's natural resources

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but the mississippi need not be doomed citizens often

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down this river have the right to getting bad and

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inciting the appropriate balance between short term

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economic needs of this reversal now for the golan

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the new research toward understanding the ecology

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of the upper mississippi river route for sanchez unify

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a gram promo partnerships between federal state local

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and private organizations that seek a better alternative

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biologist on board

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ask that you what policy and decision makers know

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that you are concerned about the ecological future

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of the mississippi river

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and i think knows that way i

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