Channel, Floodplain, And Wetland Responses To Floods And Overban...

Courtesy Recent Science Inventory records from the EPA  Wed, 08/05/2009 - 09:34

Conversion of upland forest and prairie vegetation to agricultural land uses, following Euro-American settlement in the Upper Mississippi River System, led to accelerated runoff and soil erosion that subsequently transformed channels, floodplains, and wetlands on bottomlands.

Halfway Creek Marsh, at the junction of Halfway Creek and the Mississippi River on Wisconsin's western border, is respresentative of such historical transformation.

This marsh became the focus of a 2005-2006 investigation by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and...

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