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Restoring
the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers
Low-Cost Alternatives for Improving Transportation
Efficiencies on the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers
Restoring the Upper Mississippi and Illinois
Rivers
Tuesday,
March 23, 2004, 2253 Rayburn HOB
The briefing
featured discussions of the environmental restoration plans
for the Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers by the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, state
partners, and conservation interests.
The session
focused on the draft recommendations for environmental restoration
improvements that have been developed through the Corps' Upper
Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway System Navigation
Study. By way of introduction, the briefing will provide an
overview of the ecologically diverse and economically valuable
habitat and fish and wildlife populations of the Upper Mississippi
and Illinois rivers as well as the various pressures and threats
they currently face. Speakers will also highlight examples
of successful restoration efforts on the Mississippi and Illinois
Rivers that could be built upon and extended through the proposed
large-scale restoration initiative.
Speakers
included:
- Denny
Lundberg, Program Manager, Upper Mississippi River-Illinois
Waterway (UMR-IWW) System Navigation Study, U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers (Rock Island)
- Rick
Nelson, Field Supervisor, Ecological Services, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service (Rock Island)
- Michael
Reuter, Chief Conservation Officer, Illinois Chapter, The
Nature Conservancy
- Holly
Stoerker, Executive Director, Upper Mississippi River Basin
Association
Click
here to review the UMR Restoration Proposal Overview
Low-Cost
Alternatives for Improving Transportation Efficiencies on
the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers
Monday, December 15, 2003, HC-6
A panel
of experts discussed recent developments with the Restructured
Upper Mississippi River - Illinois Waterway System Navigation
Study. Speakers will examine assumptions and costs associated
with various alternatives for reducing transportation delays
on the Mississippi and Illinois rivers.
Speakers
included:
- Dr.
Ray Mundy, Director of the Center for Transportation Studies
at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL).
- Scott
Faber, Senior Attorney at Environmental Defense
- Dr.
Robert Stearns, Visiting Professor, University of Maryland
School of Public Affairs and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Army, Civil Works.
- Mark
Muller, Director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade
Policy's Environment and Agriculture Program, served as
moderator.
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