River

The Mississippi River is highly regarded as the most important river in Louisiana. One of the lesser known rivers is just as phenomenal, however. The Atchafalaya River (pronounced At-cha-fa-lie-uh), which is adjacent to the Louisianan southern half of the Mississippi River, is so much of a phenomena that the United States Army Corps has been put in charge of controlling the river! The first settlers of the Atchafalaya River Basin were different Native American Tribes, including the Houma, Chitimacha

The Atchafalaya River was created over 1000 years ago. It was formed because of the mighty Mississippi river. It plays a very important role in the everyday lives of the Louisiana people. The conceivable redirection of the Mississippi River and man1s push to oppose it, present one of the best stream designing issues ever experienced. The proof that backings the case that catch of the Mississippi by the Atchafalaya is inevitable, is accessible and plentiful. Information on the decay of the limit of

ONCE BEAUTIFUL RIVER GONE TO THE FISHES? If I said green, grimy and Adelaide, your mind would instantly race to the contaminated River Torrens. The River Torrens makes up a 85km stretch of the Murray-Darling Basin and is vital to the water security of Australia. But, yet it used to flow on a seasonal basis through and would have been used for leisure activities, such as swimming. If you looked at the River Torrens now you could never tell that’s what it was used for, and instead, you can see the

Since the settlement of the American West, rivers have experienced changes in the natural flows and movements. Among these processes flooding has become controlled as dams have been built. Esselman et al. (2011) tracked numerous categories of anthropocentric activities through geographical informational systems. The team found that upstream fish habitats were exponentially impacted by human activities downstream. In addition to the upstream movement of impacts human impacts also travel downstream

While rafting down the Chilko River, Ron Thompson, a seasoned river guide with thirteen years of experience, had his raft high side on a rock. When the raft high sided and all but one of his guests fell out into the river. Due to the strong rapids five of the guests died. This is a tragedy that should not have happened on the river considering it is not nearly close enough to being one of the major rivers in Canada. The problem of where this happened on the river, Lava Canyon, is about how long

study of the earth. With that being said it breaks down into the study of land, weather, people, the migration of people, their role in altering nature, and the effect of nature on the people. Today I’m going to write about a piece of the Manistee River that’s near and dear to me. It’s a small plot of land just south of the 45th parallel. The area is Springfield Township in Fife Lake Michigan. This is now my father’s final resting place, which is fitting because it was his favorite place to sit and

Two Rivers is a campground not too far from Sartell, I have been there countless times throughout my childhood. It is called two Rivers because the Mississippi River and the Platte River connect at a bay that surrounds the entire campground. The Platte River is much smaller than the Mississippi, which makes it popular to tub on, like a giant lazy river at a water park. Tubing on the River is one of the most popular activities, with that you can also canoe and kayak. Most years the water in low and

and as we reached the bottom, the view opened up into a beautiful river standing before me. I’ll never forget the first time I saw that stretch of the river. The summer sun glistened off the crystal-clear, slow-flowing water that drifted past tall hemlock-lined banks, over and around protruding chunks of bedrock, and then sped up slightly as it splashed over a small waterfall 20-yards downstream. For the most part, the river was between ankle and knee deep, and as I looked across, I could see

The Mississippi River and the Atchafalaya River Basin The Mississippi River is one of the world’s major river systems not only in size, but in habitat diversity as well. It is the third longest river in North America. It flows 2,350 miles from its source at Lake Itasca through the center of the United States to the Gulf of Mexico. When the Mississippi is compared to other world rivers, it ranks fourth in length (3,710 miles/5,970 km) following right behind the Yangtze Rivers (3,964 miles/6,378

the Nahuatl word Xochiatl, the Suchiate river is both a membrane and a vessel. Between its banks, lies a basin of placid blue which swiftly gives way to narrow inlets of muddy brown. At these thin arms, the water does not run unaccompanied on its journey; instead, the brown body, soaked in a fleeting dream, permeated by a notion of progress, joins as a fellow traveler. Carefully placing driftwood atop thick inner tubes, the bodies float across the thinnest river veins as though blood and water were