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Gilbert Fowler White (November 26, 1911 – October 5, 2006) was a prominent American geographer, sometimes termed the "father of floodplain management" and the "leading environmental geographer of the 20th century" (Wescoat, 2006).
The Mississippi River's floodplain forests are a vital habitat but many are dying. Here's what to know. What to know about floodplain forests, a struggling ecosystem on the Mississippi River
Map of the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway is a flood control component of the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project located on the west bank of the Mississippi River in southeast Missouri just below the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. [1]
It regulates the flow of water from the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya River, thereby preventing the Mississippi River from changing course. Completed in 1963, the complex was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a side channel of the Mississippi known as "Old River", between the Mississippi's current channel and the Atchafalaya Basin ...
A lack of good data and floodplain maps is a widespread problem for communities, Berginnis said. "We have 3.5 million miles of streams, rivers, and coastlines in the country. We've mapped 1.2 ...
A flood insurance rate map (FIRM) is an official map of a community within the United States that displays the floodplains, more explicitly special hazard areas and risk premium zones, as delineated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). [1]
Thin layer placement is typically used on the coasts to combat sea-level rise. This is the first time it's being used on the Mississippi River to restore floodplain forests.
Batture lands are hydrologically linked to the Mississippi River, flood-prone, and contain remnant habitat for “big river” species (e.g., pallid sturgeon) as well as river-front plant communities; they are too narrow to map as a separate Level IV ecoregion. Earthquakes in the early nineteenth century offset river courses in Ecoregion 73.
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