There are 11 national wildlife refuges along the two rivers, the largest of which is the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. The funding comes from the Inflation Reduction Act.
For the past few decades, the trees that grow in the Mississippi River floodplain ... up the total to give to the Army Corps and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, both of which have foresters ...
The Mississippi River is managed in large part by the Army ... the shipping industry and federal environmental agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey.