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Topic: Mississippi River

Coast Salish Water Protectors and others demonstrate against the expansion of Texas-based Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline project in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada on March 10, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Jason Redmond (Photo credit should read JASON REDMOND/AFP/Getty Images) (Jason Redmond/Getty Images)

The Salish and Kootenai climate plan

Carly Graf - Grist
Idle fishing boats sit at the docks May 3, 2010 in Pass Christian, Mississippi. The fleet are confined to port since the shutdown of all fishing on the Gulf Coast due to the oil spill from the BP Deepwater Horizon platform disaster. AFP PHOTO/Stan Honda (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images) (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)

Legal dumping descimates these fisheries

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
In this Thursday, May 23, 2019 photo, floodwaters overtake a home in Holly Bluff, Mississippi. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

Storm may force flooding acres of farms

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
(Michel Varisco)

Lara Naughton - Narratively
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Mayflies seize bridge

Lindsay Abrams

Jason Berry - ProPublica
A steamer docked on the Mississippi River at the New Orleans French Quarter (Chuck Wagner/Shutterstock)

JANET McCONNAUGHEY
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Jeff Biggers - Alternet
(Reuters/Jason Reed)

Salon Staff