Environment

• Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana

• Friends of the Mississippi River.  Working to protect and enhance the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities area

• Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee

• Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center.  National Weather Service

• Mississippi Basin Carbon Project.  "The USGS Mississippi Basin Carbon Project conducts research on the carbon budget in soils and sediments of the Mississippi River basin. The project focuses on the effects of land-use change on carbon storage and transport, nutrient cycles, and erosion and sedimentation throughout the Mississippi River Basin."

• Mississippi Headwaters Board

• Mississippi River Basin Alliance

• Mississippi River Basin, Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• Mississippi River Research Consortium

• Mississippi Riverside Environmental Research Station.  University of Iowa center near Muscatine, Iowa.

• Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center.  USGS

• Upper Mississippi Basin Stakeholder Network

• Upper Mississippi River Campaign.  National Audubon Society.

• Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee

The Environmental Movement and the Mississippi

• The Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee
• Mississippi Headwaters Board
• McPhee, John. The Control of Nature. New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1989.
• Merritt, Raymond H. The Corps, the Environment, and the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Washington: Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1984.
• Reuss, Martin. "Engineers, Science, and the Public Interest: Water Resources Planning in the Atchafalaya Basin." Journal of Policy History 3 (1991): 282-308.
• Scarpino, Philip V. Great River: An Environmental History of the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1950. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985.
• Steinberg, Theodore. "Identity Crisis in Bayou Country." In Slide Mountain or The Folly of Owning Nature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, 52-81.