Wetland Morning
MISSISSIPPI RIVER RIVERINE WETLANDS, TWO RIVERS WILDLIFE REFUGE, ILLINOIS
I spent the morning wandering through the flooded Mississippi River, with my jeep and in waders.
This ecologically termed ‘Riverine Wetland Forest’ classically floods once or twice a year submerging the roots and trunks of these trees. The Two Rivers Wildlife Refuge is the beginning of a patchwork of almost 100,000 acres of northern land and water.
Through the cooperation of COE, DNR, FWS, Nature Conservancy and regional private ownership, this ecoregion is devoted to wildlife, conservation of wild land/water and holding much of North America’s, mid-continent biodiversity, along the migratory Mississippi flyway. This image sparkled, as I looked out from the forest into the Mississippi.
Life in the Postcard, Photographic Gallery in the Historic
