{"id":6020,"date":"2021-10-07T12:15:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T17:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewn.erdc.dren.mil\/?p=6020"},"modified":"2021-10-08T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:47:47","slug":"water-level-management-for-enhanced-fish-and-wildlife-habitat-production-in-upper-mississippi-river-navigation-pools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewn.erdc.dren.mil\/water-level-management-for-enhanced-fish-and-wildlife-habitat-production-in-upper-mississippi-river-navigation-pools\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical Report: Water Level Management for Enhanced Fish and Wildlife Habitat in Upper MS River Navigation Pools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new EWN<sub>\u00ae<\/sub> technical report is available, <em>Water Level Management for Enhanced Fish and Wildlife Habitat Production in Upper Mississippi River Navigation Pools<\/em>. This report describes projects successfully incorporating Engineering With Nature<sub>\u00ae<\/sub>&nbsp;principles in a review of the physical setting and historical fish and wildlife habitat management efforts using Upper Mississippi River System navigation dams. Several experiments revealed the capacity to produce thousands of hectares of emergent and submersed aquatic plants, restoring much-needed riparian habitat for a variety of aquatic, wetland, and avian species. Read more in <a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.erdc.dren.mil\/?page_id=375#epm-sept21\">Publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authors: Charles Theiling, Benjamin McGuire, Gretchen Benjamin, Dave Busse, Jon Hendrickson, Kevin Kenow, Kevin Landwehr, Tim Schlagenhaft, and Mary Stefanski <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This report is a product of an EWN research work unit, <a href=\"\/?p=5066\">Environmental Pool Management: An EWN Innovation for Advancing USACE Water Operations Practice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new EWN\u00ae technical report is available, Water Level Management for Enhanced Fish and Wildlife Habitat Production in Upper Mississippi River Navigation Pools. This report describes projects successfully incorporating Engineering With Nature\u00ae&nbsp;principles in a review of the physical setting and historical fish and wildlife habitat management efforts using Upper Mississippi River System navigation dams. 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