River Lessons — Videos by Wild Trout Trust

Mar 30, 2020

Editor’s Note: This post on river lessons by the Wild Trout Trust was written by Steve Grimmer, Little River’s Artist Mechanic. On our Youtube channel we have a playlist called Emriver in Action that’s full of cool videos of our models out in the world helping...

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Our Steve and a custom Emriver at the Science Center of Southern Illinois

Sep 28, 2012

Carbondale residents visit the Science Center’s custom Emriver Thursday night after the Science Cafe talk. LRRD founder Steve Gough spoke Thursday night at the Science Cafe in the Science Center of Southern Illinois. Steve talked about flood science, especially...

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Never ending flood suffering. A recipe.

May 19, 2011

This flood is causing terrible human suffering and economic loss.  In southern Illinois, thousands are in shelters, many here in Carbondale. It’s easy to focus on that suffering now, and talk about simple short-term fixes.  But only a sober view of this disaster...

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The New York Times falls down on this flood.

May 17, 2011

As this historic flood moves through the Middle and Lower Mississippi Valley the paper of record gives us articles like this, here with my annotations. Nothing about why this flood happened, no history, no science, no informed analysis. Nothing that might prevent the...

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Bigger, stronger levees are not the answer.

May 16, 2011

Thanks to Jon Remo for this guest post. As the Mississippi River Flood of 2011 reaches the Gulf of Mexico much attention has been paid to the system of levees, floodwalls, flood retention dams and floodways constructed under the Mississippi River and Tributaries...

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