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Ready to help you chart the towboats you see up and down the river, this guide includes maps, fun facts and a list of towboats that frequent the Upper Mississippi. Record your towboat sightings and see how many you can list this season. Softcover, 2002, 64 pages. $8.95 plus $2.00 shipping. more

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Back Issues of Big River 2002
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January-February 2002

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March-April 2002

Spring Travel Issue: State Parks on the Mississippi River

Photo Essay: Locking Through

Book review: The Last River Rat. Kenny Salwey's life in the wild

Belted Kingfishers

May-June 2002

Festivals on the Mississippi

Urban river getaway: North Mississippi Regional Park in Minneapolis

The Project that changed the river: the Melvin Price Dam near Alton, Illinois

The mysterious leatherback: softshell turtles

July-August 2002

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September-October 2002

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November-December 2002

River Java - Coffeehouses along the Mississippi

Great river reading
Books about Henry Bosse, commercial fishing, steamboating, river explorers. And the new Navigation Maps are here.

Old decoys - a duck hunter's daughter and her memories

Back Issues of Big River 2001

January 2001

Corps bosses busted

Shakespeare's rescue - book in the river!

Eagle watching in Wabasha

Great Horned Owls and the Eastern Kingbird

February 2001

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March 2001

Mud, Mississippi mud

Unexploded ordnance at the Savanna Army Depot

Ospreys and eagles

April 2001

Navigation Study declared useless

Thirteen things you can do for a healthier river

St. Anthony Falls on foot

Spring swallows and swifts

May-June 2001

Camping on Mississippi River islands

Freshwater Drum

Mississippi River Museum in Dubuque, Iowa

The Cerulean warbler, monarchs and green darners

July-August 2001

Flood of 2001 — special report

The singing ranger — Charlie Maguire sings for the river

Sailing on Lake Pepin

Frog hawks and chicken hawks

September-October 2001

Biking the Great River Trail

Fishing in the Twin Cities

The man with 900 outboard motors

Restaurant review: Spruce Harbor Inn

Mallards: Adabtable dabblers and drakes in drag

November-December 2001

Building your own kayak

Great river reading: take an armchair trip down the Mississippi with these travelogues

Restaurant review: Alma Hotel

Pool 8 drawdown

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