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Boyce Upholt on The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

Boyce Upholt on The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

Update: 2025-11-03
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Journalist Boyce Upholt talks about the history and geography of the Mississippi River and human attempts to control it going back to the Founding Era. He discusses how government-built levees, dikes, and dams have transformed the landscape and ecosystem along the 2,340-mile-long Mississippi and the impact that commerce, floods, and pollution have had on the population along its banks.


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Boyce Upholt on The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

Boyce Upholt on The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

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