basin overview
   
virtual tours   animations        

Explore the Minnesota River Basin by taking
a tour of the mainstem or tributary rivers

These require the flash plug-in.
Download here.
       
Minnesota River Virtual Tour

3-D Virtual Tour

High Island Creek Watershed Tour


Little Cottonwood River Tour

Rush River Watershed Tour


Seven Mile Creek Tour

Glaciation (0.5 mb)

Valley Formation (0.5 mb)
Wetland Loss (1.1 mb)
Wetland Restoration (1.6 mb)
Interactive Hydrograph (3.2 mb)

Lakeshore Development (6.0 mb)
basin fact sheets
 

Basin Basics
Basin Fast Facts


Come for a Visit

Minnesota-Mississippi Rivers


River Profile

Watershed

Watersheds Across Scales


Wetlands


   
History
Minnesota River Timeline

Glaciation

Valley Formation


Floods


Historic Images
(1830s)

Steamboating
(1850s)

Place Names


Wetlands
floods
     

Landscape & Wildlife
Birds
| Birding Resources

Fish


Mammals

Prairies

Wetlands

What is it? Intriguing Places


 
 
 

Water Quality

State of the Minnesota River Reports

State of the Minnesota River: Water Quality Monitoring Summary 2000-2005

Water Quality Overview


Advancing the Clean Up


 
                             
 
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This page was last updated 11/07
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