![]() I’ve been getting to know this river and its people for over a decade. The Mississippi River cuts a 2,300-mile course through the heart of the United States and a deep path through the imaginations of people around the world. We collaborate with communities, organizations, and agencies to foster conservation by both developing and supporting the trail. Since 2007, MRWTA has coordinated volunteers and events on the river to insure quality, affordable, recreational and educational opportunities and to promote safe public use of the trail. The Mississippi River Water Trail is a magnificent destination for paddlers, close to home for millions of people, as well as scenic, and healing. Louis Arch and attracts people from all over the world. ![]() The Mississippi is the river that flows past the origin of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the St. Mississippi River Water Trail, a National Water Trail since 2012, encompasses 121 miles of the Mississippi River including the confluence of the two longest rivers in the country, 75 sites including 62 rest areas and 17 camping areas, three lock and dams, and spanning two states, rural areas and a large urban area St Louis Missouri. Through story, through listening, A House Unbuilt creates opportunity for others to reconsider and reimagine the place where they are from, the people that surround them, and the time that they live in.ģ21 Main Street S, Suite 204, Stillwater, MN, 55082 Story is only ever captured in part and creates great opportunity for empathy. Story is a confluence of individual landscapes, voices, and movements, and this is vital to our approach to both gathering and sharing ourselves. We believe that all that we are is story. Listening with the body is a radical practice that can open more ears and create greater possibility for civil discourse.Ī House Unbuilt perceives story as an embodied object, existing in time, continuous. Our bodies can bring the incomprehensible paradoxes of our times to a human scale. Our bodies are immediate, a physical presence with the power to intervene in systems much larger than themselves. Through the use of movement and listening with the body, these activities operate together to engage and investigate the social fabric of communities. The work of A House Unbuilt is research, performance, and activism. Here historic sites speak to the timeless connection between people and the river.Įnvision a river accessible to all and a community that actively embraces this river ethic and welcomes its role as the Mississippi River’s steward for current and future generations.ġ01 East Fifth Street, Suite 2000 | Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101 ![]() You can stroll through oak savannas and sand prairies alive with the diversity of our natural heritage. Here you can catch fish that are healthy to eat. This is a river where residents and visitors can escape the rush of daily life to find solitude in a hidden backwater, mystery beside ancient mounds, and the wonder of paddling past towering bluffs. Imagine with us a river where the water is clear and clean and safe to swim in, where fish and wildlife are healthy and abundant, and where scenic bluffs and cultural treasures are protected. To create a desire and opportunity for citizens to take an active role in helping to make a cleaner river environment.įriends of the Mississippi River engages people to protect, restore and enhance the Mississippi River and its watershed in the Twin Cities region.įriends of the Mississippi River envisions a river that is recognized and celebrated for its intrinsic values. To expand awareness of environmental issues and responsibility encompassing our rivers. To aid in the protection, preservation, and restoration of the natural environment of our nation’s major rivers and their watersheds. ![]() But, what’s a win to us? Our mission is threefold: Spending up to nine months a year living and traveling on the barge, the Living Lands & Waters crew hosts river cleanups, watershed conservation initiatives, workshops, tree plantings and other key conservation efforts. Since the organization was founded, Living Lands & Waters has grown to be the only “industrial strength” river cleanup organization like it in the world. Headquartered in East Moline, Illinois, Living Lands & Waters is a 501 (c)(3) environmental organization that was established by Chad Pregracke in 1998.
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