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	Publications about the Minnesota River Basin - Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
		The 1,284 square mile Cottonwood River Watershed is situated between the Little Cottonwood River Sub-Watershed to the east and the Redwood River Watershed to the west.
		The position of this moraine indicates that the valley of the Cottonwood was developed along the southwest margin of the Des Moines lobe of the last glacier, at a time when the ice recession was halted and the moraine that parallels the valley was formed.
		Seasonal patterns often influence flow discharge patterns in the Cottonwood River; the general trend is for flows to increase in spring, peak in late spring to early summer, and decline through late summer.
	www.pca.state.mn.us /water/basins/mnriver/cottonwood.html (2877 words)

	Minnesota Encyclopedia, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Minnesota is the largest state by land area in the Midwestern United States and is in the sub-region known as the Upper Midwest.
		Minnesota is not strongly associated with any particular food, though in recent years dishes like wild rice sausage have come from the state and more will undoubtedly follow as Minnesotan chefs seek to define their home in the culinary world.
		Minnesota is the northernmost of the 48 contiguous states (Alaska reaches significantly farther north), reaching to 49° 23' 04" north latitude, due to a small piece of the state known as the Northwest Angle.
	encyclopedia.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/Minnesota (3849 words)

	Minnesota River Watershed
		Minnesota's portion of the basin is intensely agricultural and represents 18.5% of the state's land mass and 29% of its cultivated land.
		The Minnesota River Valley Birding Trail spans the Minnesota River watershed from its headwaters near the South Dakota border to its confluence with the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities.
		The Minnesota River is muddy and polluted to the extent that swimming is not recommended, and anglers are warned to limit consumption of fish taken from the river.
	kare.iewatershed.com /index.php?pagename=ow_watershed_minnesota (2055 words)

	List of Minnesota rivers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Portage River, a tributary of Moose Horn River
		Portage River, a tributary of Nina Moose River
		Snake River, a tributary of the Elk River
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Minnesota_rivers (554 words)

	Cottonwood River - State canoe routes: Minnesota DNR
		Today, the Cottonwood River, a ribbon of weaving water flowing swiftly in some stretches, slowly in others, slices through deep "drift" deposited by glaciers that covered Minnesota more than 10,000 years ago.
		The canoeable portion of the river begins at Springfield and ends when it empties into the Minnesota River near New Ulm, a distance of about 58 river miles.
		The take-out point is either at the Cottonwood Street bridge near Highway 15 or you can continue on down to the confluence of the Minnesota River and then several miles downstream to the Courtland access.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /canoeing/cottonwoodriver/index.html (291 words)

	The Minnesota River Basin: Nitrogen Loads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Water quality in the Minnesota River Basin is often impaired with the primary pollutants being pathogens, biochemical oxygen demand, sediment, and phosphorus.
		Nitrate-N yields for other major drainage basins in the Mississippi River catchment are 1.7 kg/km/d for the Ohio River, 4.0 kg/km/d for the Iowa River, 4.4 kg/km/d for the Illinois River, and 0.2 kg/km/d for the Missouri River.
		Thus, the yield of nitrate-N from the Minnesota River basin is comparable to that of the Ohio River.
	www.ctic.purdue.edu /kyw/abstracts/mulla.html (1197 words)

	Minnesota River Basin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Minnesota River is currently plagued by various pollutants, which results in a highly clouded river that is unfit for swimming and supporting some forms of aquatic life.
		The Minnesota River is located in the southwestern portion of Minnesota and stretches 335 miles from the western border of Minnesota to its confluence with the Mississippi River at Fort Snelling (Figure 1).
		Agriculture in the basin is important to the state's economy and revenues; it produces 41 percent of Minnesota's corn, 51 percent of its soybeans, 11 percent of its wheat, 41 percent of its hogs, and 22 percent of its beef.
	www.environmentaleducationohio.org /Biosphere/Case%20Studies/minnesota.html (4788 words)

	Regional Landscape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		(Minnesota River prairie) Portions of the Des Moines lobe till plains (Olivia and Blue Earth till plains) and the Minnesota River Valley; tallgrass prairie.
		Sporadic exposures of Sioux quartzite of the upper Precambrian occur in northeastern Cottonwood County and southwestern Brown County in the southeast (Morey 1981, Olsen and Mossler 1982).
		A Minnesota Department of Natural Resources map of "probable original wetlands" shows a large percentage of poorly drained or wet mineral soils, but these soils are broken into much smaller topographic units than the soils of the Red River Valley as a result of the more dissected topography of the ground moraine.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/1998/rlandscp/sub2-1.htm (1164 words)

	Little Cottonwood River Stop 1
		The Little Cottonwood River Watershed encompasses a strip of land along the river that spans three counties (map, chart) and covers 108,757 acres (170 square miles).
		The watershed is part of the Middle Minnesota Major Watershed of the Minnesota River Basin in south-central Minnesota (location map).
		The source of the Little Cottonwood River is a large county drainage ditch (JD 9) that was constructed in 1997.
	mrbdc.mnsu.edu /major/midminn/subshed/lcotwd/lc_2.html (298 words)

	Minnesota River Prairie
		Minnesota River Prairie is a subsection of the North Central Glaciated Plains Section of the Prairie Parkland Province.
		The northeastern border with the Red River Prairie is based on the interface between the southern extent of the Agassiz Lake Plain and Des Moines moraines on the south.
		River bottom forest, consisting of silver maple, elm, cottonwood, and willow, populated the river valleys.
	www.mnmodel.dot.state.mn.us /chapters/mnrp.htm (1377 words)

	Cottonwood River
		The mission of the Cottonwood River Restoration Project is to promote sustainable conservation land use changes through establishing watershed identity and by cooperatively working to increase watershed awareness that will lead to the restoration of the river's environmental health and increased recreational use.
		The purpose of a the initial phase of this project between 1997 and 1999 was to document factors affecting sediment and nutrient transport to the Cottonwood River, and to determine reductions necessary to meet both main stem and tributary goals.
		The Cottonwood River Watershed encompasses 1,310 square miles, and is one of thirteen major watersheds in the Minnesota River Basin.
	www.rcrca.com /cr_home.htm (1033 words)

	Minnesota Secretary of State - Elections
		River so named by the Dakotas because of heavy use by Ojibway war parties to access the Minnesota River valley.
		Cottonwood is a translation of Waraju, the Dakota name for the river, reflecting the abundance of the tree on its banks.
		The St. Louis River was named by the French explorer Verendrye in honor of being awarded the order of St. Louis by the King of France in 1749.
	www.sos.state.mn.us /student/coorigan.html (1900 words)

	Minnesota Property, Home Rentals, Homes For Rent, Rental Houses - Condos in Minnesota
		We are a searchable database of Minnesota home rentals, homes for rent, rental homes, rental houses, houses for rent, condos for rent in Minnesota Minnesota, homes for rent in Minnesota MN, houses for rent, duplexes, town homes, lofts, condo rentals and other properties for rent and can be searched for FREE.
		Minnesota Rental home listings are for rent, homes for lease, homes for lease option, lease purchase homes, rent to own, as well as Minnesota condos for rent.
		Again Minnesota Minnesota rental types includes: home rentals, townhomes for rent, house rentals, rental homes, rental houses, homes for rent, houses for rent, lofts, condos for rent, condo rentals, duplexes for rent and even Minnesota homes for lease purchase.
	www.homerentalads.com /minnesota (527 words)

	Coteau des Prairies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Coteau des Prairies is a plateau, approximately 200 miles in length and 100 miles in width, rising from the prairie flatlands in eastern South Dakota and southwestern Minnesota in the United States.
		During the last Pleistocene ice age, two lobes of the glacier probably parted around the preexisting plateau and further deepened the lowlands flanking the plateau.
		The plateau has numerous small glacial lakes and is drained by the Big Sioux River in South Dakota and the Cottonwood River in Minnesota.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coteau_des_Prairies (204 words)

	Smooth Softshell Turtle, Apalone muticus muticus
		The smooth softshell is a large Minnesota turtle and grows to a carapace length of 14 inches in females (Conant and Collins, 1991).
		The smooth softshell is found in the Mississippi, St. Croix, and Minnesota Rivers in Minnesota.
		This location is closer to the water than Minnesotas other turtle species, so many females are not observed (and killed) on their way to lay the 12 to 30 eggs.
	www.herpnet.net /Minnesota-Herpetology/turtles/smoothsoftshell_turtle.html (774 words)

	Case Study #8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		One particular region in southwest Minnesota, which is now Murray County, is drained by three major watersheds: the Redwood and Cottonwood River systems, which drain into the Minnesota River; the Des Moines River, which flows to the Mississippi; and the Rock River, which winds south to join the Missouri River.
		Minnesota was not totally devoid of effort to protect surface waters during this period.
		In 1951, a "Save the Wetlands" program was enacted in Minnesota, which used federal funds to acquire wetlands for state wildlife management areas.15 In 1955, a new Minnesota state law required that the conservation of soil, water, forests, and wild animals be considered in the determination of the benefits of a proposed drainage system.
	www.mhhe.com /biosci/pae/environmentalscience/casestudies/case8.mhtml (3492 words)

	Minnesota History
		Minnesota Historical Center - The Minnesota Historical Society, located in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a private, non-profit educational and cultural institution established in 1849 to preserve and share Minnesota history.
		Northwest Minnesota Historical Center - History and culture of the Red River Valley of the North is collected and preserved at this center, located in Moorhead, Minnesota.
		Southwest Minnesota Regional Research Center - This center, located in Marshall, Minnesota, began in 1972 and is the official public records repository for the following counties of southwestern Minnesota: Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac Qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Meeker, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood, Renville, Rock, and Yellowstone.
	www.mnstate.edu /archives/NorthwestMN/MinnesotaHistory.htm (384 words)

	MN River Basin Organizations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Activities include "Ambassadors for the Minnesota River", outreach and education, guidance and coordination for grassroots organizations, and advise and assist government in its activities related to improvement of the river.
		The objective of the project is to restore riparian forests in the Minnesota River Valley, with an emphasis on floodplain protection.
		Minnesota Rural Partners serves as the coordinator for meetings of federal, state, and local agencies and organizations where subprojects are developed.
	www.soils.agri.umn.edu /research/mn-river/doc/mnwatorg.html (2393 words)

	Platte River Ecosystem Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Migratory bird habitat on the Platte and North Platte rivers in Nebraska.
		Distribution of sandhill cranes in the North Platte River valley, 1980 and 1989.
		Frith, C.R. Crane habitat of the Platte River.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/othrdata/platte2/litcited.htm (4271 words)

	Cottonwood River Technology Center in Springfield, Minnesota/MN - School Tree
		Cottonwood River Technology Center is a "Regional education services agency, or a county superintendent serving the same purpose".
		Cottonwood River Technology Center is associated with "a recognized population nucleus and adjacent communities that have a high degree of integration with that nucleus, and designated by the U.S. Government as a metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area".
		Statistics for Cottonwood River Technology Center are not available because the required data was not received from the agency.
	minnesota.schooltree.org /district/Cottonwood-River-Technology-Center-007221.html (239 words)

	IRRS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Minnesota River; A gentel river seldomm interrupted by the rapids, the Minnesota is one of the few canoeable rivers in southwestern Minnesota (On a good day) and offers some of the most impressive landscapes in this part of the state.
		The banks along this stretch of river are heavily forested with maple, elm, cottonwood and willow.
		Away from the river the high granite domes are covered with cedar and oak.
	www.southwest.msus.edu /regional/Teaching/IRRS/canoetrip.htm (196 words)

	drainage.
		In the 355 miles from where it begins at Browns Valley, to where it joins the Mississippi River at Fort Snelling in Minneapolis, the Minnesota is joined by smaller rivers, including the Chippewa, the Pomme de Terre, the Hawk, the Lac Qui Parle, the Yellow Medicine, the Redwood and the Blue Earth.
		The Minnesota southwestern watersheds, the Lac qui Parle, the Yellow Medicine, the Redwood, and the Cottonwood Rivers, contribute 4,653 square miles of drainage.
		The Blue Earth River, from the south, contributes 3,106 square miles of watershed drainage.
	www.isd77.k12.mn.us /schools/dakota/mnriver/drainage.htm (462 words)

	River Campgrounds
		The river has a mild current and is a bit deep to wade here but creates some great dry fly fishing right from the shore.
		It is probably the deepest on the river and contains the heaviest population of trout for it's size on the river.
		It is on the side of the river where there is no foot access, and there is no reason for passing boats to stop here either.
	www.fishgreenriver.com /river_campgrounds.htm (2247 words)

	The Nature Conservancy in Minnesota - Wahpeton Prairie
		The Ingalls' dugout and sod home were on the bank of Plum Creek - a Cottonwood River tributary - a few miles south of this prairie preserve near Walnut Grove.
		It also features an oxbow lake, which was formed when the Cottonwood River abandoned its original channel.
		The Cottonwood River also periodically floods the land.
	www.nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/minnesota/preserves/art12272.html (373 words)

	Planting Trees in Minnesota
		White pine cannot be recommended for planting in some parts of Minnesota because of the virtual certainty of white pine blister rust infection.
		The Minnesota Division of Forestry is responsible for checking your land to determine whether tree planting is allowable.
		University of Minnesota Extension is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
	www.extension.umn.edu /distribution/naturalresources/DD0481.html (3288 words)

	Cottonwood Newsletter
		Cottonwood Foundationís ten-member grants committee and its board of directors devoted many dozens of hours to reviewing and discussing the applications.
		Cottonwood Foundation is a tax-exempt charitable organization, run entirely by volunteers and with no paid staff, that provides small grants to grassroots organizations worldwide that are working for a sustainable future.
		Cottonwood awards grants to organizations that combine all of the following: protecting the environment, promoting cultural diversity, empowering people to meet their basic needs, and relying on volunteers.
	www.cottonwoodfdn.org /newsletter-00.html (2086 words)

	Sediment and Phosphorus Reductions in the Minnesota River and its Tributaries
		Producers from the Minnesota River Agricultural Team (MNRAT), an advisory task force created by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA), have been asking whether or not the improved land practices adopted by producers are improving the quality of water in the Minnesota River.
		The magnitudes of the reduction at the Minnesota River near St. Peter were an annual decrease of 2666 metric tons in total suspended solids (2.9%/yr reduction) and 3 metric tons of total phosphorus (1.5%/yr reduction).
		Annual increases during June ranged from 3,086 metric t/yr in the Minnesota River at St. Peter (3.3%/yr of median load) to 6 t/yr in the Pomme de Terre watershed (1.3%/yr increase in median load).
	www.soils.umn.edu /research/mn-river/doc/trends.html (1706 words)

	Minnesota River flooding is possible
		Water that spilled from the Cottonwood River into a low area of New Ulm receded Thursday, but the larger Minnesota River was not expected to crest there until Sunday at 1.6 feet above flood stage.
		The Minnesota River is expected to crest at flood stage in Jordan Wednesday.
		Attention is on the Minnesota River because southern Minnesota has some of the state's deepest snow.
	www.startribune.com /462/story/1056483.html (571 words)

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