This stone revetment structure along the Hatchie – Loosahatchie channel is part of an ongoing effort by the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Memphis District to maintain the Mississippi River's channel integrity. The USACE Memphis District recently partnered with the Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee to study and find feasible solutions to improve the Hatchie – Loosahatchie channel. Over the course of the study, they will examine restoring ecological structure and function along the Mississippi River including side channels like this, and other aquatic habitat; floodplain
This stone revetment structure along the Hatchie – Loosahatchie channel is part of an ongoing effort by the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Memphis District to maintain the Mississippi River's channel integrity. The USACE Memphis District recently partnered with the Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee to study and find feasible solutions to improve the Hatchie – Loosahatchie channel. Over the course of the study, they will examine restoring ecological structure and function along the Mississippi River including side channels like this, and other aquatic habitat; floodplain forests; and several scarce vegetative communities—wetlands, canebrakes, riverfront forests and bottom land hardwood forests. The project would benefit a variety of native species including the interior least tern, and the listed pallid sturgeon, fat pocketbook mussel, and Indiana and northern long-eared bats, as well as raptors, migratory waterfowl, songbirds, mammals, fish, and other aquatic organisms.
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