Author Archives: Madeline Heim / Milwaukee Journal SentinelReport for America corps member

Madeline Heim is a Report for America corps member who writes about environmental challenges in the Mississippi River watershed and across Wisconsin. Contact her at 920-996-7266 or mheim@gannett.com.

mheim@gannett.com

A man wearing a light brown winter coat and a light green winter hat kneels and dips a measuring stick into a hole in ice.

Ice cover on the upper Mississippi River was fleeting this winter. Is this our future?

by Madeline Heim / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel March 27, 2024 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Eagles spread their wings just above the water.

It’s prime eagle-watching time on the upper Mississippi River: Here’s how to get the best views

by Madeline Heim / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel March 15, 2024 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

The University of Minnesota women’s rowing team rows on the Mississippi River near a bridge.

Upper Mississippi River flooding unlikely after relatively dry winter

by Madeline Heim / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel March 5, 2024 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Farm equipment harvests soybeans in a field.

Latest farm data ‘a wake-up call’ as Midwest farmers face ever steeper challenges

by Mónica Cordero / Investigate Midwest, Erin Jordan / The Gazette, Brittney J. Miller / The Gazette, Madeline Heim / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Chris Clayton / DTN/The Progressive Farmer March 1, 2024 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Aerial view shows Mississippi River wetlands.

Renewed legislation aims to safeguard Mississippi River amid growing environmental concerns

by Madeline Heim / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel February 13, 2024 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

A tugboat on a river is in the background. A lock and dam structure is in the foreground.

Here’s how the locks and dams on the Mississippi River work — and why they exist

by Madeline Heim / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel December 28, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Aerial view of the confluence of the Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers

How much trash does the Mississippi River funnel from Midwest to Gulf of Mexico?

by Madeline Heim / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel December 26, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

A farmer walks among cattle.

Farm conservation programs offer solutions to climate threats, but they’re vastly underfunded

by Erin Jordan / The Gazette, Madeline Heim / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Mónica Cordero / Investigate Midwest November 17, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

A barge on the Mississippi River

Mississippi River basin residents worry about environment, but few know they live in the basin

by Madeline Heim / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel October 23, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

The Mississippi River’s floodplain forests are dying. The race is on to bring them back.

by Madeline Heim / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel August 10, 2023August 18, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Midwest states, often billed as climate havens, suffer summer of smoke, drought, heat

by Madeline Heim / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Chloe Johnson / Minneapolis Star Tribune June 30, 2023August 1, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Wildfire smoke is new hazard in upper Midwest

by Madeline Heim / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Chloe Johnson / Minneapolis Star Tribune June 10, 2023July 31, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch