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Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources staff winter sampling water quality on the Upper Mississippi River: Full resolution
Photo by Jeff Houser, USGS, UMESC, 2005
Usage: This image is public domain/of free use. Please refer to the USGS Copyright section for more details.
