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April 7, 2011, Ice break up in the Des Lacs River near Foxholm, ND.

April 7, 2011, ice break up in the Des Lacs River near Foxholm, ND.

North Dakota Discovery Farms Underwood waterway site 3 at Underwood, ND.

Flood of April 25, 2011, at USGS streamflow-gaging station 07048600, White River near Fayetteville, Arkansas. Photograph by K.M. Hubbs, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center.

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Flood of April 25, 2011, at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamflow-gaging station 07048490, Town Branch tributary at Highway 16 at Fayetteville, Arkansas. Photograph by D.M. Wagner, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center.

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Ice breaking up on the Red Lake River, Fisher, Minnesota, April 1, 2011.

Ice breaking up on the Red River of the North at Grand Forks, North Dakota, East Grand Forks, Minnestoa.

The radar gage at James River above Arrowwood Lake near Kensal, North Dakota was knocked over by ice.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service employee holds a pallid sturgeon caught on a trotline at Lock and Dam 1 on the Osage River.  The concrete pillars and walls in the background of the photo are what remains of the Lock and Dam 1 structure.   

Researchers with the Alaska Fish and Game travel along Alexander Creek in the Susitna Basin of south-central Alaska. The team is on their way to a back country base-camp for a study examining the preferred diet of invasive northern pike (Esox lucius).

Dust carried by the wind has far-reaching effects, including the loss of nutrients and water-holding capacity from landscapes, and the speeding up of the melting of snow, which affects the timing and magnitude of runoff into streams and rivers.

Dust carried by the wind has far-reaching effects, including the loss of nutrients and water-holding capacity from landscapes, and the speeding up of the melting of snow, which affects the timing and magnitude of runoff into streams and rivers.

Fractures along Superstition Hills Fault formed in response to the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake. Black arrows mark matches across en echelon fractures. Centimeter rule for scale.

Aerial view of backwater habitat for invasive northern pike (Esox lucius) off of Alexander Creek in the Susitna Basin of south-central Alaska.

Looking upstream on the Red River of the North at Grand Forks, North Dakota, East Grand Forks, Minnestoa.

Ice in Beaver Creek near Montpelier, North Dakota.

Dust carried by the wind has far-reaching effects, including the loss of nutrients and water-holding capacity from landscapes, and the speeding up of the melting of snow, which affects the timing and magnitude of runoff into streams and rivers.

Water starting to flow through the ice on Baldhill Creek, near Dazey, North Dakota, April 1, 2011

Looking downstream on the Red River of the North at Grand Forks, North Dakota, East Grand Forks, Minnestoa.

Dust carried by the wind has far-reaching effects, including the loss of nutrients and water-holding capacity from landscapes, and the speeding up of the melting of snow, which affects the timing and magnitude of runoff into streams and rivers.

An Alaska Fish and Game technician poses with an invasive northern pike (Esox lucius) taken from Alexander Creek in the Susitna Basin of south-central Alaska.