A similar railroad at Brandon Road or some other pinch-point in the canals that connect the Mississippi and the Great Lakes could be built.

Conservationists and wildlife officials have been policing the porous border between the Mississippi watershed and the Great Lakes for years. Their main concern: preventing Asian carp, an invasive ...

Quick Take Asian carp outcompete native species, comprising as much as 80 percent of the biomass in some waterways. The Mississippi River basin and other waterways that connect to the Great Lakes are ...