Government Land Office (GLO) survey records were used to reconstruct the presettlement floodplain landscape at the confluence of the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. Presettlement prairie and forest land covers were determined by digitizing GLO plat maps using a computerized geographic information sy...
This area has been facing recurring threats from coastal hazards, including large-scale, rapid-moving disasters such as hurricanes and storm surges and slow-moving disturbances such as land subsidence and sea level rise. These hazardous events have negatively impacted the communities in various degrees...