Like many river islands, Reed Island is constantly shaped ... Find a copy at one of the locations noted on this map before they all get picked up! Read more from Oregon Summer magazine online ...

The islands are in the Mississippi River just north of Lock and Dam 4 ... Hunters were the first to realize the islands had been “lost.” Maps from when the refuge was created in 1924 show ...

(Mike Danahey/The Courier-News) Thanks to unseasonably low water levels, islands of silt, rock and sand — and even an abandoned car — have emerged in the Fox River near East and West Dundee ...