NEWS - November 3, 2003
Underwood, Katherine. “Lewis and Clark event planning begins early.” Columbia Missourian, 28 October 2003.
Their journey up the Missouri River on a 55-foot keelboat is the symbol of the great American odyssey. Next year, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s 1804 expedition of the American West returns to Missouri, where it began 200 years earlier.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/30dayarchives/10-29-2003/nws05.html
Brokaw, Chet. “Corps outlines 2004 Missouri River operating plan.” Bismark Tribune, 29 October 2003.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should manage the Missouri River next year to give more support to sport fisheries in upstream reservoirs, officials from North Dakota and South Dakota said Tuesday night.
*also appeared in the Columbia Daily Tribune, 29 October 2003.
*also appeared in the Jefferson City News Tribune, 29 October 2003.
*also appeared in the Omaha World Herald, 29 October 2003.
*also appeared in the Yankton Press & Dakotan, 29 October 2003.
http://www.argusleader.com/editorial/Thursdayfeature.shtml
“Editorial: River plan promising.” Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 30 October 2003.
We're still waiting for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers master manual to be completed, but a draft copy of the corps' 2004 operating plan for the Missouri River proposes at least one positive change.
http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2003/oct/20031031news002.asp
Flory, Josh. “Critics attack plan for river management.” Columbia Daily Tribune, 31 October 2003.
Earlier this month, the corps released its plan for managing the Missouri River in 2004. The plan drew immediate criticism from environmental groups, which declared it "dead on arrival" because it does not include a spring rise or low summer flows and warned that a "legal quagmire" will continue.
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/7162308.htm
Botzek, Gary. “Viewpoint: Pawlenty initiative gaining ground.” Grand Forks Herald, 2 November 2003.
The $226 million Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP), if approved by the federal government and funded by the state, will retire and restore 100,000 acres of marginal agricultural land in three targeted watersheds in Minnesota.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/7160322.htm?ERIGHTS=-4705155856202251510kansascity
Montgomery, Rick. “River rat re-creates expedition's watercraft.” Kansas City Star, 02 November 2003.
Butch Bouvier builds boats. A self-described river rat, he makes his life and living plying the waters of the Missouri River and listening to what the river says about science and history.