NEWS - October 20, 2003
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Thiessen, Mark. “Where’s Shannon?” Helena Independent Record, 12 October 2003.
Find the man who got lost while on Lewis & Clark expedition out West.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/30dayarchives/10-14-2003/sta01.html
“Corps says September runoff into Missouri River was meager.” Bismark Tribune, 14 October 2003.
September runoff into the Missouri River and its tributaries upstream from Sioux City, Iowa, was the fourth lowest in 106 years since records have been kept, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says.
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/news/stories/20031014/localnews/448918.html
Winslow, Larry. “Lewis & Clark: L&C shook up history.” Great Falls Tribune, 14 October 2003.
A fourth-generation Montanan from Choteau is playing a
major role in helping Louisville, Ky., and Clarksville, Ind., commemorate the
Lewis and Clark Expedition beginning today.
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/7007744.htm
“Pawlenty program protects waters.” Grand Forks Herald, 14 October 2003.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty was standing in some fields Monday near Barnesville, Minn., to announce a new package of public money to pay farmers to set aside privately owned crop acres to protect rivers, stop erosion and flooding and restore wetlands and other wildlife habitat.
http://www.argusleader.com/news/Wednesdayarticle4.shtml
Shouse, Ben. “With no new data, river meeting stalls.” Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 15 October 2003.
Missouri River basin states met Tuesday in Omaha for a polite but largely unproductive meeting on river management, participants said.
http://www.willistonherald.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2003/October/17-1300-news1.txt
Gurfinkel, Kathryn. “Lake continues to drop with little precipitation.” Williston Herald, 17 October 2003.
Lakes all across the Missouri River system are reaching record low levels with no sign of more water in sight.
http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2003/oct/20031018comm005.asp
“Open Column: Midkiff’s river rhetoric has unsound foundation.” Columbia Daily Tribune, 18 October 2003.
In Ken Midkiff’s Oct. 10 article "Big Muddy barge risk is a falsehood," his rhetoric is without foundation. Because litigation went to and fro for several weeks in ’03 ending in a 22-day summer Missouri River navigation curtailment, carriers were unable to offer contracts for fall delivery with any degree of confidence they could fulfill contract obligations.
http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2003/oct/20031018comm006.asp
“Open Column: Midkiff misses true opponent on rivers.” Columbia Daily Tribune, 18 October 2003.
As a riverside Boone County resident, recreational boater and former riverboat pilot, I recognize that many of Midkiff’s statements are verifiable facts.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=675&u_sid=892352
Frazier, Joseph. “Historian Seeks Lewis & Clark Information.” Omaha World Herald, 20 October 2003.
It's 1803, and President Jefferson wants you to lead a trip thousands of miles west, to the Pacific.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=1636&u_sid=892193
Nygren, Judith. “Tribute paid to Curtis at site's naming.” Omaha World Herald, 20 October 2003.
Carl T. Curtis, who died in 2000 at the age of 94, sponsored a resolution that ultimately led to the creation of the Pick-Sloan Plan, the blueprint for flood control in the Missouri Basin.