NEWS - August 23, 2004

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/9425134.htm 

“Security to be added to four Missouri River dams.” Kansas City Star, 17 August 2004. New security systems will be installed at four of six Missouri River dams at a cost of $4.3 million. 

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/30dayarchives/8-18-2004/nws03.html 

Spilde, Tony. “First time in 200 years that a keelboat's been in the Missouri.” Bismark Tribune,18 August 2004. Mr. Keelboat grabbed the rigging and stepped down. With his arm, he made a sweeping motion toward the Missouri. "This," he claimed, "will be the first time in 200 years -- the first time since Lewis and Clark -- that a keelboat will be in these waters."

*also appeared in the Grand Forks Herald, 19 August 2004.
*also appeared in the Helena Independent Record, 19 August 2004.
*also appeared in the Jamestown Sun, 19 August 2004. 

http://www.helenair.com/articles/2004/08/19/outdoors/c02081904_02.txt 

Mendyke, Thomas. “Nighthawks haunt Missouri River.” Helena Independent Record, 18 August 2004.If you've been down to the Missouri River in the evening during the past couple of weeks you probably had a slender raptor swooping around your head as it plucked one caddis after another out of the night air. That bird was probably the common nighthawk. 

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/30dayarchives/8-21-2004/nws10.html 

Wetzel, Dale.  “N.D. bucks Missouri request.” Bismark Tribune, 21 August 2004.North Dakota officials are opposing a request for a month's extension of the shipping season on the lower Missouri River, saying it would drain more water from Lake Sakakawea, which is already near record lows.

*also appeared in the Grand Forks Herald, 21 August 2004.
*also appeared in the Jamestown Sun, 21 August 2004. 

http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2004/aug/20040821news004.asp 

Flory, Josh. “Corps project creates shallows: Agencies aid species along Missouri River.” Columbia Daily Tribune, 21 August 2004. For years, the Big Muddy has been at the center of legal and political struggles over management of its water levels, and those battles are ongoing. 

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/sports/outdoors/9464214.htm 

Dokken, Brad. “Surviving on Lake Sakakawea.” Grand Forks Herald, 22 August 2004. On a reservoir where water levels are at all-time lows - the result of several dry years and a Missouri River management scheme that's wrapped up in politics, to the benefit of barge-traffic interests in downstream states - the Torgersons' story represents, perhaps, the worst-case scenario. 

http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2004/aug/20040823news012.asp 

“Northwest Missouri lake almost dried up.” Columbia Daily Tribune, 23 August 2004. Some hope the dry Missouri River oxbow bed will again be filled with water, but others are skeptical.

*also appeared in the Kansas City Star, 23 Ausgust 2004.