Missouri River News - April 25, 2005
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“Montana to receive Lewis and Clark grants.” Billings Gazette, 20 April 2005.
Montana will receive $1.5 million of the $4.4 million in 2005 grants from the National Park Service for Lewis and Clark bicentennial events, officials announced.
*also appeared in the Great Falls Tribune, 19 April 2005.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/04/20/news/local/nws07.txt
Richard Hinton. “5,000 young pallids to be tagged, released.” Bismark Tribune, 20 April 2005.
The 2004 year class of hatchery-raised pallid sturgeon is about to go through its graduation ritual of being tagged before being released into the Missouri River, the traditional home of the endangered species.
*also appeared in the Omaha World Herald, 21 April 2005.
*also appeared in the Yankton Press & Dakotan, 21 April 2005.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/04/20/sports/outdoors/out01.txt
Richard Hinton. “Ramping up.” Bismark Tribune, 20 April 2005.
If you want to launch your boat on Lake Sakakawea right now, you have two options: Lake Sakakawea State Park or Four Bears.
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/local/11450322.htm
“Temporary fix for tribe's water intake.” Aberdeen American News, 21 April 2005.
Tribal officials have said that involves moving the intake 12 miles to the Missouri River's main channel. That project could cost $70 million or more and take at least several years, but planning should start now, they have said.
*also appeared in the Billings Gazette, 21 April 2005.
*also appeared in the Yankton Press & Dakotan, 21 April 2005.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/04/21/news/local/nws01.txt
Lauren Donovan. “Falling lake creating a pipeline hazard.” Bismark Tribune, 21 April 2005.
If a boat prop meets a solid half-inch of steel, it's pretty much end of story for the boat prop. For that reason, boaters up on the far reach of Lake Sakakawea should expect to encounter some new navigation buoys this summer.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=1638&u_sid=1391838
David Hendee. “Voyage is accurate down to prairie dog.” Omaha World Herald, 21 April 2005.
Just as one did 200 years ago, a black-tailed prairie dog is heading down the Missouri River in a keelboat.
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050422/NEWS/504220301/1001/ARCHIVE
Wayne Ortman. “Walleye egg harvest off to early start.” Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 22 April 2005.
Loss of eggs likely can be offset by egg collection on the Missouri River, where crews are working in the Grand River and Moreau River portions of Oahe.
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096410799
David Melmer. “Water supply critical for Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.” Indian Country Today. 22 April 2005.
The reservation and some surrounding communities get their drinking water from the Missouri River. For the past seven years, severe drought conditions has resulted in very low water levels on the Missouri River lakes - so low, in fact, that water has become more valuable than gold or oil.
James Lee Witt. “Flood Management: Have we learned nothing?” St. Louis Post Dispatch, 22 April 2005.
Just over a decade ago, the Midwest experienced the costliest flood in the nation's history: the Great Midwest Flood of 1993.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/04/23/news/local/nws04.txt
Gordon Weixel. “Water board still not complete.” Bismark Tribune, 23 April 2005.
Representatives of counties bordering the Missouri River met in Garrison on Thursday with the intent of forming a Missouri River Water Resource Joint Board, but some concerns still remain, and formation of the new board may be a couple of months in the offing.
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/sports/outdoors/11474723.htm
Agencies work to develop boating access. Grand forks Herald, 24 April 2005.
State and federal agencies and local communities in North Dakota are working to have 31 boat ramps operable on the Missouri River system, including 20 on Lake Sakakawea, by Memorial Day.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=1638&u_sid=1394296&u_rnd=1900701
Marion Rhoades. “Corps ending Nebraska leg of trip home.” Omaha World Herald, 24 April 2005.
After Mike Bowman found out that one of his ancestors took part in the Lewis and Clark expedition 200 years ago, he knew his place was on the keelboat currently traveling down the Missouri River.
“Flood Plains: Pushing it.” St. Louis Post Dispatch, 24 April 2005.
Given the stakes - billions in investment, thousands of jobs, perhaps even lives - the federal government ought to be very conservative in estimating future flood levels for the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. It should err on the side of safety.
“Editorial: Re-enactor need not have departed.” St. Louis Post Dispatch, 24 April 2005.
Historians likely would have cast the Lewis and Clark Expedition in a less favorable light if Capt. Meriwether Lewis and the Corps of Discovery had parted ways in a spat over the trip's itinerary. Thomas Jefferson, the president who picked Lewis to lead the expedition, surely would have been disappointed.
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050425/NEWS02/504250310/1001
Peter Harriman. “Rain delights parched West River.” Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 25 April 2005.
While the amount of rain and snow that had fallen across the river's drainage from its headwaters in Montana through North and South Dakota last week will help farmers and ranchers, it would have a negligible effect on reversing the record low water levels in the Missouri.