Missouri River News - August 15, 2005
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/08/10/news/state/100396.txt
“River advisory group forming.” Bismarck Tribune, 10 August 2005.
Missouri River regulators hope a new advisory group to be set up by early next year will make the public more involved with environmental decisions facing the river.
*appears in the Columbia Daily Tribune, 10 August 2005.
*appears in the Helena Independent Record, 10 August 2005.
*appears in the Jefferson City News Tribune, 10 August 2005.
http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=15382
Leslie Parker. “Weather forces early end to navigation on river.” Columbia Missourian, 11 August 2005.
The effects of this summer’s drought on inland shipping will be felt into late fall with the closing of the Missouri River to navigation 48 days early.
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/12353743.htm
“Board discusses water options.” Grand Forks Herald, 11 August 2005.
The Lake Agassiz Water Authority's preferred option is a pipeline that would divert water from the Missouri River to Lake Ashtabula on the Sheyenne River.
http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=15393
Kit Doyle. “Sturgeon in troubled waters.” Columbia Missourian, 12 August 2005.
Last year, Wyatt Doyle caught five wild pallid sturgeon in the Missouri River.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/12369912.htm
Jim Salter. “Long-lost steamboat emerges in receding river.” Kansas City Star, 12 August 2005.
It emerges like a giant skeleton near the banks of the receding Missouri River, a relic from an era that helped shape Missouri's history in the state's infancy.
*appears in the Columbia Daily Tribune, 13 August 2005.
*appears in the Jefferson City News Tribune, 13 August 2005.
*appears in the New York Times, 16 August 2005.
*appears in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, 14 August 2005.
*appears in the USA Today, 16 August 2005.
*appears in the Washington Post, 16 August 2005.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12371246.htm
Sam Hananel. “Blunt wants more water from Missouri River released to help with drought.” Biloxi Sun Tribune, 12 August 2005.
Gov. Matt Blunt wants the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to release water from reservoirs on the Missouri River to make sure shipping is not interrupted along the drought-ravaged Mississippi River.
*appears in the Kansas City Infozine, 14 August 2005.
*appears in the Aberdeen American News, 14 August 2005.
*appears in the SE Missourian, 13 August 2005.
*appears in the Columbia Daily Tribune, 13 August 2005.
*appears in the Lincoln Star Journal, 13 August 2005.
*appears in the Yankton Press & Dakotan, 13 August 2005.
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050815/NEWS01/508150303/1002
Paula Wilmot. “City tackles water rights questions.” Great Falls Tribune, 15 August 2005.
Just because the Missouri River runs through Great Falls, it doesn't mean the city has unlimited rights to the water.
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/12397026.htm
Kevin O’Hanlon. “Conservation groups lose appeal of Missouri River ruling.” Belleville News Democrat, 16 August 2005.
Environmental groups lost their appeal Tuesday of a ruling allowing the Missouri River to be controlled without changes they say will save endangered fish and birds.
*appears in the Billings Gazette, 16 August 2005.
*appears in the Bismark Tribune, 16 August 2005.
*appears in the Columbia Daily Tribune, 16 August 2005.
*appears in the Grand Forks Herald, 16 August 2005.
*appears in the Kansas City Star, 16 August 2005.
*appears in the Omaha World Herald, 16 August 2005.
*appears in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, 16 August 2005.
*appears in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 16 August 2005.
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/12397160.htm
Dale Wetzel. “Appeals court upholds dismissal of ND river management lawsuit.” Belleville News Democrat, 16 August 2005.
North Dakota may not use federal water pollution laws to challenge the Army Corps of Engineers' management of the Missouri River, a federal appeals court has ruled.