Missouri River News - December 5, 2005
http://yankton.net/stories/112105/news_20051121008.shtml
“No Sparks At Meeting On Missouri River Plan.” Yankton Press & Dakotan, November 21, 2005.
The last of eight public meetings on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' 2006 draft operating plan for the Missouri River reservoir system drew no raised voices, no displays of temper.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/11/22/news/local/105914.txt
Gordon Weixel. “Burnt Creek ramp work under way.” Bismark Tribune, November 22, 2005.
The Burnt Creek boat ramp facility is undergoing a reconstruction and beginning to take shape. Plans are to re-open the Missouri River access site sometime next spring.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/13238128.htm
Bill Graham. “Skelton opposes releases.” Kansas City Star, November 23, 2005.
Rep. Ike Skelton has asked the Corps of Engineers to drop plans for extra Missouri River water flows next spring that are designed to help an endangered fish.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/11/23/news/editorials/105952.txt
“New bridge needs a rethought.” Bismark Tribune, November 23, 2005.
No company, so far, wants the job of building a new bridge over the Missouri River between Bismarck and Mandan. The bid deadline was Friday, but not one was received.
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051124/LIFESTYLE05/511240325/1055
Eric Newhouse. “Biologist's report: whirling disease in the Missouri 'as bad as it gets'.” Great Falls Tribune, November 24, 2005.
This year's trout count on the Missouri River is a mixed bag, showing a lot of whirling disease — but not a lot of mortality.
http://www.yankton.net/stories/112505/community_20051125025.shtml
Randy Dockendorf. “Tourism Summit May Draw Govs.” Yankton Press & Dakotan, November 25, 2005.
“The governors and public broadcasting show what a big deal this is," Jacquie Fuks said. "This (river) is our Mount Rushmore. The Missouri River has been here forever, and we have taken it for granted for a long time. But 1.1 million people spent a night at the Lewis and Clark Rec Area (in 2005), to camp along both sides of the river."
http://sullivannews.com/articles/publish/article_2753.shtml
“Farmers Proclaim "My Farm Is Not A Lab" Sulllivan News, November 25, 2005.
Floodplain farmers at risk of adverse flood and inland drainage impacts from two Missouri River manmade “spring rises” proclaimed that “My farm is not your laboratory” at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Missouri River Draft Annual Operating Plan public meetings in Kansas City, Jefferson City and St. Louis on Nov. 15 and 16.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/13257608.htm
Project captures stories of those along the Missouri River.” Kansas City Star, November 25, 2005.
Doris Brizendine has seen the river giveth - abundant crops on fertile farmland in its moist, rich bottom _and, during the Great Flood of 1993 and other, less catastrophic surges of water, taketh away.
*appears in the Hannibal Courier Post, November 25, 2005.
*appears in the SE Missourian, November 27, 2005.
*appears in the Columbia Daily Tribune, November 26, 2005.
*appears in the Jefferson City News Tribune, November 26, 2005.
Ken Leiser. “Jefferson City levee is put on hold.” St. Louis Post Dispatch, November 25, 2005.
Building a highly protective levee along the Missouri River in Jefferson City will have to wait, according to city and federal officials who say scarce federal dollars are being diverted to fund the ongoing war in Iraq.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/11/30/build/state/55-snowpack.inc
Lorna Thackeray. “Snowpack 'encouraging' so far.” Billings Gazette, November 30, 2005.
The Missouri River Basin is having a great year. Its headwaters - the Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin - have 110 percent of average snowpack. The Missouri mainstem is 117 percent of normal. Last year at this time, snowpack on the mainstem was at 70 percent.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1971&dept_id=214822&newsid=15664152&PAG=461&rfi=9
“GFP Biologists Monitor River.” Marshall County Journal, November 30, 2005.
Sam Stukel, the crew leader from Gregory, Steve LaBay from Willow Lake, and Jason Kral from Princeton, MN comprise the SD Pallid Sturgeon Population Assessment Program team located in Yankton. All three are new fisheries biologists with the state Department of Game, Fish and Parks. Funding for the team is being provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
*appears in the Aberdeen American News, December 3, 2005.
*appears in the Bismark Tribune, December 5, 2005.
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/13297966.htm
Grand Forks : Drought costs worry leaders.” Grand Forks Herald, December 1, 2005.
Lake Agassiz Water Authority, which represents 13 North Dakota counties along the river, is asking Grand Forks to decide to participate in a multi-million dollar project - an estimated $430 million at minimum - to pipe water from the Missouri River to the valley. That's the "drought insurance" that has city leaders worried.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Dec/20051203News005.asp
Annie Nelson. “Species’ revival ‘phenomenal’ despite hazards, eagles on comeback. Columbia Daily Tribune, December 3, 2005.
Two immature bald eagles wounded by gunfire in June returned to the wild yesterday after they were released from a bluff overlooking the Missouri River on the north side of the Capitol.
http://www.minotdailynews.com/news/story/123202005_new3news1.asp
Eloise Ogden. “Missouri River included in alternatives for project.” Minot Daily News, 3 December 2005.
Delivering Missouri River water to the Red River Valley is among the potential alternatives being considered in a draft Environ-mental Impact Statement of the Red River Valley Water Supply Project.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/12/04/news/local/106498.txt
“Tribal chairman says water plan overlooks western N.D.” Bismark Tribune, December 4, 2005.
Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman Tex Hall says the tribes and western North Dakota generally are being overlooked in plans to pipe Missouri River water to the Red River Valley in times of drought.
*Appears in the Grand Forks Herald, November 4, 2005.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/12/05/news/letters/106460.txt
Rynee Kellar. “Letter to the editor.” Bismark Tribune, 5 December 2005.
I attended the Nov. 17 meeting in Bismarck with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A lot of good testimony was given at the meeting.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/12/04/local/doc43938e9d0d7f7936433023.txt
Algis J. Laukaitis. “Snow geese migration in full swing after late start.” Lincoln Star Journal, December 5, 2005.