Missouri River News - September 12, 2005
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/12584080.htm
Closed ports backing up shipments of food, other products.” Grand Forks Herald, 7 September 2005.
Farmers in the Midwest depend on it to ship their wheat,
corn, soybeans and other grains. The Mississippi River links to the Ohio, the
Illinois and the Missouri rivers, and manufacturers from across the Midwest
depend on vast fleets of inland river barges to carry chemicals, steel, rubber
and other cargoes to world export through New Orleans.
Brent French. “Linking history to wilderness.” Billings Gazette, 8 September 2005.
The high visibility of the Lewis and Clark expedition's bicentennial celebration has provided the perfect stage for a national environmental group to propose greater protection for 25 ecosystems in eight states along the historic route, including the Pryor Mountains south of Billings and Wyoming's Beartooth Plateau.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/berlau200509080824.asp
John Berlau. “Greens vs. Levees.” National Review Online, 8 September 2005.
The Army Corps of Engineers under Clinton began implementing a planned “spring rise” of the Missouri River that would raise water levels on the Missouri River during part of the year. This was supported by eco-groups, who argued that this restored the river’s natural flows and protected a bird called the piping plover.
Tom Uhlenbrock. “The country side of fall.” St. Louis post Dispatch, 11 September 2005.
Founded in 1836, New Haven originally was called Miller's Landing as a steamboat stop. Lewis and Clark camped nearby in 1804, and the town has a memorial to John Colter, a member of the expedition who liked what he saw and returned to farm and trap along Boeuf Creek.
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2005/09/11/news/local/fa4c7c5fee5c8e4a862570790007a0fa.txt
Sioux Cityans like their birds, mostly.” Sioux City Journal, 11 September 2005.
The bald eagle, recently removed from the endangered species list, is nesting in the area, something it wasn't doing just 10 years ago, Huser said. Some are nesting south of Sioux City, down by Snyder's Bend, while others are finding homes along smaller rivers like the Maple and Little Sioux, branching out from the Missouri River, he noted.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/mehan200509120811.asp
Dam It.” National Review Online, 12 September 2005.
Berlau's arguments regarding the Missouri River and the big dams in the northwest are generally correct — but those places really involve issues very different from those on the Mississippi. In the Missouri and northwest cases, the dams have been in place for decades and entire economies have become dependent upon them.
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforksherald/12621740.htm
“Briefly ...” Grand Forks Herald, 12 September 2005.
Missouri River water: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rejected a request by Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt's office to release water from reservoirs on the Missouri River to help shippers navigating the drought-plagued Mississippi River. In a letter dated Aug. 23, John Paul Woodley, the assistant Army secretary who oversees the Corps, says conditions do not warrant a special release of water to keep barges moving.