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Missouri River News - January 24, 2005
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/10626325.htm
Cain Burdeau. “Endangered dinosaur fish restocked in the South.” Kansas City Star, 12 January 2005.
Dams have segmented sturgeon populations in the northern reaches of the Missouri River and biologists blame the dams on driving the species to the brink of extinction in those areas.
http://yankton.net/stories/121704/community_20041217021.shtml
“Storage and Power Output Low In River Basin.” Yankton Press & Dakotan, 17 December 2005.
Releases from Gavins Point Dam averaged on 9,400 cubic feet per second (cfs) in November, less than a third of normal, a result of the 47-day shortened Missouri River navigation season.
http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=82AF95E8-DF93-6744-164D15B8AE1E1F31
Josh St. Peters. “Drought predicted to remain in 2005.” Brownfield Agriculture Today, 17 January 2005.
The forecast data that Hayes has reviewed predicts significant problems for agriculturalists depending on the Missouri River. He says this river system is worse off in 2005 than it was in the late 1980s and early 1990s when drought left many areas in with a daunting thirst for precipitation. Hayes says the area’s water supply and navigability of the rivers could be in trouble later in the year.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2005-01-17-snowpack_x.htm?csp=34
“Mountain snow less than normal, has less moisture.” USA Today, 17 January 2005.
The snow that has fallen so far doesn't have much moisture, so a heavy, wet snowpack that could help replenish the Missouri River hasn't come to pass just yet, said Roy Kaiser with the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Bozeman, Montana.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=1638&u_sid=1311413
“Lewis and Clark events in 12 towns.” Omaha World Herald, 17 January 2005.
Twelve more Nebraska communities will host Lewis and Clark bicentennial programs this spring in the final year of a Nebraska Humanities Council project.
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/opinion/10670577.htm
“River conference could be good step.” Aberdeen American News, 18 January 2005.
In the absence of a reliable partner in the form of the Army Corps of Engineers, perhaps Gov. Mike Rounds is right to propose a summit of the governors of Missouri River states.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/01/19/news/local/nws04.txt
Richard Hinton. “Corps seeks input on sandbars.” Bismark Tribune, 19 Janaury 2005.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials expect a good-sized turnout here Thursday for a meeting about creating Missouri River sandbar habitat to help the recovery of two species of birds.
http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2005/jan/20050120news001.asp
John Sullivan. “Delays plague DNR in rule-making effort.” Columbia Daily Tribune, 20 January 2005.
Five of the 36 sites discharge into streams or stream portions slated to be analyzed by DNR to see whether they’re suitable for swimming. The five facilities discharge into Rocky Fork Creek north of Columbia; Little Cedar Creek east of Columbia; a tributary of Hinkson Creek in northeast Columbia; and the Missouri River near Hartsburg.
http://www.thepublicopinion.com/articles/2005/01/20/local_news/local01.txt
Terry O’Keefe. “Tourism spending hits record low.” Watertown Public Opinion, 20 January 2005.
Low water on the Missouri River is being blamed for a smaller increase in visitor spending in that region, but the Black Hills saw growth of 8.9 percent and the Southeast Region increased by 4.9 percent.
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/10698837.htm
“Missouri runoff 66 percent of normal last year.” Aberdeen American News, 21 January 2005.
The Army Corps of Engineers said it expects runoff into the Missouri River system this year to be below normal for a sixth straight year.
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050121/NEWS02/501210313/1001/ARCHIVE
“Corps: Low runoff into river expected.” Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 21 January 2005.
The Army Corps of Engineers said it expects runoff into the Missouri River system this year to be below normal for a sixth straight year.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/01/21/news/local/nws01.txt
Richard Hinton. “Audience seeks answers at public corps meeting.” Bismark Tribune, 21 January 2005.
Citizens concerned about their Missouri River recreation came, heard, asked questions and listened Thursday night as a delegation from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sketched tentative plans for creating sandbar habitat for two species of protected birds.
Phillip O’Connor. “Drama along the rivers.” St. Louis Post Dispatch, 22 January 2005.
As the Missouri, Illinois, Kaskaskia, Meramec and upper Mississippi rivers steadily rose, corps officials in St. Louis began to use dams and reservoirs in a juggling act of holds and releases.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/arts/design/23kino.html?oref=login
Carol Kino. “If Lewis and Clark Could See It Now.” New York Times, 23 January 2005.
After two years of bicentennial commemorations of Lewis and Clark's fabled transcontinental journey, and more to come, perhaps you're thinking, enough already. But that could change with a viewing of "Lewis & Clark Revisited: A Trail in Modern Day," a documentary project by the Berkeley, Calif., photographer Greg MacGregor on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096410234
David Melmer. “Missouri River looms as major problem.” Indian Country Today, 24 January 2005.
Drought conditions in the Northern Plains and some Rocky Mountain regions pose serious problems for recreation and navigation from the upper to the lower Missouri River Basin.
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096410228
David Melmer. “Treaty council challenges feds.” Indian Country Today, 24 January 2005.
The watersheds that feed the river come through Indian country, the reservations and the traditional treaty lands. Recent negotiations by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to manage the river's flow with hydropower dams that harness the Missouri have come under criticism. Some of it from lower states that use the river for navigation. But, the tribes with the treaties have the rights to the water and are demanding more say in how the river is managed. Cultural and sacred sites are at stake as well.
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096410228
David Melmer. “Treaties need to be honored.” Indian Country Today, 24 January 2005.
Treaty council members still fight to remind people that the boundaries of the 1868 treaty were taken away by executive order and by acts of Congress through allotments and land grabs. In 1874 gold was discovered in the Black Hills and that led to wholesale violations of the 1868 treaty, which named all land east of the Missouri River to the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming as Teton or Lakota lands.
http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/story/194192
Scott Rothschild. “Kaw plan dredges up old rivalry.” Lawrence Journal, 24 January 2005.
The study will also look at streambed degradation of the Missouri River, of which the Kaw is a tributary, and whether that affects the reach of the Kaw in the Kansas City area.
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