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Posted by Jo, on April 26th, 2013
By Jo Schaper
The office of U.S. Representative Sam Graves (R. Dist. 6 – KC MO) announced recently the introduction of H.R. 1460, a measure which would remove fish and wildlife and their habitat as one of the eight factors the Army Corps of Engineers must take under consideration in their management of the Missouri River. [...]
Posted by Jo, on November 14th, 2012
The Army Corps of Engineers will reduce outflow from an upper Missouri River reservoir despite concerns that it will impact shipping on the Mississippi River, the Corps said Tuesday.
The flow from the Gavins Point Dam in South Dakota will decrease from 17,000 to 12,000 on November 23.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and [...]
Posted by Jo, on November 7th, 2012
By Jo Schaper
It was cold on the banks of the Missouri River last Saturday night. In the tiny town of New Haven, the historic downtown along the railroad tracks was clogged with pop-up canopies, many still serving festival food like kettle corn, brats, and hot cocoa as the sun set.
It was the town’s fifth [...]
Posted by Jo, on June 26th, 2012
By Jo Schaper
Missouri Parks Association is asking for citizen support for the Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to restore fish and wildlife habitat in the Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge adjacent to Arrow Rock State Historic Site.
The deadline for comments is this Saturday June 30.
After the flood of 1993, the U.S. Fish and [...]
Posted by Jo, on March 16th, 2012
By Jo Schaper
Tomorrow morning, when Michael Clark of Big Muddy Adventures, John Ruskey of Quapaw Canoe Company, David Hanson, adventure journalist, and Mark Peoples, a 1Mississippi River Guide intern, put their paddles into the Bourbeuse River at the Union, Missouri boat ramp, after having begun in Washington, MO, and [...]
Posted by Jo, on January 31st, 2012
Part of Jo’s husband’s job means he travels all over the state. He’s rarely without a camera, (and just figured out how to use the camera on his cell phone for when that happens.)
A couple weeks ago life took him to Big Lake State Park. If you usually stay on the eastern or southern [...]
Posted by Jo, on July 31st, 2011
A few months ago, Jo attempted to give a play by play of the swollen Mississippi and southeast Missouri rivers as our region suffered. The geographic location has shifted northwestward, but the suffering is the same. Mercifully, the Missouri below Kansas City has been spared what the Nebraska-Iowa-Kansas Tri-State region is enduring. These photos and [...]
Posted by Jo, on August 26th, 2010
This is a followup to the report on the Missouri River 340, an annual human-powered paddlesport event which goes from Kaw Point in Kansas City the width of Missouri to the finish line in St. Charles. More background about the race can be found in yesterday’s post.
The team Easy Living, with paddlers West Hansen, of [...]
Posted by Emery, on August 16th, 2010
On Saturday, September 11, Missouri River Relief will be hosting a river clean-up on the Missouri River in St. Charles. The clean-up runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m, rain or shine. Clean-up headquarters will be the Bishop’s Landing Boat Ramp next to the Lewis and Clark Boat House on the St. Charles Riverfront. Over [...]
Posted by Emery, on July 23rd, 2010
The fifth annual Missouri River 340 paddler race, billed as the “world’s longest non-stop river race”, has been postponed to August 24 – 27, 2010, because of high water and dangerous currents along many reaches of the race course.
The race was originally scheduled to start at Kaw Point Park in Kansas City, Kan., on July [...]
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