August 5, 2022

This Week's Highlights: Forced sale of park reversed by Missouri appeals court, Missouri River barge services poised for investment, cool Missouri River spots, a new Missouri River Center and kids on the river, record rain in St. Louis, a rare crayfish find, troubled trout waters, Atlantic sturgeon decline, Missouri River resiliency and thoughts to divert the Mississippi, paddlers retracing Lewis and Clark, lessons from creek restoration, and why not to eat fish from the Big River

MISSOURI
Forced Park Sale Reversed by Court
Forced sale of state parkland on Eleven Point River reversed by Missouri appeals court
St. Louis Post Dispatch

Missouri River Barge Services Poised for Investment
'Underutilized' Missouri River barge services poised for federal investment
Columbia Missourian

Missouri River Cool Towns and Scenic Spots
The Missouri River has so many cool towns and scenic spots to explore. Here's our guide
KCUR

Missouri River Center
Creating a Missouri River Center for Conservation Innovation 
The Nature Conservancy

Kids on the River
Kids go birding, hiking and fishing along the Missouri River
Columbia Missourian

Big Lessons from Creek Restoration
The Big Lessons of Little Creek Conservation
The Nature Conservancy

Mark Twain Forest offers Outstanding Recreation
Driftwood Outdoors: Missouri’s Mark Twain National Forest offers outstanding recreational opportunity
Columbia Tribune

Don’t Eat Fish from Big River
Health officials remind people not to eat fish from Big River
Leader Publications

Record Rain in St Louis
Record rain in St. Louis is what climate change looks like
Yale Climate Connections

NATIONAL
Rare Crayfish Found in Cave
Rare Crustacean, Thought To Be Extinct, Found in a 2500-Foot-Long Cave
SciTechDaily

Diverting the Mississippi?
Diverting the Mississippi? Western drought ‘solution’ has issues
Fox2Now

Missouri River Floodplain Resiliency
Missouri River Floodplain Expansion, Services, and Resiliency
Eos

Fewer than 250 adult Atlantic Sturgeon
Fewer than 250 adult Atlantic sturgeon remain in the Delaware River. Shipping could be its biggest threat
WHYY PBS

Breach of Dams will Aid Fish Recovery
Breach of Lower Snake River dams will aid recovery of native fish, new study says
Oregon State University

Paddlers Retrace Lewis and Clark Trek
Dedicated to memory of Sioux Center native: Nearly 120 paddlers to retrace Lewis and Clark's Missouri River trek
Sioux City Journal

Troubled Waters
Troubled Waters: For decades, biologists and anglers stocked national parks with nonnative trout. What will it take to undo the ecological damage?
National Parks, the magazine of the national parks conservation association