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Click Presentation to edit Master Summary title style River Click History edit Master text styles Missouri River Third Recovery level Program Fourth Habitat level Creation Hatchery Support Flow Modification Science Program Adaptive Management Public Involvement
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Fort Peck Click to edit Master title style Sakakawea Williston Great Falls Oahe ND MT Pierre Sharpe SD Francis Case Yankton Lewis & Clark Omaha Pick-Sloan Plan -Flood Control -Navigation -Irrigation -Power Supply -Water Supply -Water Quality -Recreation Sioux City Navigation Channel (BSNP) WY CO IA 3,768 km long (2341 miles) NE KS Kansas City MO Boonville St. Louis
Click to edit Master title style Hydrologic Alteration, Sioux City, Iowa (RM 735) Click 70to edit Master text styles Second 60 level Third 50level Discharge, kcfs 80 Fourth 40 level Fifth 30level 20 ROR Current Natural Water- Hydrograph Control Plan 10 25-10 % 75-25 % 90-75 % 0 Jan Mar May July Sep Nov
Bank Click Stabilization to edit Master title style and Navigation Click Project to edit Master text styles Construction (1912 1981)
Bank Click Stabilization to edit Master title style and Navigation Click Project to edit Master text styles Construction (1912 1981)
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Year 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 Missouri River Recovery Program Click to edit Master title style Corps of Engineers Structures Lower 500 miles of the Missouri River Number of New Dikes Second 0 level 3 107 Fourth 120level 241 681 Miles of Revetment Number of Dike Extensions 5 0 17 0 36 34 39 42 119 67 179 130 1940 2,572 328 843 1950 2,804 413 972 1960 3,907 474 1659 1970 4,507 566 2984 1977 4,745 599 3371
Click Suspended to edit Sediment Master title Changes style Meade & Moody 2008
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Fort Peck Click to edit Master title style Williston Great Falls MT Sakakawea Oahe ND Pierre Sharpe Francis Case SD Yankton Omaha Lewis & Clark Sioux City Least altered Reservoir Inter-reservoir Channelized 3,768 km long (2341 miles) WY CO NE KS Kansas City IA MO Boonville St. Louis Credit: Wayne Nelson-Stastney
Click to edit Master title style Ecosystem Impacts Click Three million to edit acres Master of text styles natural habitat altered Second level Nonnative fish dominate Third many reaches level 51 of 67 native fish species Fourth level listed as rare or decreasing Production of key food sources for native fish reduced by 70% -National Research Council, 2002
Click to edit Master title style Ecosystem Impacts Click 80% reduction to edit in Master piping plover text styles habitat - 2000 BiOp Third Under current level management practices, cottonwood forest will Fourth essentially level be lost as a significant community on remnant floodplain is less than half a century - Galat et al, 2005
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Click Visionto edit Master title style Click to edit Master A text sustainable styles ecosystem supporting thriving populations of native species while providing for current social and economic values.
Click Mission to edit Master title style Click Implement to edit actions Master to text accomplish styles Missouri Second River ecosystem level recovery goals in Third coordination level and collaboration with agency partners and stakeholders. There are not many rivers, one for each of us, but only this one river, and if we all want to stay here, in some kind of relation to the river, then we have to learn, somehow, to live together. Daniel Kemmis Community and the Politics of Place, 1990.
Click Key to Authorities edit Master and title Mandates style Flood Control Act of 1944 Click to edit Master text styles Master Water Control Manual Second level Endangered Species Act 2003 Amended Biological Opinion Fourth WRDA level 1986, 1999, 2007
Click Key Recovery to edit Master Elements title style Habitat Creation Shallow Water Emergent Sandbar Floodplain Restoration Hatchery Support Flow Modification Science Program Adaptive Management Public Involvement
Click to edit Master title style Habitat Creation GOAL Click to edit Master text styles Second Provide habitat level for Third native level fish and wildlife Fourth by restoring level natural features and functions.
Click Habitat to edit Creation Master title style Floodplain Second Restoration level Map, evaluate, and restore cottonwood forests Bald Eagle Habitat Create wetlands & reconnect floodplains Restore native vegetation Restore 32% (166,750 acres) of habitat lost to the BSNP
Click Floodplain to edit Reconnection Master title style May 11, 2007
Click Habitat to edit Creation Master title style The SHALLOW Second WATERlevel Third HABITAT level PROGRAM Creating 20-30 acres per mile of shallow water habitat by 2020 Restoring river width and diversity Restoring chutes, backwaters, and side channels
Click Habitat to Creation edit Master title style The Click SHALLOW to edit Master text styles WATER HABITAT Second PROGRAM level 2010 acreage goal: 5,870 acres 2015 acreage goal: 11,739 acres 2020 acreage goal: 19,565 acres On target with BiOp through 2007 Replaces approximately 20% of the aquatic habitat lost to the BSNP
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Click Dike Root to edit Removal Master title / Bank style Notching Mile 480
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Click to edit Master title style Revetment Chute Wolf Creek RM 480 October 2006 August 2008
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Click Habitat to edit Creation Master title style The EMERGENT Click to edit Master text styles SANDBAR HABITAT PROGRAM Second level Mechanically building and maintaining sandbars Clearing existing sandbars of vegetation Continue to use flows within constraints of the Master Manual Investigate potential reservoir habitat
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Click Hatchery to edit Support Master title style Click Raising to pallid edit Master sturgeon text in styles hatcheries and Second stocking level them in the river are temporary Third solutions level that help recovery while habitat is being restored.
Click Hatchery to edit Support Master title style Second 60,000 fish level in 2008 Hatchery capacity increased from 6,000 to Can provide 2,973 one year old fish each year Fish stocked in 1993 now used as brood fish Stocked fish provide an important tool for evaluating spring pulse and habitat creation actions Excess hatchery production used in research and education
Click Population to edit Monitoring Master title Summary style - 2006 123,638 Click to edit fish Master collected text in styles Upper Basin 53 individual species 91,713 Fourth level fish collected in Lower Basin 97 individual species 222 pallid sturgeon were sampled
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Click Flow to Modification edit Master title style GOAL Implement a more Second natural flow level regime to Third benefit level native fish and Fourth wildlife level while seeking Fifth balance level with social, economic, and cultural resources.
Click Flow to Modification edit Master title style The SPRING Click to edit Master text styles PULSE PROGRAM Stored water is released from Gavins Point Dam during March and May to mimic natural spring river rise Goals: Evaluate sediment movement Contribute to pallid sturgeon reproduction/recruitment Dependent on storage/runoff
Click Science to edit Master title style GOAL Click to edit Master text styles Second Ensure that level Third management level Fourth decisions level are based on the best available science.
Click Science to edit Master title style Research Monitoring Evaluation Independent review Education/outreach
Click Adaptive to edit Management Master title style More informed decisions Reduces uncertainty Improves public involvement Provides transparency
Click Public to edit Involvement Master title style GOAL Establish collaborative stakeholder processes and educational opportunities Third to provide levelinsight and recommendations Fourth on recovery level activities.
Click to edit Master title style Stakeholder Collaboration - Missouri River Resource Implementation Committee (MRRIC) Second 28 Stakeholders level, 8 States, 14 Federal Agencies, 18 Tribes = Table for 68
Click Presentation to edit Master Summary title style River History MRRP Elements Habitat Creation Hatchery Support Flow Modification Science Program Adaptive Management Public Involvement
Click to edit Master title style Third http://www.moriverrecovery.org level chance.j.bitner@usace.army.mil
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Click to edit Master title style Missouri River on America s Most Endangered Rivers List (top ten rivers listed annually) 1994 Click - Dams to edit and Master channelization text styles 1996 - Dams, flood control 1997 Navigation 1998 Fourth - Channelization, level dams 1999 Fifth - Channelization, level dams, etc 1995 - Navigation and agricultural runoff 2000 - Dam operations 2001 - Dam operations 2002 - Dam operations
Click to edit Master title style 50 40 30 20 10 Dike After Modification Dike Before Modification Full Service Navigation Stage Flow Conveyance Zone Fifth Area of Modified level Dike Is Equal to Area of Unmodified Dike Navigation Channel 300 0 200 400 600 Extension creates highly complex aquatic habitat. Sandbar formation downstream of extension and secondary channel next to bank. 800 1,000
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Click Construction to edit Summary Master title style (2000 to 2006) 825 Click Dike to edit Notches Master (mile text 0 styles to 500) Second 185 Revetment level Notches (mile 0 to 500) 85 Third Bank level Notches (mile 130 to 481) 16 Fourth Revetment level Chutes (mile 170 to 481) Fifth 22 Chutes level (mile 132 to 750) 3 extension / notching projects 135 + acres of backwaters (mile 507 to 750)
Click Placement to edit Rate Master title style Sediment Data at Hermann, MO (1989-1992, and 1996-2001) 60,000 Click to edit Master text styles Second Land-Based level Either Dredging Equipment 50,000 Equipment Method 40,000 30,000 Sediment Discharge (tons / hour) 20,000 10,000 River Sediment Transport Rate Maximum Placement Rate 0 0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000 120,000 140,000 160,000 180,000 200,000 Water Discharge (cubic feet per second)
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Click to edit Master title style Water Resources Development Act of 2007 MRRIC 2003 Biological Opinion Provide Recommendations The Corps Study of the Missouri River and its Tributaries The Corps Current Missouri River Mitigation and Recovery Plan Missouri River species recovery work by USFWS and basin agencies