Battle over proposed Yellowstone River dam ramps up
Source: Associated Press
Battle over proposed Yellowstone River dam ramps up
By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press | June 19, 2015 | Updated: June 19, 2015 10:31pm
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An escalating legal fight over a $59 million federal dam project on Montana's lower Yellowstone River could decide the fate of an endangered, dinosaur-like fish population that has been blocked from its spawning grounds for decades.
Construction on the dam northeast of Glendive is set to begin in September.
Environmentalists this week asked U.S. District Judge Brian Morris to block the work. They say a proposed bypass channel meant to let pallid sturgeon circumvent the dam could fail, dooming the population of aging fish that can reach five feet in length.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Interior Department say the two-mile channel would allow sturgeon to access an additional 165 river miles upstream for migration and spawning. Government biologists say that is a potential lifeline for the recovery of a population that has dwindled to an estimated 125 wild fish. There's also an unknown number of younger, hatchery-raised sturgeon.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/science/article/Groups-move-to-block-construction-of-Yellowstone-6337652.php
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Did they or did they not fail in there job description to create a levee system in Louisiana to protect from Hurricanes, that has decimated the bayou and its netter defense from hurricanes-called land mass.
They designed a gigantic sewer system that just does not do the job----------amazing
Did they or did they not fail to contain an evasive carp population (South East Asia) which as or is about to invade the Great lakes, because of the same sewer levee system that was put in place in Louisiana to have big ships come in
And now they want to propose a plan to divert a water system for the sturgeon------------instead of proposing lets say-solar panels, wind turbines----------------nope.
We truly are a stupid species, thinking that another species will just say to themselves-------see they made this object to block our species---------because of greed, they want us to go around this object, because they made this object to do this-----------------that's our logic
