Feds, scientists share concerns with Mo. River spring pulse
Sunday, February 12, 2012
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two federal agencies are backing an independent science panel's findings that a so-called
Feds, scientists share concerns with Mo. River spring pulse
Sunday, February 12, 2012
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two federal agencies are backing an independent science panel's findings that a so-called "spring pulse" on the Missouri River isn't accomplishing its goal of encouraging the endangered pallid sturgeon to spawn.
Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spoke this month to a committee tasked by Congress to study the river its tributaries and make recommendations on how to help the pallid sturgeon as well as two other endangered species.
That committee, the Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee, had asked a science panel whose members include university researchers to study the effect of the spring pulse, which involved releasing extra water from upstream reservoirs in March and May.
The federal officials agreed