March 21-23, 2017

Lied Lodge and Conference Center - Nebraska City, NE

2017 Missouri River

Natural Resources Conference

& BiOp Forum

“Habitat: The Pathway To Recovery”

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Welcome to the 2017 MRNRC Conference and BiOp Forum

Welcome to the 21st Missouri River Natural Resources Conference and BiOp Forum.

We are glad you could join us once again at this wonderful facility in Nebraska City.

We hope you find this week both informative and a useful forum for communication

between research and resource managers.

We are all here because we have an interest in the Missouri River, one of the great

aquatic ecosystems of this continent. As with all large riverine systems, you could

say it is defined by change. As this great river flows from its headwaters in the

mountains of Montana to its mouth at St. Louis, change is constant. There are

changes in size and flow characteristics, the addition and loss of species, and

changing habitat. Change may occur naturally over the river’s course or be

man-made changes from enormous reservoirs, channelization, and a drainage basin

that has changed dramatically over time.

We begin this dialog with the Plenary. First, a look at the potential for ecosystem

restoration and management options along the lower Missouri River based on the

hydrogeomorphic analysis conducted by Dr. Mickey Heitmeyer. Then, we will have

a chance to go ‘Upriver’, and contemplate how Missouri River efforts might mirror

one of this country’s greatest river restoration success stories. Finally, a challenge

will be presented by Dr. Mike Mac’s reflections of his time and views into the

ecology and people of the Missouri River.

The theme of the Conference this year is “Habitat: The Pathway to Recovery”.

Personally, I believe there could be no more important effort to focus on. Whether

you think of habitat on the macro or micro scale, every problem we are trying to

solve can be defined as habitat, and we will only succeed or fail based on habitat.

As we begin this conference our challenge to you is this: Have we done enough and

will we do enough to provide the habitat necessary to sustain this great ecosystem?

Do we have the correct mechanisms and goals in place? Will we provide both the

quantity and quality of habitat needed to ensure this great ecosystem is sustainable

into the future?

Thank you for attending and enjoy the conference.

Steve Adams

2017 MRNRC Chair

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The Missouri River Natural Resource Committee was formed in 1987 by state fish and

wildlife agencies in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and

Missouri who have statutory management responsibility for public trust natural

resources. Its Mission is to promote and facilitate the preservation, conservation, and

enhancement of the natural resources of the Missouri River System. Non-voting

representatives include the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Power

Administration, and the National Park Service. MRNRC objectives include: 1)

identifying and prioritizing issues of concern in the Missouri River System for

cooperative resource management, 2) formulate plans and programs for carrying on

cooperative research and management studies, 3) improve coordination,

communication, and cooperation among entities responsible for natural resource

management on the Missouri River, and 4) encourage implementation of actions to

preserve, conserve, and enhance natural resources of the Missouri River System.

List of Missouri River Conferences

Year Location Theme

1997 Columbia, MO • Missouri River: Past, Present, Future

1998 Nebraska City, NE • The Floodplain of the Future

1999 Pierre, SD • Sustaining the Missouri River for Future

Generations

2000 Bismarck, ND • Missouri River Management:

It’s Everybody’s Business

2001 Great Falls, MT • 2001 - Missouri River Odyssey

2002 South Sioux City, NE • Big River Science-Meeting the Challenge of

Change

2003 Atchison, KS • Restoring the “Butifull Praree & Timber

Diversity”

2004 Columbia, MO • Rediscovering Missouri River Connections

2005 Pierre, SD • Many Voices, One Horizon

2006 South Sioux City, NE • Collaborating in the Current

2007 Nebraska City, NE • Adapting to Adaptive Management

2008 Nebraska City, NE • From a Healthy Ecosystem to a Healthy

Economy: A River in Transition

2009 Billings, Montana • Beyond the Bend

2010 Nebraska City, NE • Missouri River “A Climate for Change”

2011 Nebraska City, NE • The Missouri River: On the Road to Recovery

2012 Pierre, SD • The Big Muddy: What Have We Learned?

2013 Jefferson City, MO • Beyond the Banks

2014 Nebraska City, NE • Understanding the Landscape

2015 Nebraska City, NE • Year of the River

2016 Great Falls, MT • Challenges and Opportunities: Connecting

People and The River

2017 Nebraska City, NE • Habitat: The Pathway to Recovery

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Missouri River Champion Award Winners

Year Name 1997 • Bill Mauck, USGS

2002 • Douglas Bereuter, U.S. Congressman-NE

2004 • Roger Collins and Jim Milligan, USFWS

2005 • Tom Daschle, U.S. Senator -SD

2006 • W. Don Nelson, Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Ben

Nelson-NE

2007 • Garrison (ND), Gavins Point Dam (SD) and Neosho (MO)

NFH, USFWS; and Blind Pony (MO) SFH, MDC

2008 • Tom Gengerke, IDNR; John Cooper, SDGF&P

2009 • Mike Olson, USFWS; Tony Dean, Outdoor

Communicator - SD

2010 • Mick Sandine and Glen Covington, USACE

2011 • Mike Hayden, KWP 2012 • Jim Riis, SDGF&P; David Pope, MORAST 2013 • Larry Hesse, Rivers Corp.; BG John R. McMahon, USACE 2014 • Robert Klumb, USFWS 2015 • Mike George, Ducks Unlimited 2016 • Gene Zuerlein, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

The Missouri River Champion Award recognizes individuals or groups that have

made significant contributions to the enhancement, preservation, or protection of

the Missouri River ecosystem and the fish, wildlife and other natural resources.

Your meeting registration covers all meals on Wednesday, breakfast on Thursday,

all socials, and breaks each day. All events (meals, technical sessions, breaks, and

socials) require that you wear your conference name tag for the duration of

the function. If you do not have it on, you will not be allowed entrance to the

event, or will be asked to leave the event until you have it.

Program Note: In order to allow more time for questions and answers, the

planning committee has increased the amount of time allocated to each oral

presentation time slot to 25 minutes and increased the length of the poster session.

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive

personality than does the Missouri River. It’s a river that

immediately presents to the traveler, I am a grandfather spirit.

I have a source; I have a life.

- William Lease Heat Moon

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Daily Events At-a-Glance

Tuesday 3/21 Locations - Lower Lobby, Rosenow Room, and

Steinhart Lodge

12:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Registration (Lower Lobby Lied Lodge)

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Hang up Posters (Rosenow Room)

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Field Tour - Langdon Bend

7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Social (Steinhart Lodge)

Wednesday 3/22 Locations - Lower Lobby, Rosenow Room, Steinhart

Rooms, and Steinhart Lodge

7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration (Lower Lobby Lied Lodge)

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast (Rosenow Room)

8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Welcome, Awards, and Plenary Session (Rosenow Room)

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (Steinhart Rooms)

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch (Rosenow Room)

1:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (Steinhart Rooms)

4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Poster Session (Rosenow Room)

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Dinner (Rosenow Room)

7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Social (Steinhart Lodge)

Side Meetings

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. MRNRC Delegates (Marcotte Room)

7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. USFWS (Steinhart A)

Thursday 3/23 Locations - Lower Lobby, Rosenow Room, Steinhart

Rooms, and Steinhart Lodge

7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration (Lower Lobby Lied Lodge)

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast (Rosenow Room)

8:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions (Steinhart Rooms)

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Wednesday, March 22nd - Welcome, Awards, and Plenary Location - Rosenow Room

8:00 a.m. Welcome, Awards, and Conference Logistics

Steve Adams, Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks

Chair, MRNRC Delegates

Chris Larson, Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Chair, Conference Planning Committee

8:15 a.m. Hydrogeomorphic Evaluation of Ecosystem Restoration Options

in the Missouri River Floodplain from St. Louis to Gavins Point

Dam - Dr. Mickey Heitmeyer, Greenbrier Wetland Services

8:55 a.m. “Upriver” - Directed by Jeremy Monroe

Upriver is an immersive exploration of one of the Nation’s most

active river conservation movements. Within Oregon’s heavily

populated Willamette River system, the film focuses on people from

all walks of life who are coming together in forests, farmlands, and

cities to revive the health of this large river and the life it supports.

The film gives hope and how-tos to anyone working to protect our

most precious resource… and is a poetic reminder that we all live

Upriver.

10:05 a.m. Achieving Meaningful Ecosystem Restoration on the Missouri River

Michael J. Mac, Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee

10:30 a.m. BREAK

Rob Klumb Student Travel Grant Award Recipients

Addie Dutton is or iginally from Fife Lake, Michigan. She received her B.S. in

Fisheries and Wildlife Management from Lake Superior State University in Sault

Ste. Marie, MI. She has worked numerous seasonal fisheries jobs with the USFWS,

EPA, and MI Department of Natural Resources. Currently, Addie is a student in Dr.

Chris Guy’s lab at Montana State University-Bozeman where she is researching

how the Pallid Sturgeon propagation program is affecting the food web in the upper

Missouri and lower Yellowstone Rivers. After graduating with her master’s, Addie

hopes to work as a fisheries research biologist.

Lindsay Wise is an undergraduate student at the University of North Dakota

studying Fisheries and Wildlife Biology. Lindsay has been working for the past

year and half with PhD student Alicia Andes to evaluate parental behaviors of least

terns and piping plovers relative to varying environmental temperatures. Her

research requires careful observation of countless hours of nesting video and then

to correspond those behaviors to sand temperature data collected from

thermocouples at the nesting site. She will be graduating this coming May and

anticipates graduate school in the fall.

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Plenary Speakers

Mickey Heitmeyer is the owner of

Greenbrier Wetland Services – a private

conservation consulting business

specializing in ecosystem restoration

and management. He received a B.S. in

Fish and Wildlife Conservation from the

University of Missouri-Columbia, an

M.S. in Wildlife Biology from

Oklahoma State University, and a Ph.D.

in Wildlife Ecology from the University

of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Heitmeyer

has completed restoration/management

plans for over 100 sites throughout North America, including U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuges, State Conservation Areas, and

landscape-level regions in areas along the Gulf Coast, Pacific Northwest, Great

Basin, Missouri River Corridor, Upper and Middle Mississippi River System, Great

Lakes, and Mississippi Alluvial Valley. He is a leading North American expert in

using hydrogeomorphic (HGM) methodology to evaluate ecosystem restoration and

management options especially in riverine, floodplain, and wetland systems. He is

also recognized as initiating the concept of “cross-seasonal” effects in waterfowl

ecology where energetic, physiological, behavioral adaptations of species during

nonbreeding periods and locations impact eventual reproductive success and

survival.

Michael J. Mac was selected as chair of the

Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee

in May 2011 after a 36 year career with the US

Department of Interior. Between 2001-2010, Dr.

Mac was the Director of the US Geological Survey,

Columbia Environmental Research Center in

Columbia, Missouri. There he administered a $15M

research program focused on Missouri River biology

and hydrology, and water quality effects in aquatic

organisms. Prior to that, he served in the

Headquarters offices for the US Geological Survey

and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, leading

research programs in Fishery Science and Status and Trends of Biological

Resources. Between 1973-1992, he conducted research in the Great Lakes on the

effects of environmental contaminants on aquatic organisms and developing

indicators of fish health. He received a B.S. in Biology from Wayne State

University, an M.S. in Fisheries from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in

Physiology and Zoology from the University of Wyoming. He is also a graduate of

the Federal Executive institute, in Charlottesville VA and received the Department

of Interior Meritorious Service Award in 2000.

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Wednesday, March 22nd — Morning, Concurrent Session A Location – Steinhart A&B

Session 1A: Pallid Sturgeon Early Life History Habitat Moderator — Kyle Winders, Missouri Department of Conservation

10:45 a.m. The Influence of Shallow-Water Habitat on Age-0 Shovelnose Sturgeon

Diet and Condition

Anthony P. Civiello, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

11:10 a.m. Monitoring of Deer Island Shallow Water Habitat Project: Potential

Implications for Future River Restoration Projects

Ryan Hupfeld, Iowa Department of Conservation

11:35 a.m. Effects of Sediment Cover on Survival of Developing Scaphirhynchus

Sturgeon Embryos

Kimberly A. Chojnacki, U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia

Environmental Research Center

12:00 p.m. LUNCH

Photo by: Sam Stukel, South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks

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Wednesday, March 22nd — Morning, Concurrent Session B Location – Steinhart C&D

Session 1B: Restoration Opportunities and Piping Plovers Moderator — Aaron Gregor, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

10:45 a.m. Sixty Years of Geomorphic Change and Ecological Restoration Challenges

on Two Unchannelized Reaches of the Missouri River

Caroline M. Elliott, U.S. Geological Survey

11:10 a.m. Depositional Potential, Maximum Heights, and Erosional Dynamics of

Emergent Sandbars: Lessons from the Lower Platte River

Jason S. Alexander, University of Wyoming - Department of Geology and

Geophysics

11:35 a.m. Conservation of Piping Plovers on the Missouri River: Thinking Beyond the

Banks

Michael J. Anteau, U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife

Research Center

12:00 p.m. LUNCH

Brooky Bottom - Photo by: Paul Lepisto, Izaak Walton League of America

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Wednesday, March 22nd — Afternoon, Concurrent Session A Location – Steinhart A&B

Session 2A: IRC Habitat Moderator — Pete Hildreth, Iowa Department of Natural Resources

1:00 p.m. Habitat Evaluation of a Modeled Reach of the Missouri National

Recreational River

Gerald E. Mestl, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

1:25 p.m. Identifying Potential Age-0 Sturgeon Interception Habitat in the Upper

Channelized Missouri River

Jerrod R. Hall, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

1:50 p.m. The Hydraulics of Free-embryo Interception – What Do We Know, and

What Can We Learn?

Edward A. Bulliner, U.S. Geological Survey

2:15 p.m. Concepts and Questions about Interception Rearing Complexes

Robert B. Jacobson, U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental

Research Center

2:40 p.m. BREAK

Session 3A: Drift Dynamics Moderator — Aaron DeLonay, U.S. Geological Survey

3:00 p.m. Estimating the Speed and Pathways of Drifting Pallid Sturgeon Larvae in the

Missouri River Downstream of Fort Peck Dam using 3D Hydro-

Acoustic River Mapping, River Analyzer

Brian L. Marotz, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

3:25 p.m. Dispersal of Pallid Sturgeon and Acipenseriform Free Embryos in the

Missouri River: Progress-to-Date for the 2016 Test of the Larval Drift

Hypothesis

Patrick J. Braaten, U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental

Research Center

3:50 p.m. Dye-Trace Experiment and Hydraulic Data Collection to Evaluate

Management Scenarios on the Upper Missouri River

Susannah O. Erwin, U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental

Research Center

4:15 p.m. POSTER SESSION

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Wednesday, March 22nd — Afternoon, Concurrent Session B Location – Steinhart C&D

Session 2B: Sedimentation and Water Quality Moderator — Tom Boersig, Missouri Department of Conservation

1:00 p.m. Evolution of Yellowstone River Sediment Monitoring in the Great Plains

Region of the Upper Missouri River Basin

Christopher A. Ellison, U.S. Geological Survey

1:25 p.m. Physical Changes in the MNRR 59-Mile District between 1989 and 2016

Brian L. Korman, National Park Service - Missouri National Recreational

River

1:50 p.m. Sediment Sources and Impacts of the 2011 flood on the Lewis and Clark

Lake Delta

Mark R. Sweeney, University of South Dakota

2:15 p.m. Monitoring the Downstream Impacts of Shallow-Water Habitat

Construction Activities on the Missouri River

David L. Rus, U.S. Geological Survey, Nebraska Water Science Center

2:40 p.m. BREAK

Session 3B: Adaptive Management and Missouri River Recovery

Management Plan EIS Update Moderator — Mary Roth, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

3:00 p.m. Strategic Planning Under Adaptive Management

Craig A. Fleming, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

3:25 p.m. Science-Based Decision Making in Adaptive Management for the

Missouri River Recovery Program

Kate E. Buenau, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

3:50 p.m. Managing the Management Plan: an Update on the Missouri River Recovery

Management Plan Draft EIS

Mark C. Harberg, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

4:15 p.m. POSTER SESSION

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POSTER SESSION — 4:15pm -5:00pm

Location - Rosenow Room

The National Water Model

Kevin W. Low, NOAA National Weather Service, Missouri Basin River

Forecast Center

The Status of Blue Suckers in the Missouri and Kansas Rivers

Joshua D. Bruegge, Missouri Department of Conservation

Movements of Native Species Relative to Intake Diversion Dam on the

Yellowstone River

Mathew L. Rugg, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

Dissolved Oxygen Concentrations in the Transitional Zone of Lewis and Clark

Lake

Nathaniel J. Schaepe, U.S. Geological Survey

Exploring Inter-relationships Among Pallid and Shovelnose Sturgeons, Chubs,

and Invertebrates Using a Lower Missouri River Community Model

Mark L. Wildhaber, U.S. Geological Survey - Columbia Environmental

Research Center

Free Embryo Development of Pallid Sturgeon and Shovelnose Sturgeon

Reared in the Laboratory

Kimberly A. Chojnacki, U.S. Geological Survey - Columbia Environmental

Research Center

Is She a 10? Can Overall Body Condition (Kn) be used to Determine

Reproductiveness in Pallid Sturgeon, and Are Body Conditions Significantly

Variable Through Time? Jane E. Cotton, Missouri Department of Conservation

Bolton - Photo by: Paul Lepisto, Izaak Walton League of America

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POSTER SESSION — 4:15pm -5:00pm

Location - Rosenow Room

Pallid Sturgeon Spawning Habitat: What Is It, Where Is It, and How Do We

Know If It Is Working?

Caroline M. Elliott, U.S. Geological Survey

Is a Piece of the Puzzle Missing?

Cliff D. Wilson, Missouri Department of Conservation

Pre-Treatment Fish Communities of Two Missouri River Bends, Prior to IRC

Construction

Jacob N. McQuaid, Missouri Department of Conservation

Interception-Rearing Complexes: Age-0 Sturgeon Baseline Monitoring during

2016

Nathan J.C. Gosch, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Spatial Patterns in Vegetation Composition within a Novel Reservoir Delta on

the Missouri River, USA

Catherine Beall, University of South Dakota

Plovers Seek Citizen Scientists for Long Walks on the Beach!

Megan Ring, U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife

Research Center

The Effect of Variable Sand Temperatures on Least Tern and Piping Plover

Parental Nest Behaviors on the Missouri River

Lindsay M. Wise, University of North Dakota

Shorebird Parental Behaviors in Response to Research Activities

Alicia K. Andes, University of North Dakota

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in.

Unless people understand and learn about our world,

habitats, and animals, they won’t understand that if we

don’t protect those habitats, we’ll eventually destroy

ourselves.

- Jack Hanna

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Thursday, March 23rd — Morning, Concurrent Session A Location – Steinhart A&B

Session 4A: Pallid Sturgeon Population-Level Analyses Moderator — Tyler Ruoff, Missouri Department of Conservation

8:00 a.m. Assessing Range-wide Population Genetics and Hybridization in Pallid

and Shovelnose Sturgeon

Edward J. Heist, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

8:25 a.m. Conservation Propagation of Pallid Sturgeon: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Addie J. Dutton, Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, Montana

State University-Department of Ecology

8:50 a.m. Pallid Sturgeon Propagation: Are We Stocking in the Correct Spot?

Thomas R. Huffmon, Missouri Department of Conservation

9:15 a.m. Using the Robust Design Framework and Relative Abundance to Predict

the Population Size of Pallid Sturgeon in the Lower Missouri River

Kirk D. Steffensen, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

9:40 a.m. BREAK

Session 5A: Pallid Sturgeon Monitoring and Technical Review Moderator — Gerald Mestl, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

10:00 a.m. Migration and Spawning of Pallid Sturgeon in the Platte River, Nebraska

Ryan L. Ruskamp, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

10:25 a.m. Evolving Role of Telemetry to Support Pallid Sturgeon Recovery and

Missouri River Adaptive Management

Aaron J. DeLonay, U.S. Geological Survey - Columbia Environmental

Research Center

10:50 a.m. Pallid Sturgeon Monitoring Update in Lower Half of Segment 9 and

Segment 10 in the Lower Missouri River

Adam J. McDaniel, Missouri Department of Conservation

When one tugs at a single thing in nature,

he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

- John Muir

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Thursday, March 23rd — Morning, Concurrent Session B Location – Steinhart C&D

Session 4B: Education, Habitat, and Land Management Moderator — Michael Gossenauer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

8:00 a.m. Instructional Strategies for Teaching about the Missouri River

Kristen A. Schulte, Missouri River Relief

8:25 a.m. Development and Modeling of Missouri River Habitat Classes Within a

Hydrologic Framework

Elizabeth A. Samson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and

Laura A. Totten, Louis Berger

8:50 a.m. Floodplain Inundation Mapping on the Lower Missouri River to Support

Current and Future Management Decisions

Garth A. Lindner, University of Missouri

9:40 a.m. BREAK

Session 5B: Aquatic Invasive Species Moderator — Emily Pherigo, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

10:00 a.m. Detection of Invasive Carp using Standard Electrofishing and Novel

Trawling Techniques in the Illinois River, IL

Jeremy Hammen, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

10:25 a.m. From Lab to Field: Comparing Estimates of Asian Carp Abundance using

eDNA, Netting and Side-scan Sonar Methods

Katy Klymus, U.S. Geological Survey

10:50 a.m. Zebra Mussel Status in Nebraska

Allison M. Zach, Nebraska Invasive Species Program

A man cannot step into the same river twice, for it’s not

the same river and he’s not the same man.

- Heraclitus

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Conference Donors

The following organizations generously provided assistance to

cover various costs of hosting the Conference and BiOp Forum.

Without their generosity, the cost of attending this event would

have been doubled. If you happen to see someone from these

organizations during the next few days please thank them for

assisting in defraying your costs to attend.

Conference Planning Committee

Chair - *Chris Larson, Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Co-Chair - Stacie Peitz, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

*Steve Adams, Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks

Pete Hildreth, Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Ryan Hupfeld, Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Paul Lepisto, Izaak Walton League of America

Gerald Mestl, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

**Wayne Nelson-Stastny, US Fish and Wildlife Service

*Kasey Whiteman, Missouri Department of Conservation

*Gene Zuerlein, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

*Don Skaar, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

*Chris Longhenry, South Dakota Department of Game,

Fish, and Parks

*Dave Fryda, North Dakota Game and Fish Department

*Missouri River Natural Resources Committee (MRNRC) state delegate

** MRNRC Coordinator

Cover Photos Credit

Top photo: Jameson Island side channel by Jane Ledwin, U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service

Bottom photo: Ponca Overlook - retrieved from Google Images