Flooding to restore connectivity of regulated, large-river wetlands: Natural and controlled flooding as complementary processes along the lower Missouri River
BioScience
By: D.L. Galat, L.H. Fredrickson, D.D. Humburg, K.J. Bataille, J.R. Bodie, J. Dohrenwend, G.T. Gelwicks, J.E. Havel, D.L. Helmers, J.B. Hooker, J.R. Jones, M.F. Knowlton, J. Kubisiak, J. Mazourek, A.C. McColpin, Rochelle B. Renken, and R. D. Semlitsch
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Abstract
You can always count on finding the Mississippi just where you left it last year. But the Missouri is a tawny, restless, brawling flood. It cuts corners, runs around at night, fills itself with snags and traveling sandbars, lunches on levees, and swallows islands and small villages for dessert. Its perpetual dissatisfaction with its bed is the greatest peculiarity of the Missouri.… It makes farming as fascinating as gambling. You never know whether you are going to harvest corn or catfish (Fitch 1907, p. 637).
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Flooding to restore connectivity of regulated, large-river wetlands: Natural and controlled flooding as complementary processes along the lower Missouri River |
| Series title | BioScience |
| DOI | 10.2307/1313335 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Year Published | 1998 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Description | 13 p. |
| First page | 721 |
| Last page | 733 |
| Country | United States |
| Other Geospatial | Missouri River |
| Google Analytic Metrics | Metrics page |