Physical aquatic habitat assessment, Fort Randall segment of the Missouri River, Nebraska and South Dakota

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline M. Elliott ◽  
Robert B. Jacobson ◽  
Aaron J. DeLonay
Keyword(s):  
South Dakota ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
Aquatic Habitat ◽  
Habitat Assessment

Habitat assessment, Missouri River at Hermann, Missouri

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Jacobson ◽  
Mark S. Laustrup ◽  
Joanna M. Reuter
Keyword(s):  
Missouri River ◽  
Habitat Assessment

Recent Investigations in Fort Randall And Oahe Reservoirs, South Dakota

1949 ◽  
Vol 14 (4Part1) ◽  
pp. 300-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul L. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
South Dakota ◽  
North Dakota ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
Army Corps ◽  
Army Corps Of Engineers ◽  
Northern Limit ◽  
Corps Of Engineers ◽  
Basin Development ◽  
Under Construction

One of the consequences of the Missouri Basin development program will be the virtual obliteration of the Missouri River between Yankton, South Dakota, and the Montana-North Dakota line. The lakes to be created by the various dams proposed or under construction by the Army Corps of Engineers will inundate all but short stretches of the terraces on which are situated literally hundreds of fortified and unfortified earth-lodge villages and other, earlier, occupational sites. Situated near the northern limit of agriculture but heavily populated by sedentary, horticultural people for a period of several hundreds of years, this anthropologically fascinating area has been barely touched scientifically.

The Southern Cult in the Northern Plains

1953 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Howard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Dakota ◽  
North Dakota ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
Northern Plains ◽  
The North ◽  
Platform Mounds ◽  
River Valleys

Recently renewed interest has been focused upon the occurrence in the Plains area of the archaeological complex often termed the “Southern cult.” This complex is found over a wide geographic area and in association with varied cultures. It occurs throughout the southeastern United States, and extends north and west along the Mississippi and Missouri River valleys. It has been found in eastern South Dakota, eastern North Dakota, and in the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Canada. The complex is characterized by specific art motifs and ceremonial objects, including masklike whelk shell gorgets, and the cross, forkedeye, and hand-and-eye motifs. The complex was apparently fundamentally dependent upon a horticultural base, and is associated in nearly every case with platform mounds. Sites often thought of in connection with the Southern cult are Etowah (Georgia), Moundville (Alabama), and Spiro (Oklahoma). The author has recently examined materials in the collections of the North Dakota State Historical Museum for artifacts related to the complex.

scholarly journals Size-Dependent Trophic Patterns of Pallid Sturgeon and Shovelnose Sturgeon in a Large River System

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. French ◽  
Brian D. S. Graeb ◽  
Katie N. Bertrand ◽  
Steven R. Chipps ◽  
Robert A. Klumb
Keyword(s):  
South Dakota ◽  
Trophic Position ◽  
Fork Length ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
River System ◽  
Large River ◽  
Diet Shift ◽  
Fish Prey ◽  
Shovelnose Sturgeon ◽  
Pallid Sturgeon

Abstract This study compared patterns of δ15N and δ13C enrichment of pallid sturgeon Scaphirhynchus albus and shovelnose sturgeon S. platorynchus in the Missouri River, United States, to infer their trophic position in a large river system. We examined enrichment and energy flow for pallid sturgeon in three segments of the Missouri River (Montana/North Dakota, Nebraska/South Dakota, and Nebraska/Iowa) and made comparisons between species in the two downstream segments (Nebraska/South Dakota and Nebraska/Iowa). Patterns in isotopic composition for pallid sturgeon were consistent with gut content analyses indicating an ontogenetic diet shift from invertebrates to fish prey at sizes of >500-mm fork length (FL) in all three segments of the Missouri River. Isotopic patterns revealed shovelnose sturgeon did not experience an ontogenetic shift in diet and used similar prey resources as small (<500-mm FL) pallid sturgeon in the two downstream segments. We found stable isotope analysis to be an effective tool for evaluating the trophic position of sturgeons within a large river food web.

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