From:
GREENLines, Wednesday October 8, 2003, Issue 1966

CORPS PROMISES BARGES FIRST! POLICY:
The Army Corps of Engineers has announced that "it does not intend to lower
flows" on the Missouri River next year to aid the survival of ESA listed
species says Greenwire 10/3.  The Corps' decision is apparently in open
defiance of a July 2003 court ruling that ordered "lower flows for one month
during the summer to aid the endangered pallid sturgeon, interior least tern
and piping plover" and conservationists promised a new round of court
battles.  Unhappy with a USFWS finding that the lower flows are needed, the
Corps also plans to release its own biological assessment that calls for
habitat restoration but no changes in the flows to accommodate nesting and
spawning.

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