In Missouri River, sturgeon don't look their age
In the lower Missouri River, a fish with prehistoric ties has learned to live hard—and, too often, die young.
Plants & Animals
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News tagged with pallid sturgeon
Montana dam, passage to save fish lacks funding
A federal agency targeted by President Donald Trump for budget cuts next year has only about half the money needed to build a new Yellowstone River dam and a bypass channel meant to save an endangered fish, but it plans to ...
Environment
May 3, 2017
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Judge asked to lift hold on Yellowstone dam and protect fish
U.S. officials are pressing a federal judge to lift his 2015 order blocking a proposed irrigation dam and fish passage on the Yellowstone River, warning that a rapidly-disappearing, ancient fish species faces a grim future ...
Environment
Feb 2, 2017
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Officials skeptical $57M fish project will work
A group of Montana and federal wildlife officials has expressed opposition to a $57 million concrete dam and fish bypass that the U.S. government says would help an ancient and endangered fish species in the Yellowstone River.
Ecology
Aug 11, 2016
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APNewsBreak: US to consider alternative to Yellowstone dam (Update)
U.S. officials will consider an alternative to a dam proposed on the Yellowstone River over worries it could hurt an endangered fish species that dates to the time of dinosaurs, after a judge on Tuesday approved a settlement ...
Ecology
Jan 5, 2016
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Tentative agreement reached in dispute over endangered fish
Wildlife advocates reached a tentative agreement with the U.S. government in a legal dispute over an endangered fish in the Yellowstone River along the Montana-North Dakota border.
Ecology
Dec 21, 2015
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Endangered pallid sturgeon larvae found in Missouri River
Three fish larvae captured from the Missouri River last year have been confirmed as those of the endangered pallid sturgeon, the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday.
Ecology
Jul 30, 2015
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Battle over proposed Yellowstone River dam ramps up
An escalating legal fight over a $59 million federal dam project on Montana's lower Yellowstone River could decide the fate of an endangered, dinosaur-like fish population that has been blocked from its spawning grounds for ...
Environment
Jun 20, 2015
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Advocates: Dams put dinosaur-like river fish at risk
Wildlife advocates claimed in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that the dinosaur-like pallid sturgeon could be wiped out in stretches of rivers in Montana and North Dakota if the federal government doesn't deal with dams that ...
Ecology
Feb 2, 2015
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Culprit identified in decline of endangered Missouri River pallid sturgeon
Pallid sturgeon come from a genetic line that has lived on this planet for tens of millions of years; yet it has been decades since anyone has documented any of the enormous fish successfully producing young that survive ...
Ecology
Jan 23, 2015
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