Missouri River in a sentence

Benke and Cushing, p. 438 The World Wide Fund For Nature divides the Missouri River watershed into three freshwater ecoregions : the Upper Missouri, Lower Missouri and Central Prairie.

As for the Missouri River, results indicated that residence times were approximately 4 years with the prompt-flow component being around 10% (these results are due to the series of dams in the area of the Missouri River).

By the early 18th century the Osage had become the dominant power in the Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas, controlling much of the land between the Red River and Missouri River.

In 1808 two military forts with trading factories were built, Fort Osage along the Missouri River in western present-day Missouri and Fort Madison along the Upper Mississippi River in eastern present-day Iowa.

The refuge is along the Missouri River near Missouri Valley, Iowa.

Fort Raymond was later replaced by Fort Lisa at the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone in North Dakota; a second fort also called Fort Lisa was built downstream on the Missouri River in Nebraska.

Nebraska seeAlso Chimney Rock, Nebraska Those emigrants on the eastern side of the Missouri River in Missouri or Iowa used ferries and steamboats (fitted out for ferry duty) to cross into towns in Nebraska.

The "Missouri Rhineland" along the valley of the Missouri River is known for its wineries.

The state is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, across the Missouri River ; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwest; and Wyoming to the west.

They established their traditional crops and livestock in Middle Tennessee and an area of Missouri along the Missouri River.

At St. Louis, the Mississippi River welcomes the Missouri River which has just drained most of America’s plains regions and some of the Northwest.

The Army Corps of Engineers is monitoring river gauges along the Missouri River basin.

That includes more than 200 miles (321.85 kilometers) of the upper Mississippi River and a stretch of the Missouri River stretching from Kansas City to St. Louis, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The Kansas City District has held Kansas River reservoir releases to minimum amounts to mitigate for high Missouri River flows and will continue to hold water until conditions allow for releases.

A great way to explore the outdoors is a kayak trip on the river; Missouri River Kayak Rentals can hook you up with gear.

Half of the people followed the Columbia and Snake Rivers to the Missouri River east and to the Mississippi River.

After ferrying across the Missouri River and establishing wagon trains near what became Omaha, the Mormons followed the northern bank of the Platte River in Nebraska to Fort Laramie in present-day Wyoming.

As the years passed, the Oregon Trail became a heavily used corridor from the Missouri River to the Columbia River.

Both the Mississippi River and the Missouri River have cut large valleys with wide flood plains.

Currently, efforts are being made to revive the shipping industry on the Missouri River, because of the efficiency and cheapness of river transport to haul agricultural products, and the overcrowding of alternative transportation routes.