The myth of environmental management: The corps, the Missouri River, and the channelization project

Agricultural History

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 337-350

  Schneiders, Bert ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNELISATION PROJECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; PLANNING HISTORY; RIVER ENGINEERING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

USA, IOWA, MISSOURI RIVER;

EID: 0030482028     PISSN: 00021482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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3. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, The Federal Engineer, Damsites to Missile Sites: A History of the Omaha District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, (Omaha: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, 1984), 230; George R. Hallberg, Jayne M. Harbaugh, and Patricia M. Witinok, Changes in the Channel Area of the Missouri River in Iowa, 1879-1976 (Iowa City: Iowa Geological Survey, 1979), 10; Missouri Basin States Association, "Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Plan," Proceedings of a Conference held in Des Moines, Iowa, 10-11 August 1983 (Omaha: Missouri Basin States Association, 1983), viii.
4. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, The Federal Engineer, Damsites to Missile Sites: A History of the Omaha District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, (Omaha: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, 1984), 230; George R. Hallberg, Jayne M. Harbaugh, and Patricia M. Witinok, Changes in the Channel Area of the Missouri River in Iowa, 1879-1976 (Iowa City: Iowa Geological Survey, 1979), 10; Missouri Basin States Association, "Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Plan," Proceedings of a Conference held in Des Moines, Iowa, 10-11 August 1983 (Omaha: Missouri Basin States Association, 1983), viii.
5. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Engineer, 4; Sioux City Journal, 27 June 1940.
6. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Engineer, 4; Sioux City Journal, 27 June 1940.
7. Henry C. Hart, The Dark Missouri (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957), 42-45.
8. Robert C. McMath Jr., American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993), 22-26.
9. Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee and the Missouri River States Committee, The Missouri River Basin Development Program (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1952), 22.
10. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Missouri River Stabilization and Navigation Project, Sioux City, Iowa to Mouth, Detailed Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Report (North Kansas City: Kansas City Area Office, Division of Ecological Services, 1980), 2.
11. John Ferrell, Big Dam Era: A Legislative and Institutional History of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program (Omaha: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1993), 177.
12. Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee and the Missouri River States Committee, The Missouri River Basin Development Program, 23; Preview Publications, Preview, 15 September 1939, Vol. 1, No. 16 (Sioux City: Preview Publications), 1, 3.
13. Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee and the Missouri River States Committee, The Missouri River Basin Development Program, 23; Preview Publications, Preview, 15 September 1939, Vol. 1, No. 16 (Sioux City: Preview Publications), 1, 3.
14. Frederick Simpich, "Taming the Outlaw Missouri River," National Geographic 88 (November 1945), 571.
15. Hallberg, Harbaugh, and Witinok, Changes in the Channel Area, 7; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Engineer, 45.
16. Hallberg, Harbaugh, and Witinok, Changes in the Channel Area, 7; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Engineer, 45.
17. Hallberg, Harbaugh, and Witinok, Changes in the Channel Area, 10, 11; Sioux City Journal, 10 April 1943.
18. Hallberg, Harbaugh, and Witinok, Changes in the Channel Area, 10, 11; Sioux City Journal, 10 April 1943.
19. Sioux City Journal, 21 February 1954; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Engineer, 227.
20. Sioux City Journal, 21 February 1954; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Engineer, 227.
21. Gerald Jauron, interview by author, Earling, Iowa, 23 November 1992.
22. Sioux City Journal, 10 April 1943.
23. Hart, The Dark Missouri, 124.
24. Ibid., 125.
25. Sioux City Journal, 5 April 1947, 8 April 1949, 24 April 1950, 19 July 1951, 8 April 1952; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Engineer, 228.
26. Sioux City Journal, 5 April 1947, 8 April 1949, 24 April 1950, 19 July 1951, 8 April 1952; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Engineer, 228.
27. Sioux City Journal, 4 July 1952.
28. Sioux City Journal, 21 February 1954, 31 December 1952.
29. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Engineer, 229.
30. Gerald Jauron, interview.
31. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Engineer, 234.
32. Ibid.; Des Moines Register, 2 October 1955.
33. Ibid.; Des Moines Register, 2 October 1955.
34. Des Moines Register, 1 October 1989.
35. Sioux City Journal, 28 January 1980.
36. Des Moines Register, 1 October 1989.
37. Sioux City Journal, 20 October 1980.