Bill Lambrecht – Big Muddy Blues : True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark’s Missouri River

Publisher’s Weekly:

While the Missouri is not as muddy as it was before it was dammed, straightened, channelized and turned into what environmentalists call the world’s biggest barge ditch, the political wranglings surrounding it are murky indeed. Journalist Lambrecht (Dinner at the New Gene Cafe) deftly untangles the confrontation between an alliance of farmers, barge operators and real estate developers who want the river managed for industrial convenience, and environmentalists and recreation and tourist interests who want to restore some of its meanderings and seasonal flows and revive floodplain ecosystems. The controversy also pits the Army Corps of Engineers, custodian of dams and canals, against the Fish and Wildlife Service, guardian of endangered species. Meanwhile, the upriver Dakotans and downriver Missourians squabble over divvying up the river’s waters.

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