The Riverdale Boat Club has adopted a project of assistance to the growing number of small craft operators who take their vacations sailing up and down the Missouri River. The chief task involved is [...]Read More... from On This Day | Before[...]
Tag: Lake Sakakawea
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On This Day | Dam Good for Population
During the peak of construction in 1954 Riverdale’s population reached approximately 4000 persons. It has been announced that the Government will have a need for the facilities of Riverdale until the construction work is [...]Read More... from On This Day | Dam[...]
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On This Day | The Brains Behind Operating Reservoir and Other Dam News
Intelligent planning and scheduling of water releases to accomplish these results requires long-range planning as well as day-by-day decisions on details of operations. Because of the voluminous mass of data which go into these [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | The Dam Money Comes With a Cap
Upon hearing of the limit being placed on the height of the dam, North Dakota’s water commission objected stating that the state’s entire water conservation program will be in danger should the amendment be [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | Tragedy on the Big Lake
Tragedy struck three Minot homes Monday when three men were drowned in the Snake Creek arm of the Garrison Reservoir. High winds up to 60 miles per hr. which hit the area swept up [...]Read More... from On This Day | Tragedy[...]
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On This Day | Before the Reservoir
At the Garrison reservoir preliminary reconnaissance of the area was completed but did not include the Fort Berthold Indian lands. More than 50 sites of Indian villages have been found and the results indicate [...]Read More... from On This Day | Before[...]
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On This Day | Depression Days
I have had the pleasure of visiting several of the smaller cities in northwestern North Dakota during the past few days, and I was impressed with the manner in which our neighbors are going [...]Read More... from On This Day | Depression[...]
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On This Day | Reservoir Requires Lots of Land
The Garrison reservoir will need approximately 450,000 acres of land before the project is completed -- to be bough from 3,300 land owners, army engineers state . . . about 159,000 acres within limits [...]Read More... from On This Day | Reservoir[...]
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What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea is Wrong?
In the heart of North Dakota, members of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes gathered to challenge one of America’s most enduring legends. Sacagawea, they said, wasn’t the quiet guide of textbook fame—but a Hidatsa woman whose story has been distorted and[...]
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Watch: Salmon Fishing Preview 2025 on Lake Sakakawea
The salmon fishery on Lake Sakakawea is shaping up for a promising season, thanks to healthy populations of rainbow smelt and cisco—the primary forage for salmon. While water levels peaked lower this summer than in recent years, the conditions have been strong[...]
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On This Day | Splitting the Nation
Attempts to establish a ferry service at the bridge site have failed. Construction of roads under the road relocation program has progressed slowly because of the constant rain. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Splitting the Nation
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On This Day | Snakes in the Lakes
On the front page in a recent issue, the McClean County Independent at Garrison reports that rattlesnakes have again been sighted in an area sixteen miles southwest of that city, near the Reservoir. Picknickers, [...]Read More... from On This Day | Snakes[...]
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On This Day | Lakeside Concession Anyone
The demand for this type of business has mounted with increased recreational use of the reservoir and will continue until the rising waterline justifies installation of permanent commercial facilities, the engineers said. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Lakeside Concession Anyone
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McFeely: Will Burgum allow us to tell the ‘negative’ story of Garrison Dam?
Garrison Dam is often hailed as a symbol of American ingenuity—an engineering feat that tamed the Missouri River and created Lake Sakakawea. But that story isn’t complete without the one beneath the waterline: the forced displacement of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara[...]
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On This Day | Why We Tamed the Mighty Missouri
4. The great reservoirs not only will hold back the floods, but they will hold enough water so that a minimum stream depth for navigation can be preserved in dry periods. This will afford [...]Read More... from On This Day | Why[...]
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On This Day | Taming the Mighty Missouri
These are the reservoirs to be created by the dams with which man will at last tame, harness and use the mighty Missouri river for a magnificent new source of power, irrigation and flood [...]Read More... from On This Day | Taming[...]