Lewis and Clark: A Missouri River Adventure. On May 14, 1804, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and their group of 40 men, collectively known as the Corps of Discovery, launched their pirogues and keelboat onto the Missouri River at its mouth, some 18 …

Lewis and Clark: Big Dam Era. Historically, the Missouri River's flood pulse resulted from rain and melting snow runoff that would start in March in the upper Great Plains. During some years, spring floods inundated city streets and buildings, made homes uninhabitable and ruined newly planted crops. The Missouri had always flooded.

Jun 24, 2020 · The Missouri River and its mainstem dams and lakes are a source of water for municipal water supply, irrigation, cooling water, and commercial, industrial and domestic uses. Water supply benefits throughout the Missouri River basin are more than $541.6 million annually.

Was the Missouri River the key to this legendary Northwest Passage? Like the French and Spanish explorers who had begun their exploration of this river some 300 years before, President Jefferson hoped so. Lewis and Clark were well on their way to finding this out.

Sep 29, 2017 · The story of the Lewis and Clark expedition begins with the discovery of the Missouri River by early Americans. The second longest river in the country has a list of names that rivals its length.

Sep 29, 2017 · The Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program was one of the most comprehensive plans ever created for the development and management of a basin's water resources.

Lewis and Clark were directed to explore the Missouri River and other rivers during their historic expedition across the Northwest United States 200 years ago. They found a river that had sustained the Native American nations for thousands of years and that was emerging as a main navigation channel for the growing fur trade industry and the ...

As Lewis and Clark traveled down the southern stretch of the Missouri River on their way back to St. Louis in September 1806, they met trappers and fur merchants traveling upstream.

As the population of the Missouri Basin increased, the disposition of the Missouri River had a greater impact. The settlement into the area that began soon after the Lewis and Clark Expedition of the early 1800s, and grew throughout the century.

In the early nineteenth century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and the Corps of Discovery explored the upper reaches of the Missouri River and its tributaries in the Three Forks area. Beaverhead Valley favorably impressed Lewis. At the fork of the Jefferson River, Lewis