The Missouri River: A Long History, A Hopeful Future
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American Rivers, as a primary advocate, helped secure the Congressional creation of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Missouri River Recovery Program, which has delisted the interior least tern and is completing levee-setbacks across the 166,750-acre floodplain restoration project approved under the Bank Stabilization and Navigation Project Fish & Wildlife Mitigation Project.
Over halfway remains to complete the full 166,750 acres of Missouri River floodplains approved for acquisition and restoration.
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