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Apr 26, 2012
Dealing with Change: Recreating Missouri River Backwater Habitat
Authors: K. H. Price and S. L. TownsendAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Critical Transitions in Water and Environmental Resources Management
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District (Corps), has coordinated with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (NGPC), to complete a feasibility study and design for aquatic and terrestrial habitat restoration in Ponca State Park in Dixon County, Nebraska. Tetra Tech, Inc. was retained for environmental analysis, modeling, and civil design. The overall goal of the Ponca State Park Habitat Restoration Project is to restore aquatic and terrestrial habitats that have degraded as a result of hydrologic and sediment transport changes in the adjacent reach of the Missouri River. A series of degraded side channels, backwaters and formerly farmed wetlands are present within Ponca State Park. This project aims to restore these areas into a mosaic of native high-diversity prairies, wet meadows, shallow low-velocity backwaters, and emergent and scrub-shrub wetlands. The creation of several emergent sandbar islands has also been proposed for inclusion in this project.
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K. H. Price
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Tetra Tech, Inc., 1020 SW Taylor St. Portland, OR 97205
S. L. Townsend
Tetra Tech, Inc., 1020 SW Taylor St. Portland, OR 97205
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