Freshwater Mussels of the Missouri National Recreational River below Gavins Point Dam, South Dakota and Nebraska

Authors

Keith Perkins III, University of Sioux Falls
Douglas C. Backlund, South Dakota Dept. of Game, Fish and Parks

Date of this Version

2000

Comments

Published in SD GFP Report 2000-1 (2000) 1-24

Abstract

In 1999 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contracted with the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks to conduct a presence/absence survey of the freshwater mussels of the Missouri National Recreational River below Gavins Point Dam, South Dakota and Nebraska. Subsequently, S.D. Department of Game, Fish and Parks contracted Keith Perkins III, a malacological expert at the University of Sioux Falls, to take charge of the inventory with the assistance of Doug Backlund, South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks, Pierre, S.D.