Monthly Archives: July 2012

Just One of the Guys

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Hallie Ladd

For more than a week in early June, USGS telemetry tracking boats from Missouri joined the Montana Wildlife Fish and Parks and the USGS Fort Peck Field Office as they raced up and down the Yellowstone River trying to keep … Continue reading →

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On the Right Path

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Kimberly Chojnacki

“We have a boy, code 52, on his way to Intake Dam.  We’ve tracked him all day through bends and side channels.  He is a couple of miles away from the Dam.  Can you spare a crew to track him … Continue reading →

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Headed North

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Kimberly Chojnacki

With telemetered female pallid sturgeon done spawning in the Lower Missouri River, the USGS tracking crews from Missouri packed up their equipment at the beginning of June and headed north to Montana and the Yellowstone River.  It was a two … Continue reading →

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How to Drink From a Fire Hose

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Kimberly Chojnacki

Since 2009, larval sampling efforts have focused on capturing newly hatched and drifting larvae immediately downstream of a suspected pallid sturgeon spawning site (see previous posts “Searching for a needle in a haystack” and “Panning for biological gold”).  In 2012 … Continue reading →

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