Images

A South Dakota School of Mines and Technology student working for the USGS South Dakota Water Science Center installed a trail camera at the Lodge site in the fall of 2013 to take time-lapse images of shoreline erosion along the Missouri River near the town of Lower Brule on the Lower Brule Reservation.

A South Dakota School of Mines and Technology student working for the USGS South Dakota Water Science Center installed a trail camera in the fall of 2013 on a pole at the Playground site to take time-lapse images of shoreline erosion along the Missouri River near the town of Lower Brule on the Lower Brule Reservation.

This is the Little Missouri River near Watford City, North Dakota.  At the time, streamflow was 5,300 cubic feet per second.

This is the Little Missouri River near Watford City, North Dakota.  At the time, streamflow was 5,300 cubic feet per second.

This is the Snowden Lift Bridge over the Missouri River at Nohly, Montana.

This is the Snowden Lift Bridge over the Missouri River at Nohly, Montana.

Storm clouds over the Little Muddy River below Cow Creek near Williston, North Dakota, streamgage. 

This is the Little Muddy River below Cow Creek near Williston, North Dakota.  Streamflow at the time was 14.6 cubic feet per second.

Little Muddy River below Cow Creek near Williston, North Dakota, streamflow 14.6 cubic feet per second.

A slough in Burleigh County, North Dakota, near Apple Creek.

National Park Service personnel, use the Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) satellite navigation data collection handheld equipment while Ryan Thompson (USGS) explains their use, assisted by USGS students Vicki Prautzsch and Adonnis Martinez, during a 1-day field demonstration.

U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Technician, Joel Petersen, has a buffalo audience while performing an indirect streamflow measurement survey at Beaver Creek near Pringle on August, 15, 2013.

Localized flooding on Hidewood Creek near Estelline, SD, on June 23, 2013. Severe storms during June 21-22, 2013, in eastern South Dakota resulted in high flows in several streams across the area. The peak discharge on Hidewood Creek (streamgage 06479640) from this storm event was about 4,200 cubic feet per second.

East facing view of glory hole.

East facing partial view of gates, spillway, and fish hatchery ponds.

Downstream view of Sheyenne River and fish hatchery ponds.

Northeast facing view of gates and spillway.

U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Technician, Kammy Durham, provides training on use of a flow meter to Crow Creek Sioux Tribe 106 Program staff.  

Heavy waterfowl and shorebird usage at Miller Pond. A reconnaissance-level study of selected wetlands on and near the Lower Brule Indian Reservation in South Dakota was completed in 2012-13 by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe using ground surveys and water-quality analyses.

View of wetland vegetation (distant) and food plot (right) at Dorman Slough. A reconnaissance-level study of selected wetlands on and near the Lower Brule Indian Reservation in South Dakota was completed in 2012-13 by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe using ground surveys and water-quality analyses.

Downstream view of Spearfish Creek at Spearfish, SD.