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Article: Restored flood plains can reduce flooding and runoff, save wildlife.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 6, 2003
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Byline: Sara Shipley
LISBON BOTTOM, Mo. _ Cradled in a rare side channel of the Missouri River, a turtle poked its head through water as rich and brown as homemade broth. A great blue heron stalked its prey in calm pools nearby, and a quail whistled from a forest of young cottonwood trees.
Tom Bell stepped from an aluminum boat onto a rump of land cross-hatched with deer and turkey tracks and wondered if Lewis and Clark floated past something like this on their westward journey 200 years ago.
"This is the best place I know of to see what the river used to look like," said Bell, squinting against the sun. "It's not the same as it used to be, but ...