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Transcript: Farmers Oppose Wildlife Refuge Along Missouri River
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- February 9, 1996
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to create a 60,000-acre wildlife
refuge along the Missouri river, but many area farmers say they won'
t sell their land, despite flooding problems.
BOB EDWARDS, Host: In 1993, the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers flooded
for months. In the state of Missouri alone, the waters damaged more
than 400,000 acres of farmland. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
is buying some of that land to create a wildlife refuge called `The
Big Muddy'. The refuge would stretch from Kansas City to St. Louis,
and contain five distinct areas where the river would not be contained
by levees. Biologists say that allowing the river to ebb ...