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With help from your Friends . . .
Friends of Lake Sakakawea, a 501(c)6 organization:
* Worked with the Corps of Engineers and ND Game & Fish to bring $7 million worth of access improvements (ramps, parking lots), fish cleaning stations and comfort stations to Lake Sakakawea over the past eight years.
* Helped in the battle to maintain water supplies for towns along the lake where water intakes were left high and dry by plunging lake levels;
* Worked hard to protect our premiere fishery with such events as curtailing the release of water and the installation of gates on the intake at the Garrison Dam to avoid removing cold water from the lake – water needed for salmon and rainbow smelt, a vital forage for all our sport fish;
* Represented its members at the table during federal reviews and plans for the Missouri River's future and aggressively battled to continue to make recreation a top priority.
* Fought for better roads to Lake Sakakawea at the state legislature by increasing funding for recreational roads. Later paid for some expenses associated with stakeholders applying for funding.
* Supported a new low-water marina at Fort Stevenson State Park and continue to push for more new marinas;
* Assisted in the battle against invasive weeds and Aquatic Nuisance Species.
* Worked directly with top brass at the Corps of Engineers on projects like curtailing the navigation season downstream and
* Helped develop a new master plan for the reservoirs on the Missouri.
* And MOST IMPORTANTLY, persisted when many others gave up.
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