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With help from your Friends . . .
Friends of Lake Sakakawea, a 501(c)6 organization:
* Worked for 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;
* 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;
* Lobbied for federal and state funds to improve boat ramps to allow access to the lake even at historic low water levels;
* 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 that suck moisture out of newly-exposed shoreline; and worked with county weed boards and cabin sites to control their weeds.
* 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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