People To Save The Sheyenne intend:

• To preserve and protect the Sheyenne River from damaging water projects, preventing low water quality, flooding and erosion to river banks.

• To present reasons for their concern.

• To expose threats to the river, groundwater, natural habitat along its banks.

• To present the facts with links to published agency and organization reports, investigative findings and information about the outlets. This information includes the water quality and water quantity information, and potential damages that may result to farmers, communities and habitat along the Sheyenne River.

• To inform that others are opposed to these outlet proposals and drainage practices, and they are cited in the links of these web pages.

• To propose helpful solutions.

Valley City, Cooperstown, Fort Ransom, Lisbon, Kathryn -www.Hellovalley.com

Forum Article 5-20-2001 Sheyenne Valley Tourism

Natural Areas of North Dakota
Mirror Pool Wildlife Management Area http://www.npsc.nbs.gov/resource/othrdata/natareas/mirror.htm

Sheyenne Valley Chapter of The North Country Trail http://www.northcountrytrail.org/srv/

Attracting Bluebirds and Other Cavity-Nesting Birds To Your Area-Bluebirds, Wood Ducks and Tree Swallows http://www.npsc.nbs.gov/resource/1999/bluebird/bluebird.htm

Sheyenne National Grasslands, a rare ecosystem.420 Information/North Country Trail/Maps http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/dakotaprairie/sheyenne.htm

Fort Ransom State Park, North Dakota http://birding.about.com/hobbies/birding/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ndparks.com%2FParks%2FFRSP.htm

North Dakota Horizons: Roads Less Traveled-Scenic Byway and Backway http://www.ndhorizons.com/default.cfm?page=arc_fall00

Dakota Birding: in the Sheyenne River Valley http://www.dakotabirding.com

ND Birding/Tourism Info: FatBirder.com http://www.fatbirder.com/links_geo/america_united_states/north_dakota.html

enature.com: Bird species that can be found in this local habitat. http://www.enature.com/localguide/localguide_standard_display.asp?curGroupID=1&zipcode=58072

Freshwater Mussels of the Great Plains

Freshwater mussels are the most imperiled large group of organisms in North America.

Basic biology, life history, fish hosts, effects of contaminants on early life stages, water quality parameters, microhabitat needs, distribution data, and demographic and abundance information are poorly known for these species. Molecular genetics and soft anatomy studies of particularly the species complexes are needed to clarify which species are truly at risk. Some wide-ranging species may represent multiple narrow endemics that are in desperate need of protection. (Recent genetic studies with fishes have shown that the freshwater fish fauna of the southeastern United States is much more diverse than taxonomists previously thought.)

Freshwater Mussels

Elktoe mussel - Alasmidonta marginata
Mussel - Plethobasus cyphyus
Snuffbox mussel - Epioblasma triquetra
Pink pigtoe mussel - Pleurobema rubrum
Mussel - Cumberlandia monodonta

Clamor Over Clams -Freshwater Clams in the Sheyenne River http://www.npsc.nbs.gov/resource/othrdata/ndclam/ndclam.htm

Great Plains Landscapes of Biological Significance: Sheyenne Delta http://es.epa.gov/oeca/ofa/feb1999c.html

H. R. Morgan State Nature Preserve: captures the secluded meeting of the Sheyenne River and Sheyenne Sandhills in its full spectrum of plant and animal life. http://www.state.nd.us/ndparks/Acrobat/hrmorganbrochure.pdf

Sheyenne River Invertebrate Assessment Project http://community.vcsu.edu/facultypages/andre_delorme/Academic_Website/SRIAP/NSriap.html#Sheyenne River Invertebrate Assessment Project

Aquatic Mussels of North Dakota http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/invert/mollusks/mollusks.htm

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's List of High Priority Species or Groups in the Great
Plains and Their Management Needs http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/nebraska/gpng/usfwslist.html

The status, distribution, abundance, and viability of populations of these fishes are not known with sufficient accuracy to develop effective conservation plans for them. (US Fish & Wildlife)

Although they vary considerably in their water quality requirements, all are found in streams that are vulnerable to fluctuation in flows, high silt loads, and pollution. Very few systematic, comprehensive surveys of the fish populations in the streams of the Great Plains have be conducted, so accurate historical records are spotty, at best. Sampling procedures developed for use in other areas are often inappropriate for these waters. Extensive, systematic surveys and population viability analyses are needed to provide bases for species and habitat conservation plans.