Articles written by James Macpherson Associated Press Writer B I Smarck

JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press Writer B I SMARCK, N.D.

Recreational boaters are back and the fish are biting in the u p p e r r e a c h e s o f t h e Mi s s o u r i Ri ve r sys t em. Hundreds of miles downstream, fully laden barges are again plying the Big Muddy without worry of hitting bottom. Low river levels caused by a decade of dry conditions in the Missouri River basin have been reversed by rains and robust snow runoff, and the warring over water among downstream and upstream states has ebbed until the next drought hits. Now, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages...