Missouri River images - Joel Sartore

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This was once the place where Lewis and Clark first saw a grizzly bear but it is now a corn field. More than 100 years ago the pioneers eradicated the grizzly bear to create farmland.

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This was once the place where Lewis and Clark first saw a grizzly bear but it is now a corn field. More than 100 years ago the pioneers eradicated the grizzly bear to create farmland.

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This was once the place where Lewis and Clark first saw a grizzly bear but it is now a corn field. More than 100 years ago the pioneers eradicated the grizzly bear to create farmland.

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This was once the place where Lewis and Clark first saw a grizzly bear but it is now a corn field. More than 100 years ago the pioneers eradicated the grizzly bear to create farmland.

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This was once the place where Lewis and Clark first saw a grizzly bear but it is now a corn field. More than 100 years ago the pioneers eradicated the grizzly bear to create farmland.

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This was once the place where Lewis and Clark first saw a grizzly bear but it is now a corn field. More than 100 years ago the pioneers eradicated the grizzly bear to create farmland.

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This was once the place where Lewis and Clark first saw a grizzly bear but it is now a corn field. More than 100 years ago the pioneers eradicated the grizzly bear to create farmland.

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This was once the place where Lewis and Clark first saw a grizzly bear, but it is now a corn field. More than 100 years ago the pioneers eradicated the grizzly bear to create farmland.

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This was once the place where Lewis and Clark first saw a grizzly bear, but it is now a corn field. More than 100 years ago the pioneers eradicated the grizzly bear to create farmland.

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This was once the place where Lewis and Clark first saw a grizzly bear but it is now a corn field. More than 100 years ago the pioneers eradicated the grizzly bear to create farmland.

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This was once the place where Lewis and Clark first saw a grizzly bear but it is now a corn field. More than 100 years ago the pioneers eradicated the grizzly bear to create farmland.

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This was once the place where Lewis and Clark first saw a grizzly bear but it is now a corn field. More than 100 years ago the pioneers eradicated the grizzly bear to create farmland.

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This was once the place where Lewis and Clark first saw a grizzly bear but it is now a corn field. More than 100 years ago the pioneers eradicated the grizzly bear to create farmland.

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Lewis and Clark spotted their first grizzly bear at the place where the Heart River meets the Missouri River near Bismarck, ND. Today it serves as a corn field.

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A critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) is photographed getting measured by a fish crew with the Missouri Dept. of Conservation. This crew is surveying fish populations in the Missouri River near Atchinson, Kansas.

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A rare sicklefin chub (Macrhybopsis meeki) from the Missouri River near Atchinson, Kansas. The fish was captured and released during a survey done by the Missouri Department of Conservation.

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A rare sicklefin chub (Macrhybopsis meeki) from the Missouri River near Atchinson, KS. The fish was captured and released during a survey done by the Missouri Department of Conservation.

A vulnerable, juvenile shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) from the Missouri River near Atchinson, Kansas. The fish was captured and released during a survey done by the Missouri Department of Conservation.

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A vulnerable, juvenile shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) from the Missouri River near Atchinson, Kansas. The fish was captured and released during a survey done by the Missouri Department of Conservation.