SCOUTING YESTERDAY | 25 years of the sturgeon — A living fossil’s return to South Dakota
This week in South Dakota history: July 4-10
An ancient, endangered fish was released into South Dakota waters thanks to a quiet but groundbreaking effort at a Yankton hatchery a quarter century ago this week.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released 450 juvenile and eight adult pallid sturgeon into the Missouri River on July 5, 2000, marking a critical milestone in the fight to save the prehistoric species from extinction.
