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by Karl Wirsing
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by Karl Wirsing
October 17, 2002
The effects of the drought on farming and ranching are well documented and financially sobering, but the severe water shortage has also endangered a less advertised aspect of life: recreation.As South Dakota's rain-starved conditions continue to emaciate the state's Missouri River reservoirs, boat ramps, which provide the primary viable access for water craft, have found themselves increasingly stranded in the air, dry and unserviceable.Issues of water sports are necessarily secondary to issues of crop and livestock damage, yet the withering of commercial watering holes, too, promises to etch a lasting impression on the state's recreational economy. Beached boat ramps now litter parks and other access routes, and the likelihood that the weather reverses its arid trend and naturally reconciles this situation is hardly a safe gamble.
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By Karl Wirsing
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