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Another Good Season At DeSoto Bend; Refuge Closes Thursday Night
Favorite Fishing Spot...is abandoned along DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge lake as season draws to a close.
New Beach Area
New Beach Area...Swimmers or sunbathers will find a new 1,000-foot sandy beach ready for them this summer at DeSoto Bend National Wildlife Refuge west of Missouri Valley. The swimming area has been relocated to the inside of the bend southeast of…
New Boat Launching
New Boat Launching...facilities are located at the south end of the lake. The concrete, six-lane ramp with docks is inspected by manager Dybsetter. This facility replaces a temporary unit to the north which has been closed. Swimming is no longer…
DeSoto Bend Tim-Table Advanced 2 years; Engineers To Be Finished in 1960
Now Ice Bound...this section of the Missouri River will become a part of the DeSoto Bend Lake after a new river channel is cut by Army Engineers. Timbered area to right will become a wildlife refuge.
Federal Plans Call For A Bigger Ox Bow Lake; Add 6,000 Acres
Looking North...across the Ox Bow Lake proposal. Dotted line at lower left indicates the approximate course the Missouri River channel would take. Land area in center would become wildlife refuge. Sealed off river loop would become a lake.
Outdoor Recreation: A National Resource
River Access Area . . . is Wilson Island, near DeSoto Bend, offers Missouri River boat ramps, parking facilities and camping pads adjacent to the roads (white lines) winding through the trees.
Outdoor Recreation: A National Resource
The Small Clearing . . . in the woods (center) along the Missouri River just above the Iowa Power and Light Co. generating plant is part of the 20 acres of Long's Landing, newest river access area built and keyed to the Lewis and Clark Trail.
Model steamship Iowa man's legacy
Opening A Hatch...on the three-foot scale model of the steamship Bertrand is John Carrier, park service employee at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge near Missouri Valley. The steamer model, which the Bertrand museum just purchased for $300, was…
A Watery Grave
A Watery Grave...is again the resting place of the Steamboat Bertrand. Work on the artifacts from the ship will be increasing this summer at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. A new staff member will arrive at DeSoto Monday to work with preservation…
Plans For Bertrand Museum Revived, Now On Even Keel
Examining Sleigh Bells...recovered from the cargo of the sunken steamboat Bertrand are Jim Salyer of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Sen. John Culver, D-Iowa. They and other interested parties met Friday in DeSoto Bend to plan the…
She Keeps Bertrand Artifacts In Order; Harlan Native Maia Sornson
Showing Old Bottles...recovered from the sunken steamship Bertrand at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is Maia Sornson, curator of the Bertrand artifacts museum. Miss Sornson has been cataloging the millions of items recovered from the wreckage and…
Team Of Divers Checks Deterioration Of Bertrand
Scuba Divers...bubble near the surface of the pond covering the sunken steamboatd Bertrand at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. Marker at left informs visitors of the century-old boat's remains. The three-man scuba diving team is determining how…
Team Of Divers Checks Deterioration Of Bertrand
A Three-man Scuba Diving Team...is puncturing the hull of the sunken steamboat Bertrand at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge near Missouri Valley. What they find may determine how best to preserve the century-old hulk.
Sunken Bertrand May Deteriorate
These Artifacts...have attracted nearly 500,000 people since the Bertrand was discovered about four years ago.
Sunken Bertrand May Deteriorate
At The Site...where the steamship Bertrand rests in the gloomy deep, Public Use Specialist Steve Frick surveys ropes marking the outline of the hull. Frick said officials are worried that the Bertrand is deteriorating after being resubmerged for…
Bertrand Project Eyed in '78
Don Bloom...Woodbine Twiner editor, looks at a restored black powder keg from the Bertrand. Lab Director Ronald Switzer of the DeSoto Refuge showed about 50 persons around his lab Friday during the unveiling of development plans for the refuge.
Forgotten Hulk May Become Important Midwest Attraction
DeSoto Refuge Manager Jim Salyer...explains the proposed Bertrand Visitor Center during the unveiling of development plans for the National Wildlife Refuge which includes the 1865 steamship Bertrand. He points to a model of the Bertrand Cargo…
The Bertrand Depicted In New Sketch
Two years of research...and hundreds of field drawings have resulted in this artist's version of what the Missouri steamboat Bertrand looked like in 1864.