About this Collection
This is a collection of the Lower Osage River Protection and Enhancement Program (LORPEP) annual reports and other documents associated with or related to LORPEP. The reports have been broken into categories below - Regulatory Documents, Annual Reports, Mussel Monitoring, Mussel Propagation, Aquatic Habitat Restoration, and Other. This is a working library collection, and hyperlinks will be available once the document has been added. If there is a document you would like, but it is not available on this site, contact the Missouri Ecological Services Field Office.
Regulatory Documents License, JES, BO, etc.
- Settlement Agreement Concerning the Relicensing of the Osage Hyrdoelectric Project FERC Project No. 459 (2005)
- Joint Explanatory Statement
- Osage Hydroelectric Protect FERC Operation License
- Osage Hydroelectric Project Lower Osage River Protection and Enhancement Plan License Orders
Annual Reports
- 2014 Annual Report Lower Osage River Protection and Enhancement Program
- 2015 Annual Report Lower Osage River Protection and Enhancement Program
- 2016 Annual Report Lower Osage River Protection and Enhancement Program
- 2017 Annual Report Lower Osage River Protection and Enhancement Program
- 2018 Annual Report Lower Osage River Protection and Enhancement Program
- 2019 Annual Report Lower Osage River Protection and Enhancement Program
- 2020 Annual Report Lower Osage River Protection and Enhancement Program
- 2021 Annual Report Lower Osage River Protection and Enhancement Program
- 2022 Annual Report Lower Osage River Protection and Enhancement Program
- 2023 Annual Report Lower Osage River Protection and Enhancement Program
- 2024 Annual Report Lower Osage River Protection and Enhancement Program
Mussel Monitoring
- Monitoring of Freshwater Mussels in the Lower Osage River: Year 1 (2014)
- 2015 Annual Report - Monitoring of Freshwater Mussels in the Lower Osage River
- 2016 Annual Report - Monitoring of Freshwater Mussels in the Lower Osage River
- 2017 Annual Report - Monitoring of Freshwater Mussels in the Lower Osage River
- 2018 Annual Report - Monitoring of Freshwater Mussels in the Lower Osage River
- 2020 Annual Report - Monitoring of Freshwater Mussels in the Lower Osage River
- Long-term Monitoring of Freshwater Mussels in the Lower Osage River, Missouri: A Summary of the First Five Years of Sampling: 2014-2018 (2020)
- 2021 Progress Memo Freshwater Mussel Monitoring in the Lower Osage River
- 2022 Progress Memo Freshwater Mussel Monitoring in the Lower Osage River
- 2023 Progress Memo Freshwater Mussel Monitoring in the Lower Osage River
- 2024 Progress Memo Freshwater Mussel Monitoring in the Lower Osage River
- The Effects of a Low Flow Deviation on Freshwater Mussel Beds in the Osage River Below Bagnell Dam, Missouri (2024)
Mussel Propagation and Augmentation/Re-Introduction
- 2020 Progress Report - Monitoring of Pink Mucket Released in the Lower Osage River
- Plan for Controlled Propagation and Release of the Scaleshell (Potamilus leptodon) into the Lower Osage River, Missouri (2024)
- A study plan for comparing genetic diversity between wild and artificially propagated Pink Muckets (Lampsilis abrupta) in the Lower Osage River, Missouri (2024)