It did so by notching dikes to increase water flow, keeping more water in reservoirs and reopening historic chutes, allowing the river to meander and erode banks.įarmers, businesses and other landowners say that unconstitutionally deprived them of their land. Army Corps of Engineers responsible for recurrent flooding since 2007, three years after it changed how it manages the Missouri River’s flow to better protect the habitat of endangered fish and birds. But the appeals court went even further in its decision last Friday, saying that the government must also pay them for crops, farm equipment and buildings lost to the flooding and finding the government contributed to the devastating flood of 2011.Ĭourts have found the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower court’s 2020 ruling that the federal government must pay for the landowners’ loss of value to the land.
government may have to pay tens of millions of dollars - or more - to landowners along the Missouri River after a court ruled it worsened flooding there since 2007 that killed crops and wrecked homes and businesses. Initially James Madison University, last year’s FCS runner-up, said it would pursue that avenue, but Friday said they had suspended all football activities and would hope for a season in the spring.Ĭopyright 2020 KVLY. The Colonial Athletic Association announced last month it would not hold conference competition in the fall but football schools were allowed to seek independent scheduling opportunities. We already have begun actively engaging our fellow FCS conferences and the NCAA to join us then for what will be a unique opportunity to return to competition and compete for an FCS championship.”
“We will now shift our attention to doing everything within our power to provide our football student-athletes and coaches with a conference schedule and a championship opportunity in the spring. “This is the right decision for our member institutions, even though we realize how disappointing it will be for all who represent and care about Big Sky football,” Commissioner Tom Wistrcill said. “Especially for our student-athletes around the conference.”īoth the Big Sky Conference and the Pioneer Football League announced the postponement of a fall football season earlier Friday, which eliminated any hope of a postseason tournament.Įarlier in the week the NCAA put out requirements for fall sports stating 50% of eligible teams must have a season in order to hold any postseason competition. “I think the decision that was in front of us was the potential of a potential playoff in the spring versus not in the fall and that seemed like a fairly easy decision in that regard,” Chaves said. Chaves said it was almost unanimous a chance at a postseason and a National Championship was on everyone’s list. Athletics Director Bill Chaves said all 11 MVFC programs spoke with their respective football teams Thursday to get a feedback from what the players wanted to get out of a season. The wait for the University of North Dakota to play it’s first game as a member of the MVFC will continue. “So that will be a priority this week and trying to get those game scheduled for the fall.”
“We have had some good conversations with some schools about playing a non-conference schedule and I think now that we’re starting to see more definition and some more clarity with the other conferences it’ll be easy to move forward with some scheduling,” Larsen said. North Dakota State Director of Athletics Matt Larsen is hopeful the Bison will be able to play some non-conference games this fall.
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