YANKTON, S.D. (KTIV) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is getting ready to do some work to control vegetation on sandbars on the Missouri River in South Dakota this month.

The Corps will spray herbicide on sandbars between Yankton and Vermillion, in Lewis and Clark Lake between South Dakota and Nebraska, and up to Pickstown, South Dakota.

The goal is to keep the sandbars usable as a nesting habitat for a threatened bird species, the piping plover, as well as to control an invasive species of reed.

The Corps says it will start spraying the sandbars using helicopters after Labor Day.

They’re hoping to do most of it during the week, but some weekend spraying may occur due to weather conditions.

The Corps says its current vegetation removal operations began in 2012, and will continue eac

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