Sakakawea

Bordered by the Yellowstone River to the north, Lake Sakakawea to the east and Montana to the west, McKenzie is larger in land mass than Delaware.

Also that year, lawmakers approved $746,000 to purchase a boat marina at Lake Sakakawea and $100,000 to purchase famous band leader Lawrence Welk’s boyhood home, after its owners found no private buyers.

Boaters have seen the bighorns roaming the cliffs of the Little Missouri River arm on Lake Sakakawea, Wiedmann said.

They spent Memorial Day weekend at Sakakawea State Park near the Garrison Dam and a weekend in June at Fort Lincoln, and went to Minnesota, too, this summer.

The court’s opinion released Thursday centers around a law signed by Gov. Doug Burgum in 2017 that limited state mineral claims under Lake Sakakawea to a smaller area than it had previously claimed.