Grant Creek Restoration Grant Creek Watershed Restoration Plan As part of our 2024 efforts, we conducted two demonstration shoreline plantings at the Highlander Brewing and Hilton Hotel, showcasing best practices for… Stream Restoration Water Monitoring Adequate Flow Ecosystem Health Growth and Sprawl Middle Clark Fork
River Ambassadors During the summer, Missoula River Ambassadors can be spotted at busy river access sites and community events, on popular day-float stretches, and immersed in conservation and restoration projects dotting Missoula’s urban river corridor. This team of community ambassadors guides the ever-growing river-recreation culture toward stewardship. During peak river season from… Community Programs Research Ecosystem Health Recreation Middle Clark Fork
Cleaning up the Smurfit-Stone Mill Site near Frenchtown, MT The Smurfit-Stone pulp mill operated on the banks of the Clark Fork River near Frenchtown from 1957 to 2010, discharging enormous amounts of wastewater into the river. More than a decade after the mill closed, the 3,200-acre industrial site is still leaching harmful chemicals into the river and our aquifer. Advocacy Superfund Vigilance Research Education Community Programs Pollution Flood and Drought Ecosystem Health Middle Clark Fork
Cabinet Mountains Mining Projects Background The Cabinet Mountains Wilderness provides refuge for native fish and wildlife and its streams flow with some of the purest waters… Advocacy Ecosystem Health Pollution Lower Clark Fork
In-stream Sediment Sampling 2022 In partnership with Fish, Wildlife & Parks, Natural Resources Damage Program, and the University of Montana – Western, we measured the amount of sediment in streams along several reaches of the Upper Clark Fork River. Students collected over 70 in-stream sediment samples to see if sediment levels affect trout… Superfund Vigilance Research Education Pollution Upper Clark Fork
Thermal Mapping of the Upper Clark Professor Raja Nagisetty and environmental engineering graduate student Meggie Olsen at Montana Tech, along with several other collaborators, completed a series of drone flights on the upper Clark Fork River to study thermal refugia habitat. Professor Raja and his team documented an unremediated… Superfund Vigilance Education Research Climate Change Ecosystem Health Pollution Upper Clark Fork
Assessments of Geomorphology and Macroinvertebrate Diversity The CFC has coordinated data collection efforts with Professor Rob Thomas at UM Western annually since 2019. Over that period, Rob’s students have focused on a variety of studies in the UCF OU from assessments of geomorphology and macroinvertebrate diversity on both remediated and unremedied phases, to a study examining… Superfund Vigilance Research Education Pollution Ecosystem Health Upper Clark Fork
Slickens Assessments in the Upper Clark Fork The CFC coordinated with Fish, Wildlife & Parks to complete a hazard assessment of the remaining slickens in Reach A of the Upper Clark Fork Superfund Operable Unit. In the summer of 2019, over 170 individual slickens were assessed and mapped for hazards related to surface runoff and channel avulsion… Superfund Vigilance Research Pollution Ecosystem Health Upper Clark Fork
Stonewall Creek We permanently acquired 5 cfs of water rights that reconnect Stonewall Creek to the Blackfoot River year round. The creek supports native westslope cutthroat and brown trout. Water Management Water Monitoring Wildlife Coexistence Adequate Flow Climate Change Flood and Drought Ecosystem Health Vulnerable Wildlife Blackfoot
Keep Cool Creek We permanently acquired 5 cfs of water rights that reconnect Keep Cool Creek to the Blackfoot River year round. Water Management Water Monitoring Wildlife Coexistence Adequate Flow Climate Change Flood and Drought Ecosystem Health Vulnerable Wildlife Blackfoot
Poorman Creek We permanently acquired 18 cfs of water rights that reconnect Poorman Creek to the Blackfoot River year round. Water Management Water Monitoring Wildlife Coexistence Adequate Flow Climate Change Flood and Drought Blackfoot
West Fork Lee Creek Road Decommissioning and Fish Passage Stream Restoration Wildlife Coexistence Pollution Climate Change Flood and Drought Ecosystem Health Vulnerable Wildlife Bitterroot
