Cabinet Mountain Mines and Bad Actors The Cabinet Mountains Wilderness provides refuge for native fish and wildlife and its streams flow with some of the purest… Advocacy Ecosystem Health Pollution Lower 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
West Fork Lee Creek Road Decommissioning and Fish Passage Stream Restoration Wildlife Coexistence Pollution Climate Change Flood and Drought Ecosystem Health Vulnerable Wildlife Bitterroot
East Fork Lolo Creek Restoration On the East Fork Lolo Creek, we installed wood jams into the stream to create complex aquatic habitat and help filter and trap sediment. We also re-naturalized unused forest roads to decrease sources of sediment washing into the stream. Clark Fork Coalition has worked in the Upper Lolo watershed since… Wildlife Coexistence Stream Restoration Pollution Climate Change Ecosystem Health Vulnerable Wildlife Flood and Drought Bitterroot
Lost Horse Creek Monitoring The Clark Fork Coalition is currently working with the irrigation districts on Lost Horse Creek to monitor flows in the ditches to better understand the water balance on the creek. We are also conducting synoptic flow studies on 3 of the major ditches to assess seepage losses. CFC is also… Water Monitoring Water Management Adequate Flow Climate Change Vulnerable Wildlife Ecosystem Health Bitterroot
Lolo Ditch Fish Screen In 2020, CFC completed installation of a fish screen on Lolo Ditch, which, before this project, had trapped 10,000 fish each year, greatly impacting… Stream Restoration Wildlife Coexistence Ecosystem Health Vulnerable Wildlife Bitterroot
Milltown Dam Removal For 100 years, Milltown Dam blocked the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot rivers near Missoula, trapping toxic sediments that washed down from mines in Butte and contaminating local drinking water wells. Now, the dam is out, the mining waste is gone, fish can swim back upstream, and two mighty… Advocacy Stream Restoration Superfund Vigilance Ecosystem Health Recreation Flood and Drought Pollution Bitterroot Middle Clark Fork
