Protect the Best

At the Coalition, we keep tabs on projects that could potentially impact clean water in the Clark Fork basin. From lingering pollution problems, to impacts from new projects, to harms caused by nonnative species, we work with diverse partners to protect what matters most in our watershed.

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Protecting and Restoring Grant Creek

Right now, a brief moment of opportunity exists to protect and restore Grant Creek for fish, wildlife, and the people of the Missoula valley. Learn more about our Restore Grant Creek Campaign and how you can help care for and revive this “forgotten wilderness stream.”

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Clean Smurfit Now

Over a dozen years after the Smurfit-Stone pulp and paper mill ceased operations, the 3,200-acre industrial site continues to leach toxic chemicals into the aquifer and the Clark Fork River. It’s time to clean it up.

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Rock Creek and Montanore Mines

Streams and lakes in wilderness areas deserve protection from the potential impacts from mining. For over a decade, the Clark Fork Coalition has been involved in legal challenges to stop the Rock Creek Mine and Montanore Mine, which would tunnel beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness Area in the lower Clark Fork region.

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Exempt Wells

Managing water wisely ensures there’s enough of the good stuff to go around for households, agricultural operators, anglers and recreationists. But a legal loophole stands to threaten balanced water use.

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Aquatic Invasive Species

The Clark Fork Coalition and other watershed groups are working alongside agencies to monitor the presence of aquatic invaders and to help stop their spread

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Missoula Water

Missoula’s drinking water utility is finally in public ownership after being privately held for over a century. At the Coalition, we worked to make public ownership a reality, and we’re eager to see Missoula’s drinking water managed in a transparent way that ensures protection of our water resources.

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Copper Cliffs Mine

The Blackfoot River valley has had its share of scares from mining over the past century. We’re keeping tabs on a company engaged in an exploratory process for a mine at the headwaters of Union Creek above the Potomac Valley.

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Clean Water

Since 1972 the landmark Clean Water Act has protected clean water resources and dramatically improved water quality in communities across the country, protecting them from pollution and toxic dumping. Now this bedrock environmental law is threatened as never before, with proposed debilitating budget cuts and threats to delegitimize the CWA itself.

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