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Project Date: 2009 - present
Partners: FWP, UFWS, FVTU, MTU
Involvement: Funding and volunteers
The Flathead Valley Chapter of TU and MTU have been organizing volunteers to assist with lake trout gill netting on Swan Lake since 2009. WSCTU contributes volunteers and funds to this project [ READ MORE... ]
Project Date: 2009
Partners: Trout Unlimited
Involvement: Funding assistance
Mining reclamation project.
St Louis Creek is located approximately 20 miles up Ninemile Creek from the Clark Fork River. The mine site was operated in the 1950s and resulted in significant environmental effects. [ READ MORE... ]
Project Date: 2011
Fish habitat restoration at Six Mile Creek involved fish passage enhancement and the addition of a fish screen.
Sixmile Creek is an important tributary to the Clark Fork River and has potential to increase recruitment to the Clark Fork fishery. As part of Lolo National Forest [ READ MORE... ]
Project Date: Summer 2015
Partners: Big Blackfoot Chapter of Trout Unlimited, UM
Involvement: Funding assistance and volunteers
WSCTU is partnering with BBCTU for a native trout restoration project at Shanley Creek, a tributary to Cottonwood Creek in the Blackfood Watershed. This is one of [ READ MORE... ]
Project Date: 2012 (purchase); 2013 - ongoing (restoration)
Partners: FVLT
Involvement: Purchase assistance, restpration funding, volunteer work
December 2012, FVLT purchased 201 acres at the confluence of Rock Creek and the Clark Fork River, with support from WSCTU and other agencies and [ READ MORE... ]
Project Date: 2015-2016
Partners: MT Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Future Fisheries Improvement Program, WSCTU, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Located right near Missoula, Montana, the Hughes-Fredline ditch is one of the few unscreened diversions on Rattlesnake Creek.
Each year, it is known to [ READ MORE... ]
Project Date: 2014
Partners: Trout Unlimited, Missoula County, USFS, Private Landowners
Involvement: Restoration funding, colunteer work possible in the future
WSCTU has been working to restore the Nine Mile watershed, which has been severly degraded by mining, for some time. WSCTU was [ READ MORE... ]
Project Date: 2015-2016
Partners: Clark Fork Coalition, USFS, FWP
Involvement: Funding for restoration
WSCTU is supporting the Upper Lolo Sediment Reduction Project, which will focus on decommissioning forest roads and associated culverts that add sediment to the area streams. Where culverts [ READ MORE... ]
Project Date: 2009
Partners: Trout Unlimited
Involvement: Funding assistance
Placer mining restoration project.
Little McCormick Creek is a tributary of Ninemile Creek, located approximately ten miles upstream from Ninemile Creek’s confluence with the Clark Fork River. Little McCormick [ READ MORE... ]
Project Date: 2010
Partners: FWP, MTU, USGS, USFS
Involvement: Funding for lake trout spawning research
WSCTU has contributed funds for three years for the purchase of radio telemetry tags. The agencies use telemetry to identify lake trout spawning areas in an effort to focus suppression [ READ MORE... ]