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Swan Lake Project
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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... ]
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St. Louis Creek Project
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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... ]
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Six Mile Creek Project
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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... ]
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Shanley Creek Project
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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... ]
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Rock Creek Confluence Project
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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... ]
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Rattlesnake Creek Fish Screen Project
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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... ]
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Nine Mile and Sawpit Creeks Project
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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... ]
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Lolo Creek Project
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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... ]
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Little McCormick Creek Project
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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... ]
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Holland and Lindberg Lakes Project
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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... ]
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