Category: Montana
October Newsletter: Rattlesnake Creek
The Open Rivers Fund October 2025 newsletter focuses on the wilderness and community benefits from the Rattlesnake Creek dam removal projects. We look forward to sharing more of these stories with you each month. Read the newsletter > Subscribe * indicates required Email Address * First Name Last Name Title Organization District
Groups push for dam removal project
Federal funding freeze leaves Montana businesses and restoration projects in limbo
Clark Fork Fish Passage Project Earns White House Props
Blow it up! Dam destruction opens new chapter in Rattlesnake Wilderness
Documentary Spotlights Partnerships in Dam Removal
To celebrate its first five years of work, Open Rivers Fund—a program of Resources Legacy Fund, launched in November 2016 with a 10-year, $50-million investment from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation—worked with film director Jason Jaacks to produce a documentary highlighting several dynamic dam removal projects and partnerships that are reshaping waterways across the American […]
Citizen Scientists Help Document Recovery of Rattlesnake Creek
Rattlesnake Dam removal improves safety, enhances creek and provides recreation opportunities
Chris In The Creek: An Ethnographic Approach To Community Based Monitoring
Western Montana’s Rattlesnake Creek and its many relations – human and more-than-human – are at the heart of our ongoing research-practice partnership between Watershed Education Network (WEN) and the UC Davis Center for Community and Citizen Science. As part of this partnership, I was fortunate enough to visit Missoula this past summer to collect data […]