Tag: Rattlesnake Dam
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 […]
Restoring waters & building momentum: 4 years of the Open Rivers Fund
A free-flowing river has an aura of inevitability. As creeks and small streams merge into one, the river finds its way. Left to its own devices, it goes where gravity says it must – scouring its own banks, starting course changes when obstructed, and moving material to rebuild its bed. On its way, gaining volume […]
Crews wrap up final details of historic Rattlesnake Dam removal
Rattlesnake Dam removal is almost complete
The opportunity for native westslope cutthroat and bull trout to move unimpeded up and down Rattlesnake Creek in Missoula, Mont., is close to reality. Contractors hired by Trout Unlimited, Montana Trout Unlimited, the City of Missoula and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, among other partners, have been working this summer to remove Rattlesnake Dam. The […]