A 1975 collapse of the earthen dam at that reservoir nearly killed the Blackfoot fishery. Decades of restoration work, including many of the tributaries to the main river, have restored the ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - For seven years, the lower stretches of the Blackfoot River and the Clark Fork River through the old Milltown Dam reservoir has been closed to boaters and floaters. The closures ...

For a while, the plan was to simply fence off the reservoir and pump new water to the Milltown residents. A catastrophic ice flow down the Blackfoot River in 1996 put the problem in a whole ...

Late-season floats on the Blackfoot River may have to stop short of its ... “The idea is to shore everything up before those larger reservoir piers are removed,” Dickinson said.

State officials and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) this year gained sizable water rights east of Missoula ...

will be managed with an eye toward instream flow fishery conservation in the upper Clark Fork and the Blackfoot river basins.

The pyrotechnics are part of a longstanding hazing program intended to scatter the birds, thereby giving the Upper Blackfoot River watershed’s embattled Yellowstone cutthroat trout population a ...

Blackfoot Reservoir, located about 40 miles east of ... a native species in the upper Snake River drainage that have declined in significant portions of their distribution. Their limited numbers ...

Idaho now has two colonies on islands behind the Snake River's Minidoka Dam near Rupert and in the Blackfoot Reservoir just west of the Idaho-Wyoming border. In 2003, state biologists counted ...

The Milltown Water Right, co-owned by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and the state, could be used to augment flows in the Clark Fork and Blackfoot rivers.