CFWEP | Clark Fork Watershed Education Program
CFWEP | Clark Fork Watershed Education Program
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The Clark Fork River and its tributaries drain most of western Montana. The upper river and headwaters were heavily impacted by wastes from over a century of mining. Today, the area is the largest Superfund environmental clean-up site in the nation.

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Clark Fork Info > News > Archive > April 2009

April 29th, 2009:
Montana DNRC Highground Newsletter (pdf)
EPA Site Update - Milltown - April 2009 (pdf)

April 27th, 2009:
Montana Standard: Ennis hatchery to get $249,000
Montana Standard: Walking in Darwin's footsteps
Montana Standard: Wilderness association opens office in Uptown Butte
Montana Standard: Big Hole River scours popular campground
Montana Standard: State waters remain icy cold
Montana Standard: Pike found in Jefferson
Montana Standard: Hunters, climate change blamed for dead grizzlies
Montana Standard: Pine beetles topic of Tuesday talk
Montana Standard: Officials report healthy snowpack
Montana Standard: Group wants to buy bear-proof bins
Missoulian: Dam removal will spur changes in Clark Fork's banks (video link included in article)
Missoulian:< Bitterroot's Janine Benyus honored by the United Nations for environmental work
Missoulian: Stimulus money will clean up contamination at Rimini
Missoulian: Court rejects challenge to nine Kootenai National Forest projects
Missoulian: Significant damage found at recreation area along Racetrack Creek
Missoulian: RMEF funds habitat work around state
Missoulian: Teenager leading Mack Days
Missoulian: Missoula air pollution panel alters proposed regulations
Missoulian: Scientists: DEQ water-discharge permits flawed
Missoulian: Public comment sought on statewide water report
Missoulian: Coal mine could bring $1.4B for Montana - Some property owners, environmentalists strongly against two projects
Missoulian: Marshall Block given $6M grant
Missoulian: Mountain lion captured in CFalls euthanized
Missoulian: Refuges, fisheries to get $280 million stimulus
Missoulian: Troy Mine seeing light at the end of its tunnel
Missoula Independent: Hot air, big water

April 15th, 2009:
Montana Standard: Finding a cure - Tech professors land grant to study organisms in pit
Missoulian: New group wants tourists to help pay for conservation easements
Missoulian: City Council OK puts Jumbo land deal in commissioners' hands
Missoulian: Annual river cleanup Saturday in Missoula
Missoulian: Ladder to open upstream Clark Fork to fish
Missoulian: Diverse group asks for more Montana wilderness
Missoulian: New Glacier superintendent wants more wilderness (video link included in article)
The Waterblogger: Community Rallies ‘Round Silver Bow Creek
The Waterblogger: Get Out on the River: CFWEP Seeking Spring Fieldtrip Volunteers
The Waterblogger: Jen Titus is the Montana Water Educator of the Year!

April 13th, 2009:
Montana Standard: Concerns raised on new herbicide
Montana Standard: Missoula County looks at tougher stove rules
Montana Standard: N. Fork of Flathead on ‘Endangered Rivers' list
Montana Standard: River rally, safety fair in Whitehall
Montana Standard: Ice is going off reservoirs
Montana Standard: Lecture series offered at Tech
Montana Standard: Elk falls in with antelope herd
Montana Standard: Wolves caught in the act killed
Montana Standard: Controlled burns planned in area
Montana Standard: As the prey goes
Missoulian: Stimulus funds could help plug Montana's leaking underground storage tank program
Missoulian: Rock Creek developer pulls project
Missoulian: Sage grouse suit targets grazing, drilling in West
Missoulian: Superfund proposal to be published
Missoulian: Senate votes not to confirm Rossbach - Montana Board of Environmental Review
Missoulian: Environmental work by Great Falls kids brings $30,000
Missoulian: Grant dollars to fund forest work
Missoulian: Stream access bill to be signed Monday
Missoulian: Hearing set in dispute over construction along river
Missoulian: State agency acquires fishing access near Kalispell
Missoula Independent: Subdivision proposal sinks
Latest News from the Clark Fork River Technical Assistance Committee (CFRTAC)
April Headlines from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks: Wolf Depredations Confirmed; Trails at Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park Closed April 13-17 for Aerial Weed Spraying; Leave the mallards alone and they will leave; Meeting To Discuss PCB Cleanup in Big Spring Creek; et al.
April Public Notices from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
April News from the Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality

April 8th, 2009:
Montana Standard: Toxic to aquatic - ‘Rally 'Round the Creek' continues cleanup push
Montana Standard: FWP appointee passes first test
Montana Standard: Snowmobilers set off slides
Missoulian: Montana Law Review: Eyes on stream access decision
Missoulian: Grouse’s-eye view - Researcher uses 'fembot’ to study birds’ courtship rituals (video link included in article)

April 7th, 2009:
Montana Standard: Join public rally for Silver Bow Creek
Montana Standard: State will pick up $600K tab for cleanup
Montana Standard: Clark Fork River trout study planned
Montana Standard: Creek rally is Tuesday
Montana Standard: March storms help snowpack
Montana Standard: Stream access bill headed to governor
Montana Standard: FWP investigating raptor deaths on Hi-Line
Missoulian:< Huge addition - School hopes to buy part of mountain for education, preservation
Missoulian: DEQ: Cleanup vote sets bad precedent - Panel passes measure for state funds to pay private business’s obligation at Kalispell site
Missoulian: Volunteers needed to help restore M Trail
Missoulian: UM research conference open to the public
Missoulian: N. Fork of Flathead on 'Endangered Rivers' list
Missoulian: Judge rules in favor of mining company - Ruling says estimated $4.7 billion in shares must be returned
Missoulian: Input extended for gravel pit near Glacier
Missoulian: Waterfowl return to Metcalf: Wildlife refuge celebrates Junior Duck Stamp art
Missoulian: Floodplain work will change requirements for homeowners' insurance
Newwest.net: North Fork of the Flathead in Montana and Idaho’s Lower Snake River on ‘Most Endangered’ List
The Montana Conservationist (Montana Conservation Districts Newsletter) (pdf)

April 3rd, 2009:
Montana Standard: Yellowstone guide
Montana Standard: Too late to appeal bridge denial
Montana Standard: Stream access bill cruises through Senate
Missoulian: Proposed Asarco settlement open for public comment
Missoulian: Use up, violations down in Rattlesnake
Missoulian: Auditors criticize FWP's Upland Game Bird Enhancement Program
Missoulian: Full-force effort battles Flathead Lake invaders
Missoulian: New Google maps show sensitive areas of Montana, West
Missoulian: Judge orders protection review for whitefish
Newwest.net: Montana Senate Amends, Approves Stream Access Bill
Montana Water: Rivers Near Old Milltown Dam Site Remain Closed
Water Environment Federation: U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize
The Montana Conservationist (Montana Conservation Districts Newsletter) (pdf)
EPA Site Update - Milltown (pdf)

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