Clark Fork River

With more rain in the forecast and a rapidly melting snowpack, the National Weather Service on Friday issued a flood watch for portions of the Clark Fork River.

One person died after a boat overturned Monday evening on the Clark Fork River near Clinton, the Missoula County Sheriff's Office said.

Recent sampling around Montana has found “forever chemicals” in some fish tissue, so the state is advising against eating too much fish from some locations, including the Clark Fork River.

The West Broadway River Corridor Master Plan will now move to 30% design over the remaining year and enable project backers to begin fundraising.

On the Clark Fork, the ambassadors will cover roughly 8.5 miles from Sha-Ron and Milltown down to Silver Park and points in between. On the Bitterroot, they'll work nine miles of river from Lolo north to Kona bridge.

Plans to increase access to a Clark Fork River island and enhance recreation and the passage of fish is inching toward a final design, followed by an early engineering plan.

The work will identify areas of the central Clark Fork River that could use some work to restore the damage done by mining, development, dewatering and general neglect.

The Environmental Protection Agency still hasn’t analyzed the most recent contamination data from the Smurfit-Stone mill site.

As drought and the summer heat causes streams to dwindle, water will once again be released from Silver Lake to bolster Warm Springs Creek and the upper Clark Fork River.

After the U.S. Department of Interior failed to uphold its part of a legal settlement, two organizations have renewed their lawsuit to try to save bull trout in the upper Clark Fork River.