The Missoula Fire Department responded twice this week to calls of an individual camping on an island in the Clark Fork River as the waters began to rise.
The Clark Fork River has earned the unfortunate distinction of being one of America’s 10 most endangered rivers, according to a national river organization.
The city and a team of state and local partners will turn their focus to a stretch of the Clark Fork River in downtown Missoula in a bid to protect infrastructure, restore habitat and add a new recreational feature.
A petition for Fish, Wildlife & Parks to allow motorized boats on the Bitterroot River into the summer months was withdrawn, but only after the FWP commission debated creating a working group to consider it.