The investments will conserve enough water for more than half a million people per year and raise the level of Lake Mead by two feet per year, officials say.
Missoula County will partner with the Lolo National Forest to map and asses local gravel pits for invasive plant species and ensure they operate free of weeds.
Lindsey Holloway writes, "Rep. Paul Fielder, a trapper himself, would like to add trapping to our constitution in a deceitful manner and trample the rights of over 1 million other Montanans who hunt, fish, and recreate responsibly in our shared public lands."
For 20 years, environmentalists, water managers and the federal government have been fighting over the balance between keeping farms watered and keeping threatened fish alive.