A brief description of current activities includes:

Haskill Basin Watershed Council

http://water.montana.edu/watersheds/groups/details.asp?groupID=12

The Haskill Basin drainage is located north and east of the City of Whitefish and Whitefish Lake, in northwest Montana, Flathead County. Haskill Creek is a tributary to the Whitefish River. The watershed extends from The Big Mountain ski resort in the northern part of the drainage to the Whitefish River to the south. The drainage encompasses approximately 8,200 acres (Private - 4,432 acres, USFS - 3,370 acres, and State - 520 acres). The City of Whitefish obtains most of its drinking water from upper Haskill Creek. The drainage is impacted in some form by residential and recreational development and agricultural practices.

Shown below are pictures of the restoration site. It will undergo repairs in 2007. TMDL water quality data gathering is complete. Project effectiveness monitoring will continue through 2008.

 
Haskill Creek, looking south.

Swift Creek Coalition

Swift Creek, a major tributary to Whitefish Lake, is located in Flathead County, in northwestern Montana, and is listed as a water quality limited water body by Montana DEQ. The drainage covers approximately 49,475 acres. Swift Creek is a source of water for the City of Whitefish.

TMDL water quality sampling work is complete.

Clark Fork Task Force

http://dnrc.mt.gov/wrd/water_mgmt/clarkforkbasin_taskforce/default.asp

The Clark Fork River basin covers most of Montana’s portion of the Columbia River basin, which drains the mountains and valleys of Montana west of the Continental Divide. It is a headwaters basin, meaning that almost all of the water leaving the basin originates within the basin. For the purposes of this plan, the Clark Fork River basin has been divided into six smaller watersheds: Flathead River, Bitterroot River, Blackfoot River Upper Clark Fork River Middle Clark Fork River, and Lower Clark Fork River.

Ashley Creek Watershed Group

For information contact the Flathead Conservation District

The Ashley Creek Watershed encompasses an area of 327 square miles (approximately 210,000 acres) immediately west of Kalispell. The stream network has a total length of 177 miles and is dominated by four streams --Ashley, Mount, Truman and Bales -- and four lakes -- Ashley, Lone, Monroe and Smith. Ashley Creek becomes a fourth order stream below the confluence with Mount Creek, and flows from the Smith Valley into the greater Flathead Valley, the city of Kalispell to the mainstem of the Flathead River about 15 miles upstream from Flathead Lake. The watershed is characterized by heavily timbered mountains in the headwaters and a mixture of farmland and residential dwellings at lower elevations near steams. Given the watershed's proximity to Kalispell, the region's largest city, it is becoming increasingly urbanized.

Friends of Mill Creek

Contact us to join the project.

Landowners have banded together to fight weeds in a grant from the Noxious Weed Trust Fund. This grant provides a 50% cost share on the price of chemical and/or a commercial applicator's fees and seeds.  Check out the map to see if you live in the Mill Creek Weed Management Area.

Mill Creek WMA map

Bigfork Watershed Group

A new watershed group is forming to guide the upcoming stormwater control project for Bigfork.  To find out more, contact us.