BUTTE -- Having undertaken an ambitious project — cleaning up 44 river miles on the Clark Fork — the state has so far removed about 1.2 million cubic yards of “dirty dirt” in both Powell and ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Anglers fishing the ice or open water at Racetrack Pond face a short walk in the months ahead ...

More than a century of pollution linked to mining and smelting upstream hammered the upper Clark Fork River. Superfund-related remediation and restoration work, though imperfect, has demonstrated the ...

The $3.7 million project will remove contaminated soil from historic mining along more than a mile of riverbank near the Racetrack Pond by Deer Lodge.

A Wednesday night meeting in Deer Lodge pondered that question and the concerted but so far unsuccessful efforts to answer with some measure of clarity what has happened in the upper river. About 40 ...

BUTTE, Mont. — Where’s the fish? It’s the question everyone has asked from expert biologists to amateur fisherman about the Upper Clark Fork between Warm Springs and Drummond during the last decade.

WARM SPRINGS — Three fly fishermen tied tippets, affixed elk hair caddis flies, detoured around sickly green slickens and fought through streamside willows thicker than the clouds obscuring nearby ...

Among other things, the federal agency’s take on the draft strategic plan for the Clark Fork River by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and state’s Natural Resource Damage Program found ...

History records that bull trout once played an important role in sustaining Indigenous peoples in southwestern Montana. Bull trout were once abundant in the Clark Fork River and Silver Bow Creek, ...

The latest work to address contamination along the Clark Fork River from historic mining and smelting upstream is scheduled to begin in January. The focus will be a stretch of stream and floodplain in ...

DEER LODGE — The abbreviation “WTF” typically communicates profane bewilderment. Yet when the context shifts to the upper Clark Fork River the meaning becomes “Where’s the fish?” A Wednesday night ...