Beaverhead Watershed Committee

02/24/2025

Scholarship Opportunity!

02/24/2025

Montana Natural Resources Youth Camp

https://www.montana.edu/extension/forestry/mnryc/index.html

02/19/2025

07/11/2024

Grasshopper Creek begins its journey in the Pioneer Mountains, flowing through the agricultural valley bottom and the dry, rocky canyon below Bannack Ghost Town, before it merges with the Beaverhead River downstream of Clark Canyon Dam. While beautiful and an important tributary to the Beaverhead River, it is not without its problems.

The Grasshopper is a major source of sediment for the Beaverhead, and with the dam, there aren't high spring flows and floods to clear out the sediment. Because of this, the Beaverhead Watershed Committee is pursuing projects to reduce erosion on the Grasshopper and the eventual sediment flowing into the Beaverhead. The current project will stabilize mine tailings along the creek and soften the structure with even more willows to improve stability and fish habitat. They’ve secured DNRC and FWP Future Fisheries funding for this project and will break ground this fall. Project partners include Bannack State Park, Montana DNRC, and Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Future Fisheries.

A post for Beaverhead Watershed Committee and Beaverhead Conservation District’s feature during !

06/18/2024

Elk Management Event this Thursday. Western Landowners Alliance
and Madison Valley Ranchlands Group are hosting a meeting on the impacts of elk to ranchers and producers. Presentation + Q&A. Food!

05/04/2021

FYI, we currently aren't active on Facebook. We may occasionally post something here, but for anyone following us, please forgive the lack of posting. Facebook feels like a necessary evil...but we're going to test the "necessary" part. : )

12/10/2019

Old News and New News -

Jamie Cottom has moved on to another phase (but hasn't gone far), and we already miss her. She helped guide the Watershed Committee for the last few years through algae blooms, turbidity, w**d pulls, the last stages of the Poindexter Slough project and kicked off our Grasshopper Creek assessment. ...

09/20/2019

Mark your calendars folks!!!

08/23/2019

Owl Speaker Event- Tuesday, August 27th -

07/30/2019

TONIGHT! Grasshopper Creek Update -

The Beaverhead Watershed Committee received grant funding from DNRC to complete an in depth assessment of the sediment issues on Grasshopper Creek to determine if they are tied to historical mining activity.  Join us to get an update on the assessment work from Pioneer Technical Services.