Bitterroot Water Partnership

09/02/2026

I don't know about you, but our ducks are REALLY excited for River Rooted on September 12. 🦆🌊⭐

Get your ticket today and join 196 ducks - and just as many human friends - at Hamilton River Park for River Rooted. 🎟

🏅🦆🏅 Can't make it? You can still adopt a duck for $20 and enter it in the grand duck race for a chance to win up to $500.

Tickets include a Bitterroot-made dinner, plus we'll have beer, wine, cocktails, and a collection of awesome silent-auction prizes.

Grab your ticket at bitterrootwater.org/RiverRooted to celebrate community and conservation with the Bitterroot Water Partnership!

09/02/2026

We're still at it... 12 days left to comment on the Sheep Creek Mine Exploration Proposal! Join us ⭐THIS FRIDAY⭐ @ Bitter Root Brewing for another Comment Writing Night.

We'll be there with the Ravalli County Fish and Wildlife Association to get you quality information, encouragement, guidance and tips on how to submit a powerful & personal public comment to the Forest Service about the Sheep Creek Mine Exploration Proposal.

Enjoy a pint from our friends at while you craft your comment!

Learn more at DontPolluteTheRoot.com/Take-Action/

08/24/2026

Hey, Stevi ! We're coming to you for Public Comment on Sheep Creek Mine!! See you @ Blacksmith Brewing Company WEDNESDAY 8/26 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm

We'll be there with Wild Montana to get you quality information, encouragement, guidance and tips on how to submit a powerful & personal public comment to the Forest Service about the Sheep Creek Mine Exploration Proposal.

Enjoy a pint from our friends at Blacksmith while you craft your comment!

Learn more at DontPolluteTheRoot.com/Take-Action

08/23/2026

Tickets are ON SALE for River Rooted! Get yours today and join us down by the River on September 12 to celebrate community and conservation with the Bitterroot Water Partnership. 🌊 bitterrootwater.org/RiverRooted

Your $30 ticket includes a delicious dinner spread with goodies from all sorts of local producers, live music from the Bear Creek Boys, and a beautiful evening with friends at Hamilton River Park.

And, for $20 you can adopt a duck for a chance to win a $500 cash prize in the duck race! 🦆

CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU THERE! 👏👏👏

We lead conservation initiatives to promote and provide clean, ample water and healthy habitats.

08/20/2026

Wow...👏👏👏 You kicked off the 30-day public comment period for the Sheep Creek Mine Exploration Proposal with an astounding showing of force at Tuesday's Community Meeting. With 600+ of us gathered here, it remains clear where the Bitterroot stands on this matter.

Many of you have submitted your public comment to the Bitterroot National Forest. Keep it up!! It is the most valuable action we can take at this moment.

🟢 Find guidance and HOW and WHERE to submit a powerful public comment at:
DontPolluteTheRoot.com/Take-Action

🟢 Find a recording of Tuesday's Community Meeting here: https://youtu.be/1afBV1T9Z2I
Where presenters give guidance on how to craft an informed, meaningful public comment for the Exploration Proposal.

Anyone who wants to take a stand for the Bitterroot can - and should - submit a public comment. It's up to us to hold US Critical Materials accountable.

We will follow up with more updates and Public Comment events shortly.

08/14/2026

See you ⭐TUESDAY, August 18 at 5:30 at Hamilton High School⭐ to kick off the 30-day Public Comment period for the Sheep Creek Mine Exploration Proposal.

🌊 You'll leave this gathering prepared to submit a meaningful written comment to the Forest Service.

After a panel presentation highlighting deficiencies in the Exploration Proposal, you can mingle with speakers to ask questions.

Speakers at the Community Meeting include Ravalli County Commissioners, Dr. Phil Ramsey, the Bitterroot Water Partnership, Ravalli County Economic Development Authority, American Rivers, and the Clark Fork Coalition.

🌊 Many other trusted community leaders and partners will be present as well.

⭐ Learn more about concerns with the Exploration Plan, the insufficient review being applied to the Plan, and how to submit YOUR written comment at DontPolluteTheRoot.com/Take-Action

08/06/2026

Please join the Community Meeting on Tuesday, August 18 to learn about major concerns with the Sheep Creek Mine Exploration Plan AND to voice your own concerns with this headwaters mine proposal.

We are grateful to the Bitterroot National Forest for offering a 30-day public comment period, opening August 14.

🟢 COMMUNITY MEETING 8/18🟢: After a panel presentation highlighting deficiencies in the Exploration Proposal, you can submit your public comment.

🟢 Speakers include Dr. Phil Ramsey, Ravalli County Commissioners, the Bitterroot Water Partnership, and others.

🟢 Your voice matters - and your presence does too. Your participation in the Public Meeting will help show our representatives and US Critical Materials where we stand on this issue.

🟠 The Exploration Plan is currently being reviewed under a 'Categorical Exclusion', the lowest level of review available. We urge the Forest Service to recognize the extraordinary circumstances that warrant this Plan be reviewed with a complete Environmental Assessment.

Subscribe at DontPolluteTheRoot.com for action alerts and guidance during this critical Public Comment Period.



Clark Fork Coalition American Rivers Montana Trout Unlimited

08/04/2026

😱😱😱 Wetland recovery up at Tolan Creek is speeding along! In just one year, 40 of these 'beaver dam analogues' have slowed water run off, recharged groundwater, and trapped sediment to create cool, healthy stream conditions from the headwaters down through the East Fork of the Bitterroot River.

👏Thank you for rebuilding this critical natural water storage! 👏
In a future with less reliable snowpack, restoration IS water storage.

🦫 2025 - Though water has already pooled behind this dam, you can see to the bottom of the entrenched stream bed, where fine sediment and mud that suffocates aquatic habitat coats the floor.

🦫2026 - See how much sand and debris this dam captured in just one year? The bottom of the stream bed as been raised over a foot! Without capture, this muddy sediment pollution would have tracked across miles of stream habitat.

Slow water soaks into the ground, where it is cooled, and slowly released to the River, wildlife, and working lands across our hot, dry summer.

Often, recovery of a degraded habitat can take years. Sometimes - it feels like it's happening right in front of your eyes!

07/28/2026

River Clean Up is almost here! Sign up online for a floating or walking site today! 🤩Then, join 120+ other volunteers on Saturday, August 8 to clean hundreds of pounds of trash from our Bitterroot River.

🌊Sign up at bitterrootwater.org/CleanUp

After you clean up on your own schedule, join the Bitterroot Water Partnership to celebrate your commitment - and a clean River! Find the after party on the patio @ Fin's Taphouse in Corvallis, from 4:30 - 7 pm.

👏🤩👏This event is made possible thanks to our partners at the Bitterroot Conservation District and Ravalli County Fish and Wildlife Association, and sponsors the Walmart SparkGood fund and Bitterroot Disposal.

2026 bitterroot river clean up isSaturday, august 8 There's no better way to close out our summer River season than to join this grand river stewardship event. Pick your site, sign up in the form below, and clean up your section at anytime on August 8! Each year, community volunteers rally to clean....

07/21/2026

Hey, 👋 wanted to make sure you knew yard signs are back in stock. Order yours and pick up in the Bitterroot Water Partnership office (Hamilton) office ASAP! 🌊

Signs come in XXL (shown here) and Normal size.

Learn more about the proposed Sheep Creek Mine at DontPolluteTheRoot.com. You can order your (normal size) sign here: https://wl.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebLink.aspx?name=E344378&id=65

🟠 The proposed Sheep Creek Mine isn’t just located near the Bitterroot River - It would sit directly in the headwaters of the West Fork, where the River begins. This is the worst possible location for this mine.

🟠 The West Fork is a top-priority for protection. It delivers clean, cold water and sustains Painted Rocks Reservoir, which stores over 10 billion gallons of water vital for working lands and maintaining stream flow that keep fish and wildlife thriving.

🟠 What happens at Sheep Creek Mine will not stay there. Any contamination will move downstream. Once degraded by mining, these waters and habitats could never be fully restored — no matter the cleanup funds promised.

🟢 Subscribe for email updates and action alerts at DontPolluteTheRoot.com/Subscribe to help protect our Bitterroot waters and our ways of life.