Bitteroot River

Another look at channeling on the Bitteroot

by Wayne Mumford February 9, 2012

False Casts and Flat Tires added more images yesterday on the story they broke a few days back on some man-made channeling work that was diverting water to the head gate of the infamous Mitchell slough. Predictably, a fairly big uproar has ensued and it has become an over night “who done it”, probably more [...]

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More on channel manipulation on the Bitteroot

by Wayne Mumford February 2, 2012

I did a little poking around today to see what I could dig up on the apparent river bed alterations on the Bitteroot river at Mitchell Slough. I fired off a couple emails and made a call to the Bitteroot Conservation District to see what permits existed in the area- no one was home. Hopefully [...]

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Bitteroot River gets a man made channel change?

by Wayne Mumford February 1, 2012

I’m kinda in the tail wind on this story but it’s important that as many river folks hear about it as possible, if even one reader hasn’t heard it- then I haven’t been remiss. A few days back False Casts and Flat Tires put up a post on some pretty dramatic looking stream alterations made [...]

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Skwala’s- coming to a river near you?

by Wayne Mumford March 24, 2011

If you’re a regular on Montana’s Bitteroot River or the Yakima River in Washington then you know this bug well. This is their season and they should be underway anytime. This one came from the creek across the highway from our place a couple years back. By comparison to this year the season was well [...]

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