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Daddys Beer| River use violations on the Bighole, Beaverhead | Drones in your neighborhood?

by Wayne Mumford February 11, 2012

Near and dear to most of our hearts is our favorite liquid refreshments. I love beer, especially when the weathers hot and that’s not a long season in Montana. Fortunate for me I can only drink a small fraction of what I drank in my younger days before I have some kind of gastrointestinal revolt. [...]

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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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310 Permits, Mitchell slough headgates, muddy water

by Wayne Mumford February 3, 2012

Lucky from Button Valley Bugle astutely chimed in on the recent goings-on down the Bitteroot today. This is the goods folks, the article he references from the Missoulian is an absolute must read. Thanks so much Lucky! The Bitterroot Conservation District began issuing 310 permits to the landowners on Mitchell Slough for various work since [...]

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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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Missouri River Trout, Gulf Oil Spill Report

by Wayne Mumford December 17, 2011

First, some good news from the HeadHunters crew on the state of the Missouri river trout population- the fish appear to be doing well. MT FWP also report a 13.95 pound and 32.5 inches long Walleye from the Cascade section. Sounds like eradicating Wally and eating well go hand in hand on the Mo’. And [...]

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Montana Dam Dispute- Who powers the US Supreme Court?

by Wayne Mumford December 7, 2011

“Navigable waters” is back in the courts again. Now it’s the US Supreme court being asked to overturn a Montana Supreme Court ruling that the state owns the submerged land beneath 10 dams sitting on three Montana rivers. Montana PPL is up in arms because they would owe the state a few million in back [...]

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Time to speak out on mixing oil and water

by Wayne Mumford July 6, 2011

While state agencies and Exxon both seemed a little slow moving on the Yellowstone river oil spill, Governor Brian Schweitzer was out to have a look around today. Not one to miss a chance at raising the battle cry the governor was making sure that Exxon wasn’t painting to rosy of a picture. Exxon itself [...]

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