PROJECT SUMMARIES

1. Big Mountain Wetland Delineation
2. Teton River Restoration and Irrigation Diversion Retrofit
3. Ashley Creek Watershed/Riparian Assessment
4. Lower Swift Creek Restoration
5. Flathead River Erosion Control Demonstration Project
6. Watershed Assessment, Whitepine Creek - MT
7. Forest and Environmental Management Plan - MT
8. Monitoring Endangered Species Act (ESA) Fish Species During Road Construction / Reconstruction Implementation-ID
9. Flathead River Erosion Control Demonstration Project - MT

   Client: Flathead Conservation District

   In 2000, Watershed Consulting was contracted to provide a site assessment and erosion control and bank stabilization design for a demonstration project. The use of stream bank protection and stabilization techniques along the Flathead River has been debated for decades. A principle cause for debate is the fact that each point of instability presents an individual and unique problem caused by an array of interrelated factors. River size and character, topography, aspect, land use, soil characteristics, vegetation communities, and a fluctuating water level all contribute to the stability or instability of a specific bank. In the past, techniques used to reduce erosion and mass wasting were limited mostly to artificially armoring the bank with riprap. Now, the focus of bank stabilization has shifted towards the restoration of elements and processes that naturally stabilize stream banks while providing other important functions as well. The purpose of the Flathead River Bank Stabilization Demonstration Project is to contrast and compare a diversity of riverbank stabilization techniques in light of the following goals:

   • Bank Stability
   • Fish and Wildlife Habitat
   • Aesthetics
   • Practicality & Economic Efficiency

   In addition to the overall goals listed above, the demonstrated techniques should attempt to meet the following objectives:

   1. Techniques should be self maintaining, requiring little attention after the initial installment;
   2. Techniques should emphasize the use of native plants and soil bioengineering;
   3. Techniques should emphasize the restoration of the physical and biological functions of riverside ecosystem;
   4. Techniques should improve water quality through reduction of water temperature and sediment contributions; and
   5. Techniques should connect fragmented riparian habitats

   Several of these techniques have been used successfully on streams and rivers in the Flathead Valley. However, the demonstration project is designed to implement many of these techniques in the same area and monitor the effectiveness of each technique over the long term, with Total Station Survey accuracy and photo points. In this way various land management and permitting agencies, as well as the public, can evaluate the effectiveness of the various techniques in terms of the above goals.

   Personnel Involved:
   Steve Buckley, Project Manager
   Mark Vander Meer - Restoration Ecologist/ Soil Scientist

   Contact: Kathy Jones, Flathead Conservation District (406) 752-4220

10. The Petrig Land Stewardship and Watershed Restoration Project.
11. Stream Stability Fluvio-Geomorphic Assessment and Restoration, Clear Creek and Big Creek - MT
12. Stream Channel Rehabilitation - Dunham Creek, MT
13. Channel Dynamics and Stream Stability Assessment and Rehabilitation; Elk Creek(Noxon) - MT
14. Wetland Construction Feasibility Study - Olson Coulee, MT
15. Channel Dynamics Evaluation, and Streambank and County Road Reconstruction Design - St. Regis River, MT
16. Watershed Assessments - ID
17. Fluvio-Geomorphic Fish Habitat Variables Assessment; Rock Creek near Noxon, MT
18. Channel Dynamics and Streambank Stability Evaluation - Yellowstone River and Clark Fork River, MT
19. Geomorphic and Aquatic Habitat Survey on 48 Pristine Reaches
20. Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Population and Habitat Evaluation - Nevada
21. Yellowstone Pipeline Proposed Emergency Repair Evaluation - MT
22. Riparian Vegetation Restoration, Clear Creek - MT
23. Biological Evaluations, Clearwater River Drainage - ID
24. Stream Habitat Inventories for Selected Blackfoot Tributaries - MT
25. Streamflow Measurements, NW Montana
26. Assistance to Montana Conservation Districts
27. Monitoring Plan Development and Implementation: St. Clair Creek, Sapphire Mountains, MT
28. Channel Design for Bridge Reconstruction - O'Brien Creek, MT
29. Channel Trends Analysis and Channel Rehabilitation Design - Therriault Creek, MT
30. Self-Cleaning Flat-Plate Fish Screen Design, Manufacture and Installation
31. Design of Channel Fish Bypass Ladders for Irrigation Dams, Douglas Creek, Big Blackfoot River Drainage - MT
32. Alternative Irrigation Diversion Structure and Fish Screen Design and Installation, Salmon Creek, Big Blackfoot River Drainage - MT
33. Large Irrigation Diversion Structure Evaluation and Design, Sun River near Fort Shaw - MT
34. Infiltration Gallery Diversion Design and Installation, Mol Heron Creek near Corwin Springs - MT
35. Evaluation and Geomorphic Stability Analysis of Six Diversion Structures, Teton River upstream of Choteau - MT
36. Evaluation of Czech Republic Geomorphic Stream Classification System - Czech Republic
37. Mineral Property Evaluations - Sierra Madre, Chihuahua and Sinaloa States, Mexico
38. Property Evaluation- Bolivian Altiplano, South America
39. R1/R4 Fisheries Habitat Assessment
40. Development and Implementation of Water Quality Montioring Plan
41. Moose Fire Rehabilition Fisheries Biologist and EA, EIS Preparation
42. Proposed Goat/Squeezer Timber Sale -Fisheries Biologist Preparation of EIS
43. Feasibility Assessment and Design of Spawning Habitat for Rainbow Trout