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
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

    Client: ASARCO, Inc.

    ASARCO has proposed a mine in the Rock Creek drainage, which supports a resident bull trout population. A Previous Biological Evaluation identified excess fines in spawning gravels as a major problem in the drainage. Watershed Consulting surveyed the drainage from the mouth to the headwaters, concentrating on potential spawning habitats. Substrate and fines, as well as channel stability were quantitatively evaluated. Fish population and macroinvertebrates were sampled based on geomorphic stratification criteria. The preliminary conclusions of the survey indicate that the excess of fines, as identified in the Biological Evaluation, is not a problem. Rather a lack of spawning-size substrate limits bull trout spawning habitat. This is probably due to hydraulic modifications caused by removal of large woody debris in the past. Also, five staff gauges were installed to further describe runoff and low flow distribution in the Rock Creek drainage.

    Personnel involved:
    Igor Suchomel - project management, hydrology, geomorphology
    Steve Buckley - geology, geomorphology
    Mike Koopal - fisheries habitat and population sampling
    

    Contact: Bill Thompson, Hydrometrics, (406) 443-4150

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