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

   Client: Coalition of 4 large local landowners adjacent to Swift Creek

   Excessive erosion was occurring in the lower reach of Swift Creek, the main tributary to Whitefish Lake. Several landowners were losing property and aggradation was causing a loss of stream competency in the reach. The landowners were preparing for a war of rip-rap which was discouraged by the local Conservation District. An engineering firm had proposed a large gravel mine to act as a settling basin as a means to deal with the aggradation. The scenario was complication both by the presence of bull trout and the deltaic inlet to Whitefish Lake. Watershed Consulting performed a detailed evaluation of the reach, including Total Station Survey and Hydrologic Analysis, Bedload transport, Fish Habitat and Bull Trout spawning surveys. This analysis led to a detailed restoration plan providing for bank stabilization, fish habitat improvement and corridor-wide riparian restoration which was backed by all the landowners and MTFWP. This project was implemented in 1999 and is extremely successful.

   Personnel involved:
   Steve Buckley, Geomorphologist, Project Manager
   Igor Suchomel: Hydrologist
   Mike Koopal: Fish Biologist
   Mark VanderMeer: Plant Ecologist

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
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