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

   Client: Whitepine Creek Watershed Council

   The Whitepine Creek Watershed Council (WCWC), formed in 1999, consists of a diverse group of stakeholders including local landowners, corporations, and local, state and federal agencies. In 2000, the WCWC contracted Watershed Consulting, LLC to produce a watershed assessment of the Whitepine drainage in order to provide the council, and other agencies, baseline information for future management decisions. In addition to providing the WCWC an overall picture of watershed and stream health, the report also provided recommendations for potential watershed and stream restoration activities.

   The assessment of the Whitepine Creek drainage consisted of reviewing and incorporating existing pertinent data from various sources. From this data, we determined the existence of data gaps, as well as where duplication of other studies would be unnecessary unless existing data was questionable by its methodology. The actual fieldwork for this assessment included gathering upland, stream, channel, riparian and fisheries data, and specifically identifying and studying degraded channel areas. The data analysis led to a baseline understanding of the drainage with specific short and long-term plans for restoration mitigation. The restoration mitigation involves re-configuring the stream to its natural geometry, placing rootwad revetments to prevent accelerated bank erosion, re-vegetating the riparian and floodplain to provide integrity, and installing fish habitat enhancement structures.

   This watershed assessment and restoration plan has gained widespread support from various agencies and funding sources, and project implementation is scheduled to begin in 2001.

   Personnel involved:
   Mike Koopal - Project management, fish habitat, fish population investigation
   Steve Buckley - Fluvial geomorphology, hydrology
   Mark Vander Meer - Upland, riparian, soils

   Contact: Mike Miller, Coordinator, Whitepine Creek Watershed Council, Heron, MT (406) 847-5560

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