Rivers drop, algae spreads as drought deepens After a warm, dry spring and early summer that hammered the winter snowpack, Montana’s rivers are already showing signs of stress with two months of summer to go.

Blackfoot River, W.C.MT: “As of Wed., the gage near Bonner was measuring a streamflow of 839 cubic feet per second, well below the median flow of 2,420 cfs for July 2nd.”

🏞️💧71 degrees F., 8 degrees warmer than the median. #BlackfootChallenge #MTClimate #MTRivers missoulacurrent.com/rivers-droug...

CSKT issues a fish consumption warning for three rivers • Daily Montanan The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are warning tribal members to indefinitely stop eating fish caught in rivers around the reservation because of high amounts of toxic chemicals, including fu...

1. All fish in the lower Clark Fork from the Bitterroot near Missoula to the Flathead near Paradise (PCBs, dioxins, furans). 2.🌈 trout & northern pike in the Bitterroot and the upper Clark Fork above the Bitterroot to Rock Creek. 3.🌈 from the Blackfoot. #MTRivers
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Waterkeeper to EPA: Enforce Montana’s water quality standards The Montana Legislature passed a bill to eliminate numerical standards for nitrogen and phosphorus pollution in Montana’s waters, so a water watchdog is once again asking the federal government to enf...

The EPA has 60 days to respond to HB 664, 685 & 736, which “eliminated Montana’s numerical water quality standards for nutrients and weakened the state’s nondegradation policy, which upholds the requirements of the U.S. Clean Water Act.” #MTPol #MTNews #MTRivers
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Tell DEQ to DENY New Big Sky Pollution Permit, Protect Gallatin River
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Add your voice to this campaign! Tell DEQ to DENY New Big Sky Pollution Permit, Protect Gallatin River
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Tester bill to designate sections of Montana rivers as wild and scenic clears Senate committee • Daily Montanan Democrats on the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Tuesday advanced U.S. Sen. Jon Tester’s Montana Headwaters Legacy Act out of the committee on a party-line vote, meaning the l...

Tester bill to designate sections of Montana rivers as wild and scenic clears Senate committee #MTPol #MTRivers #Montana #JonTester
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