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BHWC Monthly Meetings: November 2024
The Big Hole Watershed Committee met at the Divide Grange Hall on Wednesday, November 20th, 2024. The meeting was also available via Zoom thanks to a partnership with Southern Montana Telephone Company, who donated WiFi for the Grange Hall in Divide, Montana. Coffee was provided by Black Coffee Roasting Company in Missoula.
The meeting included committee updates, project reports, and more. We were joined by Vanna Boccadori and Jesse Newby with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Vanna and Jesse gave an update on important wildlife studies and issues in the Big Hole watershed.
For more information on BHWC's monthly meetings or to view the meeting minutes, visit bhwc.org/monthly-meetings.
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BHWC Monthly Meeting: September 2024
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The Big Hole Watershed Committee met at the Divide Grange Hall on Wednesday, September 18th, 2024. The meeting was also available via Zoom thanks to a partnership with Southern Montana Telephone Company, who donated WiFi for the Grange Hall in Divide, Montana. Coffee was provided by Black Coffee Roasting Company in Missoula. The meeting included committee updates, project reports, and more. We ...
BHWC Monthly Meetings: August 2024
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The Big Hole Watershed Committee met at the Divide Grange Hall on Wednesday, August 21st, 2024. The meeting was also available via Zoom thanks to a partnership with Southern Montana Telephone Company, who donated WiFi for the Grange Hall in Divide, Montana. Coffee was provided by Black Coffee Roasting Company in Missoula. The meeting included committee updates, project reports, and more. We wer...
BHWC Monthly Meeting: June 2024
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The Big Hole Watershed Committee met at the Divide Grange Hall on Wednesday, June 19th, 2024. The meeting was also available via Zoom thanks to a partnership with Southern Montana Telephone Company, who donated WiFi for the Grange Hall in Divide, Montana. Coffee was provided by Black Coffee Roasting Company in Missoula. The meeting included committee updates, project reports, and more. We were ...
BHWC Monthly Meeting: May 2024
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The Big Hole Watershed Committee met at the Divide Grange Hall on Wednesday, May 15th, 2024. The meeting was also available via Zoom thanks to a partnership with Southern Montana Telephone Company, who donated WiFi for the Grange Hall in Divide, Montana. Coffee was provided by Black Coffee Roasting Company in Missoula. The meeting included committee updates, project reports, and more. We were j...
Upper Oregon Creek Restoration
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From 2020-2023, The Big Hole Watershed Committee and partners restored Upper Oregon Creek, addressing mining and logging-related damages. Damages to this area came from smelter emissions from Anaconda combined with extensive logging that removed vegetation, leading to extensive erosion and disruption of natural hydrologic functions. The Natural Resource Damage Program of Montana sued Atlantic R...
BHWC Monthly Meeting: April 2024
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The Big Hole Watershed Committee met at the Divide Grange Hall on Wednesday, April 17th, 2024. The meeting was also available via Zoom thanks to a partnership with Southern Montana Telephone Company, who donated WiFi for the Grange Hall in Divide, Montana. Coffee was provided by Black Coffee Roasting Company in Missoula. The meeting included committee updates, project reports, and more. We were...
BHWC Monthly Meeting: March 2024
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The Big Hole Watershed Committee met at the Divide Grange Hall on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024. The meeting was also available via Zoom thanks to a partnership with Southern Montana Telephone Company, who donated WiFi for the Grange Hall in Divide, Montana. Coffee was provided by Black Coffee Roasting Company in Missoula. The meeting included committee updates, project reports, and more. We were...
BHWC Monthly Meeting: February 2024
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The Big Hole Watershed Committee met at the Divide Grange Hall on Wednesday, February 21st, 2024. The meeting was also available via Zoom thanks to a partnership with Southern Montana Telephone Company, who donated WiFi for the Grange Hall in Divide, Montana. Coffee was provided by Black Coffee Roasting Company in Missoula. The meeting included committee updates, project reports, and more. We w...
Sage Smith Springs Restoration Timelapse
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Smith Sage Springs is the largest wet meadow in a 22,000-acre sagebrush area, providing crucial habitat for various wildlife. Originating from year-round springs in a sedge wetland, the poorly defined stream channel flows seasonally with no clear path. The spring cascades over active headcuts, some 8 ft high, migrating upstream and threatening the upstream wetland. In October, we completed our ...
BHWC Monthly Meeting: November 2023
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The Big Hole Watershed Committee's November monthly meeting was held Wednesday, November 15th, 2023 at the Divide Grange Hall. It was also available via Zoom thanks to a partnership with Southern Montana Telephone Company, who donated WiFi for the Grange Hall in Divide, Montana. Coffee was provided by Black Coffee Roasting Co. in Missoula. The meeting included committee updates, project reports...
BHWC Monthly Meeting: October 2023
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The Big Hole Watershed Committee's October monthly meeting was held Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 at the Divide Grange Hall. It was also available via Zoom thanks to a partnership with Southern Montana Telephone Company, who donated WiFi for the Grange Hall in Divide, Montana. The meeting included committee updates, project reports, and more. We were joined by Vanna Boccadori and Jesse Newby, F...
BHWC Monthly Meeting: September 2023
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The Big Hole Watershed Committee's September monthly meeting was held Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 at the Divide Grange Hall. It was also available via Zoom thanks to a partnership with Southern Montana Telephone Company, who donated WiFi for the Grange Hall in Divide, Montana. The meeting included committee updates, project reports, and more. We were joined by Vanna Boccadori, FWP Wildlife ...
Re-stocking Native Fish in French Creek with FWP
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In July 2023, we helped FWP re-stock native Arctic grayling and Westslope cutthroat trout (WCT) into the French Creek drainage on the Mount Haggin Wildlife Management Area (in Southwest Montana). This effort was the culmination of many years of involvement and investment by BHWC and partners to prepare the area for these fish! The French Creek drainage now hosts one of the largest interconnecte...
BHWC Monthly Meeting: August 2023
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BHWC Monthly Meeting: August 2023
The Big Hole Valley is a Big Deal
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The Big Hole Valley is a Big Deal
BHWC Monthly Meeting: June 2023
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BHWC Monthly Meeting: June 2023
BHWC Monthly Meeting: May 2023
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BHWC Monthly Meeting: May 2023
BHWC Monthly Meeting: April 2023
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BHWC Monthly Meeting: April 2023
BHWC Monthly Meeting: March 2023
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BHWC Monthly Meeting: March 2023
BHWC Monthly Meeting: February 2023
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BHWC Monthly Meeting: February 2023
BHWC Monthly Meeting: November 2022
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BHWC Monthly Meeting: November 2022
BHWC Monthly Meeting: October 2022
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BHWC Monthly Meeting: October 2022
Life in the Land: The Big Hole Valley
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Life in the Land: The Big Hole Valley
BHWC Monthly Meeting: September 2022
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BHWC Monthly Meeting: September 2022
BHWC Monthly Meeting: August 2022
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BHWC Monthly Meeting: August 2022
BHWC Monthly Meeting: May 2022
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BHWC Monthly Meeting: May 2022
MHP Water Rights Panel
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MHP Water Rights Panel
Wise River Stream Monitoring
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Wise River Stream Monitoring
BHWC Monthly Meeting: April 2022
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BHWC Monthly Meeting: April 2022

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  • @ThyCyclone
    @ThyCyclone หลายเดือนก่อน

    Follow the money. The shadowy mosquito lobby is pulling the puppet strings

  • @moshe1085
    @moshe1085 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is the Big Hole on sale.?

    • @BigHoleWatershedCommittee
      @BigHoleWatershedCommittee หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nobody is selling the river. Land values are making sub-division a real threat to the integrity of the river and the resource. We're selling the idea that collaboration can hold all the pieces together to improve the resource. Nobody else is doing it in the Big Hole.

    • @jriver64
      @jriver64 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BigHoleWatershedCommittee Please keep it like that. I respect for all that we have left in this great nation, after learning from all my years of living, there are people and organizations are out there for their own profit and gains and not for the best for our environment that we have to live in.

  • @moshe1085
    @moshe1085 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Are you selling the Big Hole. .

  • @justinrobertsendoftheage
    @justinrobertsendoftheage หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great keep up the good work. I we look after them they will take care of us big time. "The time has come to destroy them (people) that have destroyed the earth" oh these people in power in this babylon empire think they just push the little people around. This fallen country of UK and US is going under the sea. Flee into the mountains my saints before 57 weeks are fulfilled from now. and dont waste time and energy to worship the antichrist King William V get ure exodus bag and flee to the mountains for tevet 14th full moon, even to here in Snowdonia. in Jesus mighty name, Amen,

  • @justinrobertsendoftheage
    @justinrobertsendoftheage 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "The time has come to destroy them (people) that have destroyed the earth" oh these people in power in this babylon empire think they just push the little people around. This fallen country of UK and US is going under the sea. Flee into the mountains my saints before 57 weeks are fulfilled from now. and dont waste time and energy to worship the antichrist King William V get ure exodus bag and flee to the mountains for tevet 14th full moon, even to here in Snowdonia. in Jesus mighty name, Amen,

  • @janicegray511
    @janicegray511 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Loved this video

  • @colleeneggertson2117
    @colleeneggertson2117 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Impressive projects. Lovely to see the Trumpeter Swans, Sandhill Crane, Moose and other wildlife. Your efforts will pay off in biodiversity, flood prevention and mitigating drought.

  • @leadsled8961
    @leadsled8961 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    All you need is Beavers.

  • @exitar1
    @exitar1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bring in the Beavers!

  • @DT-wp4hk
    @DT-wp4hk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Chief Joseph. Joseph Stalin? Investing to preserving water is everywhere an issue it seems. Even the Dutch don't invest in water storage while it could be necessary in certain areas. The Germans had towns destroyed by floods and dam removal. They realize the Rhine is getting ruined by reducing side rivers. England seems to understand certain things much better by reshaping dead rivers. By the way. Aquifers. Cisterns.

  • @onisgagan2481
    @onisgagan2481 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Unfortunately it’s September 2024 and the rivers shut down due to lack of flow, not a section, the whole river…

  • @GaiaCarney
    @GaiaCarney 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great job!

  • @beingsneaky
    @beingsneaky 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Would be nice to see an update on this. Its been 4 years after all.

  • @AsharKoase
    @AsharKoase 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Short-sighted, foolish & greedy. GTFO

  • @sledge7583
    @sledge7583 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ohh California, big hole valley, hooked avenue. Maybe in your title you should let viewers know what state it's inn ?

    • @BigHoleWatershedCommittee
      @BigHoleWatershedCommittee 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The title is "Big Hole Valley: Connecting People and Place in Montana".

  • @jacopolavina9359
    @jacopolavina9359 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    👍🏼👍🏼

  • @ryanscott642
    @ryanscott642 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So much of the land appears to be denuded, likely for ranching. No wonder there's no water.

    • @BigHoleWatershedCommittee
      @BigHoleWatershedCommittee 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ranchers get a lot of blame for resource degradation and some of it is well-deserved depending on specific land management practices. But taking ranchers off the landscape, they'll likely be replaced by subdivision, septic systems and kentucky bluegrass. Cattle ceased using the area we restored because of how overstocked the forest is. Downed trees from a pine beetle outbreak make it really hard to access. The private ground downstream pastures cow/calf pairs and yes, pretty hammered. We installed over 100 beaver mimicry structures on their place to help charge up the groundwater. We attribute much of the depletion of water in the area to the overstocked forest that has not been managed well for decades. Its complicated.

  • @jonathanrossroberts
    @jonathanrossroberts 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very nice!

  • @monida55
    @monida55 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I applaud the efforts being featured here in the Big Hole, but the comment made at 04:05 asserting that all the beaver had been removed from these waterways by the time Lewis and Clark got there is ludicrous. Lewis and Clark returned to the east in 1806. In 1805 Francois Antoine Larocque a French Canadian working for the North West Company explored the Yellowstone River drainage mostly trying to establish relations with the local tribes in SE Montana. Not until David Thompson and others of the North West Company established posts west of the Divide near Libby and Thompson Falls in 1808 and 1809 respectively did fur trapping take off. Then from 1810 - 1840, additional fur companies like the Hudson's Bay Company, the American Fur Company and the Rocky Mountain Fur Company were instrumental in taking most of the beaver.

    • @BigHoleWatershedCommittee
      @BigHoleWatershedCommittee 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are totally correct! Its the one regret we have about this film. that was an overstatement. Hope you liked the rest of film and our attempts to reintroduce the function of the beaver to the landscape!

  • @OublietteTight
    @OublietteTight 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1000 thumbs up! Can you reintroduce beaver next?

    • @BigHoleWatershedCommittee
      @BigHoleWatershedCommittee 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The State is working on a plan to allow for beaver translocation. Currently not possible due to regs so we act like beaver until they take over!

  • @chugachocho
    @chugachocho 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where are the beavers 🦫☘️?

    • @BigHoleWatershedCommittee
      @BigHoleWatershedCommittee 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly! The beaver had left the area decades ago. Likely elk moved into their area and depleted their food supplies (willow, aspen) along with the forest encroaching on the aspen stands and shading them out. We simply plugged up the existing beaver dams in hopes to re-grow the riparian shrubs they need for food, and hopefully, one day, will bring them into the area to take over!

  • @koholohan3478
    @koholohan3478 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Time to pop in a bunch of willow, birch, aspen, etc cuttings and whips, then introduce beavers eventually. I suppose maybe they're still there and will move into these improved areas?

    • @BigHoleWatershedCommittee
      @BigHoleWatershedCommittee 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's the hope. We're trying to get the habitat set for beaver to want to move in. Or, when MT allows beaver relocation, we take some nuisance beaver up there to a new home!

  • @佐藤貴紀-j3u
    @佐藤貴紀-j3u 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    この草原で植林活動を行うべきです‼️

  • @RickC-138
    @RickC-138 ปีที่แล้ว

    “Battery dies”

  • @dan-h2g
    @dan-h2g ปีที่แล้ว

    Big egos did it.

  • @jayk.2276
    @jayk.2276 ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought Montana didn’t stock fish??

  • @petesteensen3392
    @petesteensen3392 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love staying and fishing this river

  • @TheNightwalker247
    @TheNightwalker247 ปีที่แล้ว

    One structure does this amazing effekt. Imagine if america had it's originsl beaver population back how much more water there would be year round

  • @Gfthce3426
    @Gfthce3426 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is so refreshing to hear the environmentalists using ranching as a tool too maintaining a healthy ecosystem.

  • @Tupunaforever
    @Tupunaforever ปีที่แล้ว

    pretty amazing

  • @gregknipe8772
    @gregknipe8772 ปีที่แล้ว

    stop trapping beaver.

  • @BertRowe-b3l
    @BertRowe-b3l ปีที่แล้ว

    Beaver re-introduction time! Beed to add some food trees by all those little dams.

  • @krakca
    @krakca ปีที่แล้ว

    How about just fencing off certain areas so trees can grow and not get digested by livestock and reintroduce beavers?

  • @jamesrollins4328
    @jamesrollins4328 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was looking forward to this video, but I have to say that I was quite disappointed. You missed the chance to provide narration that would have explained what we’re seeing and how it represents the improvement, and provide a vision of what the whole thing will look like in a few years (I know it’ll look better with time). For someone like me who is not familiar with the area or the way it looked pre-project, it may be difficult to visualize how what we’re seeing here consists of improvement. 1. Was the wiggly stream on the right previously straight and incised, but now slowed down with meanders? 2. Are the thin strips of water going right to left just the first stage of spreading water over the previous desolation? 3. Another commenter has already asked about what’s going on with all the matchstick trees. I applaud all the work and planning that went into this project, and concur with other commenters that a follow up would be great. I just think that by not providing history and context via narration, you diminished the impact of your video. Please keep up the good work.

    • @BigHoleWatershedCommittee
      @BigHoleWatershedCommittee ปีที่แล้ว

      You're totally right! This was one of our first videos from when we were just starting our TH-cam channel. Definitely a missed opportunity here. We will look into adding some narration and/or doing a follow up video. Thank you for your comment. (If you are interested in our work, check out some of our other videos. Some of them DO have narration.)

  • @russellringland1399
    @russellringland1399 ปีที่แล้ว

    Get the Beavers back on the land. Anything else is a huge waste of manpower and cash. They're just farting around if they're not bringing Beavers in to do the work.

    • @BigHoleWatershedCommittee
      @BigHoleWatershedCommittee 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Current Montana regs don’t allow moving beaver into an area. Hence our work. But we’re heading in that direction, setting the habitat up for them

    • @russellringland1399
      @russellringland1399 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BigHoleWatershedCommittee Can beavers walk over the border into Montana? Or do they have to check in with the DNR. I'm surprised the environmentalists don't have bigger balls out there. Bring them in and don't mess with the B.S. The destruction was quick. The restoration should also go quickly. Are you planting several thousand trees a year? B/C that's how many the beavers will need.

  • @relentlessmadman
    @relentlessmadman ปีที่แล้ว

    re-introduce real beaver???????????

  • @1voluntaryist
    @1voluntaryist ปีที่แล้ว

    It seems Non-Profits have been crippled by regulations. Why? Is this fearful state agencies that want job security, a monopoly? If they can stop restoration on private lands, private property rights are being violated. Is the fundamental problem political, e.g., authoritarianism? It is internationally. Is America infected? If so, I say stop it by "Striking at the Root of the Problem".

  • @41divad
    @41divad ปีที่แล้ว

    For years drainage in Calif was get the water into concrete and rid of eat. What a disaster. Now every project hss to hold some water... the more the better. Making progress

  • @warrenwalker8170
    @warrenwalker8170 ปีที่แล้ว

    beavers

  • @deepwaters2334
    @deepwaters2334 ปีที่แล้ว

    You see this a lot in Colorado, and it is beatiful!!!

  • @dundonrl
    @dundonrl ปีที่แล้ว

    Talk about holding back the water for later in the year, yet "environmentalist" want to remove the 4 lower dams on the Snake river that hold back FAR more water than all the beaver dams in Montana!

  • @moroteseoinage
    @moroteseoinage ปีที่แล้ว

    Conservation is for soy boy liberals

    • @Powerviolenc3
      @Powerviolenc3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No its not you sissy. conservatives needwater more than any soyboy city

  • @222Wanderlust
    @222Wanderlust ปีที่แล้ว

    How about reintroducing the beaver?

  • @burtlangoustine1
    @burtlangoustine1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Plant ancient grasses with long tap roots, this will fill the natural wells within the hillsides BENEATH the soils, halting drying out and draining-out of the topsoils. Re-introduce Beaver and stop playing God with all the tech and machinery. Its cheaper to let nature back-in, than use the digggers etc

  • @BrokefishN
    @BrokefishN ปีที่แล้ว

    Have you added beavers back into the mix yet? They are the masters of holding back water all we have to do is plant what they like to eat. and that's not just trees.

  • @ronstewart4545
    @ronstewart4545 ปีที่แล้ว

    The question is, where did the beaver go?

  • @normanzurich2781
    @normanzurich2781 ปีที่แล้ว

    Les pays les plus polluants au monde c’est les États Unis 🇺🇸 et la Chine 🇨🇳 Ensuite vient l’internet 😮😮😮

  • @toddfarthing8760
    @toddfarthing8760 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beavers!

  • @GotoHere
    @GotoHere ปีที่แล้ว

    The ranchers trapped and killed the beavers. They are the culprits in this environmental disaster.

  • @the_lost_navigator7266
    @the_lost_navigator7266 ปีที่แล้ว

    Projects like this are vital for our future. Well done.