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Big Hole Watershed Committee
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 3 เม.ย. 2017
The Big Hole Watershed Committee is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to conservation of the Big Hole River watershed (SW Montana) and its resources. Our diverse stakeholders find consensus to foster sustainability through education, management, and restoration of our Big Hole River Valley. BHWC was formed in 1995 to address community concerns related to water supply and Arctic grayling; we published the State's first voluntary Drought Management Plan in 1997.
Our river flows free for its entire 156 miles, surrounded by high, craggy Rocky Mountain peaks of the Continental Divide. It’s a stronghold of traditional cattle ranching, rural communities, and expansive public lands. Montana is wild and remote here. Nearly 2,000 residents call the Big Hole valley home, spread among its 2 million acres.
We created this channel to share some of our breathtaking scenery, innovative restoration techniques, and fun community events. For more information, visit our website: bhwc.org.
Our river flows free for its entire 156 miles, surrounded by high, craggy Rocky Mountain peaks of the Continental Divide. It’s a stronghold of traditional cattle ranching, rural communities, and expansive public lands. Montana is wild and remote here. Nearly 2,000 residents call the Big Hole valley home, spread among its 2 million acres.
We created this channel to share some of our breathtaking scenery, innovative restoration techniques, and fun community events. For more information, visit our website: bhwc.org.
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.
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...
Follow the money. The shadowy mosquito lobby is pulling the puppet strings
Is the Big Hole on sale.?
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.
@@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.
Are you selling the Big Hole. .
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,
"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,
Loved this video
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.
All you need is Beavers.
Bring in the Beavers!
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.
Unfortunately it’s September 2024 and the rivers shut down due to lack of flow, not a section, the whole river…
Great job!
Would be nice to see an update on this. Its been 4 years after all.
Short-sighted, foolish & greedy. GTFO
Ohh California, big hole valley, hooked avenue. Maybe in your title you should let viewers know what state it's inn ?
The title is "Big Hole Valley: Connecting People and Place in Montana".
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So much of the land appears to be denuded, likely for ranching. No wonder there's no water.
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.
Very nice!
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.
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!
1000 thumbs up! Can you reintroduce beaver next?
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!
Where are the beavers 🦫☘️?
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!
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?
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!
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“Battery dies”
Big egos did it.
I thought Montana didn’t stock fish??
I love staying and fishing this river
Not me. FOff
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
This is so refreshing to hear the environmentalists using ranching as a tool too maintaining a healthy ecosystem.
pretty amazing
stop trapping beaver.
Beaver re-introduction time! Beed to add some food trees by all those little dams.
How about just fencing off certain areas so trees can grow and not get digested by livestock and reintroduce beavers?
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.
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.)
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.
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
@@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.
re-introduce real beaver???????????
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".
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
beavers
You see this a lot in Colorado, and it is beatiful!!!
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!
Conservation is for soy boy liberals
No its not you sissy. conservatives needwater more than any soyboy city
How about reintroducing the beaver?
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
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.
The question is, where did the beaver go?
Les pays les plus polluants au monde c’est les États Unis 🇺🇸 et la Chine 🇨🇳 Ensuite vient l’internet 😮😮😮
Beavers!
The ranchers trapped and killed the beavers. They are the culprits in this environmental disaster.
Projects like this are vital for our future. Well done.