Upper Oregon Creek Restoration

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 Richfield Company for damages and has been funding restoration and remediation of these lands for over a decade. BHWC has been managing this work since 2016, bringing in other partners to achieve multiple resource benefits for fish, wildlife and people.
Through this project, we improved water quality by reducing sediment loading from upland erosion, enhanced riparian habitat and vegetation conditions, and removed a fish passage barrier in the headwater reaches of Oregon Creek.
Learn more and support our life-giving work today at bhwc.org/#donate.
Film produced by Tom Attwater Media.
Project Funders, Partners, Contractors: BHWC, Montana DEQ, Montana NRDP, Trout and Salmon Foundation, Montana FWP, Watershed Consulting, Morrison-Maierle, Montana Conservation Corps.

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