Clark Fork Coalition

Clark Fork Coalition The Coalition believes that community vitality and watershed health are inextricably linked.

Founded in 1985, the Clark Fork Coalition protects and restores the Clark Fork River—Montana's largest river by volume—and its tributaries, employing science-backed strategies to protect the best and restore the rest. Founded in 1985, the Clark Fork Coalition is dedicated to protecting and restoring the Clark Fork River watershed, a 22,000-square-mile area draining western Montana and northern Ida

ho. Driven by this organizing principle, we build diverse partnerships using a science-based, community-focused approach.

📣🏔️Calling all Missoulians—share your opinions on tourism impacts!Destination Missoula (Visit Missoula!), Missoula's des...
05/27/2026

📣🏔️Calling all Missoulians—share your opinions on tourism impacts!

Destination Missoula (Visit Missoula!), Missoula's destination marketing organization, is conducting their annual survey gauging how residents feel about tourism in our community—its benefits, impacts, challenges and opportunities. Released in an annual report by UM's Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research (ITRR), this data offers valuable insight into the perspectives of everyday Missoulians and helps inform local planning decisions that aim to balance area tourism and recreation with quality of life for residents and ecosystems. (Past reports are available on ITRR's website—link in comments.)

Thank you in advance for adding your voice to this important community temp check! 🙌

Click here to take the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MissoulaResidentSurvey26

Join us for an evening of films exploring the challenges, science, and stewardship shaping the future of water across Mo...
05/22/2026

Join us for an evening of films exploring the challenges, science, and stewardship shaping the future of water across Montana.

The Water Keepers and Stories of Water Across the Landscape brings together three short films highlighting Tribal water rights, stream restoration, and collaborative efforts to protect native fish populations in western Montana — all centered around the people and partnerships working to keep our rivers healthy and connected.

🎬 Featuring:
• The Water Keepers
• Restoring Resiliency: The Miller Creek Story
• A Life Saving Fish Screen for Lolo Creek

A Q&A with filmmakers and producers will follow the screening.

📍 The Roxy Theater — Missoula
🗓 Tuesday, June 2
🕢 7:30 PM

Ticket information available through The Roxy Theater: https://www.theroxytheater.org/show/the-water-keepers-and-stories-of-water-across-the-landscape/

🦞🎟️ Crayfish, cold beer, live music… and raffle prizes worth talking about.This year’s Cray Cray for the Clark Fork! ra...
05/21/2026

🦞🎟️ Crayfish, cold beer, live music… and raffle prizes worth talking about.

This year’s Cray Cray for the Clark Fork! raffle features TWO adventure-ready prizes from FLATED:

🪑 A FLATED® Air-Exec Corvette Compact Seat & Table Set
🚙 A FLATED® Air-Carrier® Large

Raffle tickets start at $10, with discounted multi-ticket bundles available.

Not a bad way to kick off summer: boiled crayfish, a cold local brew, live music from Moneypenny-Missoula,MT, and the chance to head home with some seriously nice new gear. Cray Cray for the Clark Fork! hits Myrtle Street Taphouse on Saturday, May 30.

⚠️ Must be 18+ to purchase raffle tickets. Full raffle terms and ticket information: https://clarkfork.org/event/2026cray-cray-for-the-clark-fork/

05/20/2026

In case you weren't able to join Montana Environmental Information Center - MEIC and partners last night in Missoula for their panel discussion about the data centers being proposed in Montana (including one in Bonner), the recording is now available, thanks to Missoula's Community Media Resource!

Date: Tuesday, May 19
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: University Center Theatre, (32 Campus Dr – third floor of the UC)
Panelists:
- Anne Hedges, Montana Environmental Information Center
- Barbara Chilcott, Western Environmental Law Center
- Amy Cilimburg, Climate Smart Missoula
Moderator: Derek Goldman, NW Energy Coalition
This event is hosted by MEIC and sponsored by Western Environmental Law Center (WELC), Climate Smart Missoula, NW Energy Coalition, and the University of Montana’s Office of Sustainability.

As you may have heard, the State of Montana recently updated its fish consumption advisory for some water bodies based o...
05/08/2026

As you may have heard, the State of Montana recently updated its fish consumption advisory for some water bodies based on new data confirming the presence of PFAS in fish tissue. PFAS are a class of chemicals linked to cancers and other serious health risks. The State's testing found PFAS in fish tissue, and the new advisory adds PFAS to the list of contaminants found in fish in the Clark Fork River. However, the overall picture of where fish should be avoided hasn't changed much.

For those who like to keep fish caught in the Clark Fork River, the takeaways are:

👉 Everyone should avoid eating any fish caught in the Clark Fork River from its confluence with the Bitterroot River downstream to the confluence with the Flathead River.

👉 Women of child-bearing age and children should avoid eating rainbow trout in the Clark Fork River between its confluence with the Blackfoot and its confluence with the Bitterroot.

👉 Upstream of the Blackfoot, it is recommended that individuals limit the number of fish they eat from the Clark Fork River.

For more details, read the full updated Montana Sportfish Consumption Guidelines found here: https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/fish/montana-sport-fish-consumption-guidelines-final-4.21.26.pdf.

For more information on PFAS and fish consumption in Montana, read Amanda Eggert's piece in the Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2026/05/06/are-fort-peck-reservoir-fish-too-polluted-to-eat/

A lot of what goes into restoration happens after the big equipment leaves.Out at Fifer Gulch near Anaconda, final touch...
05/08/2026

A lot of what goes into restoration happens after the big equipment leaves.

Out at Fifer Gulch near Anaconda, final touches have gone in—including seeding along the newly restored stream and wetland areas. Last week, CFC’s Restoration Project Manager, Gretchen Watkins, was out on-site hand-spreading a riparian seed mix along the banks. The larger-seeded species in this mix can’t be run through a standard broadcast spreader, so they’re placed by hand for more accurate coverage in the wetter, more variable soils along the channel.

Our Big Sky Watershed Corps Member, Zoe Transtrum, was also on-site using a broadcast spreader for the smaller upland seed mix, helping cover the larger areas surrounding the stream channel.

Together, these seed mixes include floodplain-adapted bunch grasses and species like western yarrow, which supports pollinators and does well in streamside conditions. It’s a small but important step in stabilizing soils and helping vegetation take hold across the site.

This project—led by the George Grant Chapter of Trout Unlimited —re-meandered Fifer Gulch and a nearby spring creek, reconnected the floodplain, and created new wetland and fish habitat just outside of town. Over the past few months, staff and volunteers also collected and planted more than 10,000 willows to help anchor it all in place.

This community showed up for the Clark Fork watershed during Missoula & Bitterroot Gives—and that support translates int...
05/02/2026

This community showed up for the Clark Fork watershed during Missoula & Bitterroot Gives—and that support translates into very real work on the ground.

Restoring streambanks. Reconnecting habitat. Securing water in tributaries. Defending clean water protections so they remain in place for the long haul.

It’s not abstract—and it’s not finished.

Thank you for being part of it.

Didn’t get a chance to donate? You still can: https://www.missoulagives.org/organizations/clark-fork-coalition

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140 S 4th Street W Ste 1
Missoula, MT
59801

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