Local TU chapter hears FWP plans to improve Kootenai River
Kootenai River Trout Club Trout Unlimited Chapter members heard from officials of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and U.S. Army Corps during their May meeting at River Bend Restaurant. Pictured from left are USAC Fisheries Biologist Gregory Hoffman, past chapter President Mike Rooney, outfitter Tim Linehan, FWP Fisheries Biologist Jim Dunnigan and outfitter Dave Blackburn. The chapter elected TU member Alan Gerstenecker as president during its meeting. (Courtesy photo)
Twenty-eight anglers, river guides, fisheries biologists and hydrologists gathered at the River Bend Restaurant recently for the Kootenai River Trout Club’s chapter of Trout Unlimited to hear plans to improve both water quality and habitat along the Kootenai River.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Fisheries Biologist Jim Dunnigan explained the agency’s five-year plan
to improve water quality – providing a more balanced chemistry – for the Kootenai River with goals to
increase phosphorus levels to counter the increased nitrates as a result of open-pit mine blasting from
coal mines in British Columbia...
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