Montana's Comprehensive Fish and Wildlife Conservation Action Plan, fueled since 2000 by $9.6 million in federal State Wildlife Grant money and more than $6.35 million in matching funds, aids Montana's fish, wildlife and wild habitats most in need of conservation.
The Big Hole Valley
Big Hole Valley Habitat & Wildlife Restoration
Since 2003, the following improvements have been made:
- More than 25 miles of the Big Hole River restored.
- 120 miles of riparian fence installed.
- 48 stock water improvements.
- 100 irrigation system improvements.
- Fish ladders and screens installed.
Today Arctic grayling, the last river-dwelling population of this fish in the lower 48 states, enjoy a more secure, healthy environment.
A richer riparian system provides for a greater diversity of birds for bird species from warblers to bald eagles as well as increased native aquatic insects.
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Statewide Action Plan and Projects
Montana's Comprehensive Fish and Wildlife Conservation Strategy is an exhaustive analysis of more than 600 species of birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, crayfish and mussels, the places they live, and an action plan to help conserve them.
Other SWG Accomplishments
Learn more about other critical work funded by federal SWG dollars and matched by state and other funding sources:
- Trumpeter Swans populate the Blackfoot Valley
- Prairie Fish Surveys
- Statewide Species Diversity Monitoring
Movies
These are some of the species identified in Montana’s Comprehensive Fish and Wildlife Conservation Strategy as most in need of conservation. Click below to see them in action.
