O’BRIEN CREEK MEADOWS STREAM RESTORATION ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
Apr 3, 2023 8:08 AM
Fisheries Division
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks released an Environmental Assessment for a project on O’Brien Creek, located in Missoula (Missoula County). In the affected section of O’Brien Creek, habitat was degraded by historical removal of wood from the stream, straightening of the creek due to road construction, and an undersized culvert. The Future Fisheries Improvement Program would provide funding to a project that proposes to address all of these issues by adding large woody debris habitat structures, restoring the creek to a new channel and floodplain, installing riparian plantings, and replacing the current culvert with a 20-ft open precast span culvert at the road crossing. The overall goal is to increase wild and native trout populations in the O’Brien Creek and Bitterroot River watersheds.
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Public Comment Opportunity
Deadline: Comments are due by 5:00 PM on April 18, 2023.
Written comments can be mailed to:
Montana FWP Fish Habitat Bureau
Attn: Future Fisheries Improvement Program
1420 E Sixth Ave., P.O. Box 200701
Helena, MT 59620
Emailed comments can be sent to FWPFFIP@mt.gov; please use subject: O’Brien Creek EA.
Phone comments can be directed to:
Future Fisheries Coordinator at 406-444-2432