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BHWC Publications and Studies

Big Hole River Drought Plans
  • Big Hole River Current Conditions Map
  • Big Hole River Drought Management Plan (Est. 1997, Current version: 2024)
  • Big Hole River Drought Resiliency Plan (2019)
Big Hole River Watershed Restoration Plans

Strategic plans for non-point source water quality improvement, following results of studies, prioritizations and TMDLs.

  • Middle-Lower Big Hole River Watershed Restoration Plan (2013)
  • Upper and North Fork Big Hole River Watershed Restoration Plan (2012)
Big Hole River Studies & Resources 

Studies, analyses, and prioritizations

  • Lower Wise River Water Resources Investigation (2013)
  • Big Hole River Trend Analysis (2013)
  • Lower Big Hole River Corridor Assessment (2012)
  • Lower Wise River Assessment Survey and Prioritization (2010)
  • Big Hole River Thermal Infrared (TIR) Temperature Analysis Interpretive Report (2010)
  • Middle and Lower Big Hole Planning Area TMDLs and Water Quality Improvement Plan (2009)
  • Upper and North Fork Big Hole River Planning Area TMDLs and Framework Water Quality Restoration Approach (2008)
  • Ground Water and Surface Water in a Study Area within the Upper Big Hole River Basin (2008)
  • Lower Big Hole Irrigation Infrastructure Survey and Prioritization (2008)
  • Vegetation Change and Impacts to the Annual Water Budget Big Hole River (2006)
  • Reservoir Storage Alternatives Report (2005)
  • Water Management Alternatives Report (2005)
  • Flood Innundation Potential Mapping and Channel Migration Zone Delineation – Big Hole River, Montana (2005)
  • Lower Wise River Corridor Assessment (2003)

Other Big Hole River Resources

  • Beaverhead and Big Hole River Recreation Rules (2016)
  • Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks: Waterbody Details – Big Hole River
  • Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks: Current Restrictions and Closures Map
  • Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks: Arctic Grayling Conservation
  • Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks: Trout Management in Southwest Montana
  • Sunrise Fly Shop: Big Hole River Fly Fishing Access
  • United States Forest Service: Big Hole Land Management Areas

Big Hole Area Press

  • International Business Times: Ripples of Change: The Impactful Work of the Big Hole Watershed Committee (2024)
  • Explore Big Sky: Preventing the Tragedy of the Commons in the Big Hole (2024)
  • Tom Attwater Media: The Big Hole Valley is a Big Deal (2023, video)
  • Montana Standard: Reversing the Smelter’s Smackdown in Anaconda Uplands (2023)
  • Stories for Action: Life in the Land: The Big Hole Valley (2023, video/podcasts)
  • Montana Standard Guest View: Tana Nulph: Montana is Big Enough for Ranching AND Grizzlies (2023)
  • Montana Standard: River in Peril (2022)
  • Montana Standard Guest View: Pedro Marques: A Culture of Collaborative Conservation (2021)
  • FilmWest: Holding Back the Snowpack (video, 2020)
  • Montana Standard: ‘This is Montana’: Big Hole Country (2020)
  • Montana Outdoors: Give a Big Hand for the Big Hole (2020)
  • People and Carnivores: Ranching with Wolves in the Big Hole Valley (2017, video)

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P.O. Box 21
Divide, MT 59727-0021
(406) 960-4855

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