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Under desperate circumstances, Butte-Silver Bow County is once again releasing Silver Lake water into Warm Springs Creek and the upper Clark Fork River.

National News Fewer osprey nesting along Upper Clark Fork River On July 8, three osprey chicks were abducted from their Warm Springs Pond nest by the Montana Osprey Project. by The Montana Standard Jul. 17 2021 @ 5:10pm Three osprey chicks rest in their nest located at Warm Springs just off Interstate 90, at the headwaters of the Clark Fork River near Warm Springs Ponds, Mont., Thursday, July 8, 2021. Erick Greene, a professor in wildlife biology at the University of Montana and the leader of t...

Strong feelings surfaced Tuesday night when people gathered in Deer Lodge to ponder the fate of the Clark Fork River.

The greening field near Warm Springs looks like a giant mole has burrowed through, leaving tall heaps of soil in its wake.

Listen • 1:23 A massive front end loader deposits the first shovels of dirt removed from the Parrot tailings site into a dump truck at the old ball field behind the Civic Center in Butte, June 2018. A major mine waste cleanup in central Butte is entering a new phase of tailings removal in February. After years of debate on how to handle the heaps of mine waste just outside the city’s civic center, work began on the Parrot Tailings in 2018. The waste was left behind by a...

MILLTOWN — An immovable object theoretically offsets an irresistible force, but in life, the force usually wins. So appears the status of two concrete bridge piers constricting the mouth the Blackfoot River that have resisted more than a decade of efforts to remove them along with other manufactured hazards at its confluence with the Clark Fork River. Last week, Montana environmental and transportation officials announced a breakthrough that should finally get those blocks out of the wa...