Following a warm, dry spring and early summer that hammered the winter snowpack, Montana’s rivers are already showing signs ...

Brian Wheeler, director of Save Wild Trout, recently documented extensive algae blooms on the Big Hole, Jefferson and Boulder ...

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Flows on the Big Hole River are well below normal due to hot temperatures, rapid snowmelt and meager precipitation. The low flows could lead to fishing restrictions earlier than usual.

On Feb. 13, the Upper Missouri Waterkeeper and Big Hole River Foundation submitted a petition to DEQ, seeking an impairment designation for the river tied to nutrients pollution.

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality has rejected a petition filed by two river advocacy groups seeking an impairment designation for the Big Hole River tied to nutrients pollution.

Brian Wheeler, executive director of the Big Hole River Foundation, walks out into the Big Hole River in August 2023 carrying a water quality sampling kit. He has conducted water quality ...

Two river watchdog groups insist the Big Hole River needs a pollution fix and have called on the state’s environmental agency to make that happen. The Upper Missouri Waterkeeper and the Big Hole ...

Brian Wheeler, who has been the executive director of the Big Hole River Foundation, fills a container while collecting water quality samples on the Big Hole River in August 2023.

Two conservation groups are petitioning the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to designate the Big Hole River, a treasured southwestern Montana fishery, as impaired for nutrient pollution.