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	The Blackfoot River in Montana : Fly Fishing and Overview
		The rivers close proximity to Missoula, which is part of the fastest growing region of the state, has also led to an increased use of the river.
		The Blackfoot River, for more than 30 miles on the lower stretch of the river, flows through the "Blackfoot River Recreation Corridor." This corridor is a cooperative land agreement between FWP and the private landowners along the river, which has allowed for excellent access to the river while reducing the impact from its heavy use.
		The Blackfoot River begins along the continental divide in the mountains outside Lincoln, and flows through scenic and diverse countryside for 130 miles before its confluence with the Clark Fork near the town of Bonner.
	www.bigskyfishing.com /River-Fishing/SW-MT-Rivers/blackfoot-river/blackfoot_overview.htm (678 words)

	Fishing Montana's Blackfoot River
		The Blackfoot River, one of twelve renowned “Blue Ribbon” rivers in Montana and a major tributary of the Clark Fork of the Columbia River, begins at the junction of Beartrap and Anaconda creeks near the Continental Divide.
		The Blackfoot River Trout Restoration Initiative focuses on the recovery of native fish species, and depends on cooperating agencies, watershed groups, and landowners to protect the river's many resources and uses.
		Fishing the Blackfoot: The Blackfoot is an excellent fishery for rainbow, cutbows, browns and mountain whitefish throughout its length.
	www.anglerguide.com /montana/blackfoot.html (855 words)

	Little Blackfoot River Retreat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The retreat was built on the river, on 20 acres of secluded, private property.
		The Little Blackfoot River is open to fishing year-round and locates the fly fisherman close to several Blue Ribbon trout fisheries.
		Situated roughly mid-way between Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, the Little Blackfoot River Retreat is just half an hour by car from the state capitol of Helena, at the western foot of MacDonald Pass along the Continental Divide.
	www.visitmt.com /categories/moreinfo.asp?IDRRecordID=12648&siteid=1 (397 words)

	Sustainability in Action: the Blackfoot River Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		BLACKFOOT, Idaho -- At the Sleepy Valley Ranch, the health of the Blackfoot River watershed is a priority.
		The Blackfoot River project is one of the most important stories CNR tells in elucidating its vision for a "new West." Though the story begins with the Reids' environmental consciousness, it ends in a place with far more significant consequences.
		To protect the entire Blackfoot watershed, they have endeavored to include their neighbors: the rest of the membership of the East Idaho Grazing Association, the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe (much of the watershed is on the Fort Hall reservation), the community of Blackfoot, and state and federal agencies.
	www.gallatin.org /pub/GI.RW96.Clayton2.html (879 words)

	Blackfoot River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Blackfoot Valley provides habitat for a wide variety of plants and animals including grizzly bears, bighorn sheep, moose, elk, osprey, bald eagles, pileated woodpeckers, and neotropical migrant songbirds.
		It is believed that most of the use of this area consisted of summertime hunting camps and as a travelway between the Great Plains and lands to the west of the Continential Divide.
		The primary highway travel route is Highway 200 that follows the Blackfoot River through the small community of Lincoln and continues up and over the Continental Divide over Rogers Pass.
	www.visitmt.com /categories/moreinfo.asp?IDRRecordID=11636&siteid=1 (306 words)

	Blackfoot River and Tributaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The river upstream from the reservoir extends 35 miles to its origin at the confluence of Lane and Diamond creeks.
		Trout population in Blackfoot Reservoir varies from 46% to 80% hatchery rainbow, with the balance being composed of hatchery Bear Lake and Wild Yellowstone cutthroat.
		The Blackfoot River, its tributaries, and the Blackfoot Reservoir serve integral roles in the life history and ecology of wild cutthroat trout.
	imnh.isu.edu /digitalatlas/geog/fishery/drainage/drain27.htm (228 words)

	Blackfoot Challenge Montana Partners for Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Blackfoot Challenge is a "grass roots" group which has organized to coordinate management of the Blackfoot River, its tributaries, and adjacent lands.
		The mission of the Blackfoot Challenge is to coordinate efforts that will enhance, conserve and protect the natural resources and rural lifestyle of the Blackfoot River Valley for present and future generations.
		The Blackfoot Challenge was formally chartered in 1993, though active concern for the valley predates the charter.
	www.r6.fws.gov /pfw/montana/mt6.htm (1079 words)

	Fly Fishing the Blackfoot River in Montana
		The Blackfoot River, located just outside Missoula in Western Montana, is well known for its outstanding diversity of water, beautiful scenery, and quality trout.
		Rainbow, brown, cutthroat, and the endangered bull trout are all found in the Blackfoot River.
		Access to the Blackfoot can be found at one of the many bridge crossings, along side roads, and in the Blackfoot River Recreation Corridor.
	www.flyfishingconnection.com /blackfoot.html (666 words)

	Blackfoot River Home - Ovando, Montana
		The Blackfoot Valley is truly one of the most highly sought after locations in the Northern Rockies.
		The river corridor is heavily vegetated and timbered with cottonwoods and conifers.
		The Blackfoot River Home is a turn-key luxury home set amidst a wildlife paradise in one of the most desirable valleys of Montana.
	www.hallhall.com /ranches/mt/blackfoot_river_home.html (1029 words)

	Big Blackfoot River
		n ancient times, the Blackfoot River Canyon was used by the Bitterroot Salish Indians from the Bitterroot Valley and the Nez Perce Indians from the Weippe Prairie in Idaho as a travel way in the fall to hunt the buffalo east of the Continental Divide.
		The North Fork of the Blackfoot River, draining the south portion of the Scapegoat Wilderness in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, is essentially a mountain wilderness river of deep canyons and high peaks.
		The river’s classification through the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program is B-1, meaning suitable for cold water fishery as well as useful for household, wildlife, irrigation and recreation uses.
	www.montanariveraction.org /big.blackfoot.river.html (1238 words)

	The Nature Conservancy - Conservation Land Deal, Wildlife Conservation Preservation of Wildlife
		The Blackfoot Valley was carved by glaciers which extended from the high peaks to the valley floor, grinding and sculpting as they moved.
		This river of priceless grace and beauty is the one that Merriwether Lewis traveled on his return during his journey of discovery.
		This historic purchase will help to protect the Blackfoot River Valley for future generations and preserve the rural ranching character of the valley.
	www.nature.org /success/blackfootriver.html (281 words)

	Big Blackfoot Trout Unlimited and the Montana Partners for Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Blackfoot River, located in west-central Montana, flows 132 miles westerly from its source near the Continental Divide to its confluence with the Clark Fork River at Bonner, Montana.
		The mission of the Big Blackfoot Chapter of Trout Unlimited is to restore and preserve the cold water fishery of the Blackfoot River and its tributaries.
		The distribution of rainbow trout in the Blackfoot River drainage is limited to the lower river and lower reaches of tributaries to the lower river.
	montanapartners.fws.gov /mt5b.htm (1329 words)

	Montana's Blackfoot River, flyfishing trips and vacations
		Brought to national flyfishing attention by "A River Runs Through It", the Blackfoot River is one of the prettiest trout streams you will ever see.
		It is a rough, varied river with many boulder-strewn rapids, canyon stretches, big beautiful pools, and a variety of wild trout.
		The river is very well managed and the fishing has improved greatly over the last decade.
	www.tomjenni.com /blackfoot1.htm (138 words)

	Gold in Montana Hills May Not Be In the Ground (washingtonpost.com)
		Montana voters approved an initiative six years ago that was to have forever protected the Blackfoot from a proposed cyanide open-pit gold mine near the river's headwaters.
		"This mine on the Blackfoot is threatening the very future of Montana," said Jay D. Proops, a retired multimillionaire from Chicago and a river-loving newcomer who in 1996 bought an enormous cattle ranch that runs for six miles along the banks of the Blackfoot.
		At the proposed mine on the Blackfoot, gold would be extracted from 537 million tons of low-grade ore and treated with cyanide, a poison that, in theory, is kept out of surface and groundwater by using large plastic liners.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A62434-2004Sep4.html (707 words)

	Montana Fishing Report: Madison River
		Had good reports on some hopper fishing up higher around Lyons to Mac, the stuff down near town has been really hit or miss, some good days, some terrible days, guess that's pretty typical for August in Montana after the summer we have had.
		River remains in good shape, up high around 3 Dollar and Slide wade fishing has been productive with caddis larvae and mayfly nymphs of sorts, not much hatch activity though.
		Between the lakes has been good and consistent, as always, red is the ticket (I think I've said this before...) So for the weekend, hopefully the river levels will stay steady.
	www.anglerguide.com /montana (199 words)

	Blackfoot River by John Herzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Affording both wading and floating angler opportunity for nearly sixty miles, the Big Blackfoot river is as diverse as the Montana landscape it shapes.
		All but the final ten miles of the Big Blackfoot are tucked away from busy roadways and housing developments, astonishing seclusion in light of its proximity to Montana's third largest population center.
		The river is gin clear and at minimum flow as significant hatches rebound, including the giant orange sedge (October caddis).
	www.glaciertoyellowstone.com /fly_fishing_montana/western/blackfoot.cfm (918 words)

	Little Blackfoot River Retreat
		Little Blackfoot River Retreat is situated with the Little Blackfoot River just outside the window and within minutes of some of North America's best backcountry recreation, this is a peaceful place -- warm and relaxing.
		The retreat was built on the river, on 20 acres of secluded, private property.
		The Little Blackfoot River is open to fishing year-round and locates the fly fisherman close to several Blue Ribbon trout fisheries.
	wintermt.com /categories/moreinfo.asp?IDRRecordID=12648&SiteID=11 (394 words)

	Blackfoot River Anglers Asked To Limit Fishing - News - FWP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Anglers are being asked to limit fishing on the mainstem Blackfoot River to morning-only and to cease all fishing in important bull trout tributaries.
		By limiting fishing to morning-only on the mainstem Blackfoot River, caught and released fish will have a better survival rate because water temperatures are cooler in the morning.
		Saffel says, “It’s time to ask all anglers to limit their fishing to morning-only on the mainstem of the Blackfoot River and to not fish the critical bull trout tributaries.” According to Saffel, “For the next month, river conditions will be monitored closely.
	www.fwp.state.mt.us /news/article_3060.aspx (384 words)

	Blackfoor River Brewing: Beers
		This classic German-style Helles Bock is brewed from imported German and Belgian malts and hopped with German Hallertauer.
		Available from November 1 through March 15 each year, Blackfoot Pale Bock is light amber in color, smooth and malty and packs a punch at 7.2% alcohol by volume.
		Blackfoot Oktoberfest is released in mid-September and is available for just a few weeks.
	www.blackfootriverbrewing.com /beers.html (470 words)

	The Independent Online - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		If rivers can be called the arteries of a land, the Blackfoot River is the aorta of Western Montana.
		This isn’t the first river in the area to be permitted: Outfitters must be permitted on the Clark Fork’s Alberton Gorge, and in central Montana the Smith River requires both outfitters and private citizens to obtain permits.
		Blackfoot River Outfitters Inc. owner John Herzer, a member of the Blackfoot Recreation Steering Committee that helped develop the proposed rules, agrees.
	www.missoulanews.com /News/News.asp?no=4655 (1043 words)

	Gray's Sporting Journal \| Expeditions: A Reborn River Runs Through It
		The importance of its rehabilitation is much more than aesthetic to Roos: the creek is a tributary to the Blackfoot River, among the holiest of all American trout water and a river that Roos has spent the last 30 years fighting for.
		But by the early 1990s the Blackfoot was in such bad shape—its valley scarred by ugly clearcuts, its tributaries poisoned and turned orange with acid goldmine runoff—that the movie was filmed on rivers to the south.
		At the river’s edge, we pile ourselves and the gear into a baby-blue inflatable raft, outfitted for fishing with seats and oars and plenty of storage space, and shove off into a river whose riffles wink in the sunlight and empty into deep, aqua-green pools.
	www.grayssportingjournal.com /stories/020304/exped_ariver.shtml (2342 words)

	Blackfoot River Outfitters, Inc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		At Blackfoot River Outfitters, we understand that a day of fishing is about more than catching fish.
		Blackfoot River Outfitters, owned and operated by John Herzer and Terri Raugland, is a full service fishing outfitting company, based out of Missoula, Montana.
		Blackfoot River Outfitters has an office located in Kesel's Fly Shop based out of Missoula Montana.
	visitmt.com /categories/moreinfo.asp?IDRRecordID=12164&SiteID=1 (387 words)

	Montana - Blackfoot River Heralded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Blackfoot River Project heralded as one of 25 deals that led the way
		The law was passed in 1975, and the next year the Conservancy accepted a gift of the state’s first easement along the Blackfoot: 1,800 acres from Edna Brunner.
		Twenty-nine years later, the Conservancy has worked collaboratively with the Blackfoot Challenge, a watershed collaborative, as well as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife and many public and private groups in the Blackfoot to secure conservation easements on thousands of acres in the watershed.
	nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/montana/news/news478.html (237 words)

	Blackfoot River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The river was exceptionally high and muddy because of runoff.
		At one point, the river was straight, rocky, with no pools or ripples.
		We headed to the Blackfoot corridor to see if the fish were biting there.
	www.trailstotrout.com /fishing/blakfoot.html (1082 words)

	Blackfoot River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Blackfoot is primarily a rainbow trout river, but the occasional brown and cutthroat will be caught.
		The Blackfoot is protected over by a watchdog group called "The Clark Fork Coalition" they are constantly battling to save this precious resource from Mining and Timber interests.
		This is the river that came to fame in the Robert Redford movie "A River Runs Through It" from Norman Maclean's classic autobiography.
	www.worleybuggerflyco.com /montanaflyfish/blackfoot_river.htm (237 words)

	Bingham County High Point Trip Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Turned right onto Blackfoot River Road (which soon becomes gravel) and kept right at a "Y" at 24.8.
		Blackfoot River Road is suitable for passenger sedans; after that the driving required high clearance and probably 4WD.
		I allowed them to go first, so they wouldn't need to be in my dust, and noticed that they returned to a farm/ranch house on Wolverine Road just west of the Blackfoot River Road junction (about 200 yards from the junction; look for a red mailbox at the bottom of a long driveway heading north).
	www.cohp.org /id/Bingham_1.html (449 words)

	Blackfoot River - Montana's Gold West Country Travel Region
		The Blackfoot Valley provides habitat for a wide variety of plants and animals including grizzly bears, bighorn sheep, moose, elk, osprey, bald eagles, pileated woodpeckers, and neotropical migrant songbirds.
		This latter use was well documented in historic times, when a portion of the Corps of Discovery, under the leadership of Meriwether Lewis, traveled through the Blackfoot Valley and crossed the divide at the head of Alice Creek on their return trip.
		The primary highway travel route is Highway 200 that follows the Blackfoot River through the small community of Lincoln and continues up and over the Continental Divide over Rogers Pass.
	goldwest.visitmt.com /listings/11636.htm (360 words)

	Missoulian: State requests voluntary Blackfoot River fishing restrictions
		State officials are asking anglers to voluntarily limit their fishing on the Blackfoot River and its tributaries because of low flows and high water temperatures that are harmful to fish.
		Anglers are being asked to limit fishing on the main Blackfoot River to morning hours only and to cease all fishing in important bull trout tributaries.
		The bull trout tributaries are Gold, Belmont, Cottonwood, Copper and Monture creeks, and the North Fork and Landers Fork of the Blackfoot.
	www.missoulian.com /articles/2004/08/13/news/local/news05.txt (541 words)

	Blackfoot, Idaho, Outdoors Recreation
		Blackfoot River, Idaho, Trail Creek Bridge to Cedar Creek Close to Aldridge, 29 miles away, class IV, 8 miles long.
		Blackfoot River, Idaho, Cutthroat Trout Campground to Trail Creek Bridge, 36 miles away, class II, 12 miles long.
		Blackfoot River, Idaho, Blackfoot Dam to Cutthroat Creek Campground, 43 miles away, class III, 10 miles long.
	www.hikercentral.com /metros/13940.html (997 words)

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