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Partnering for Conservation
A Conservation Partnership…
– Mining Companies• Monsanto
• Simplot
• Agrium Nu-West
– Conservation Groups• Trout Unlimited
• Idaho Conservation League
…that works to improve water quality and the fishery in the Upper Blackfoot River and its tributaries
The Upper Blackfoot Confluence
Formed in Fall, 2011
• Build on common interest in enhancing the Upper Blackfoot
• Do work outside of mining sites
• Beyond what is required of mining companies by regulation
• Everyone reserves right to disagree on other issues in other fora
• Trout Unlimited assessment in Fall, 2011 & Winter, 2012
A Rapid Start and Quick Success
Restoration
Complex
Limiting factors Conservation
Objective
Strategies
Main stem
Blackfoot
River
Water quality
Habitat
fragmentation
Improve migratory
corridor for adfluvial
YCT and habitat for
fluvial life forms.
Riparian restoration
Channel restoration
Barrier removal or
modification
Slug/Trail/
Dry Valley
Creeks
Water quality
Loss of riparian
habitat
Habitat
fragmentation
Summer low
flows (Slug)
Brook trout
Improve habitat and
restore native fish
assemblage.
Secure habitat for
sensitive nongame
species in Slug Creek.
Riparian restoration
Barrier removal or
modification
Nonnative species
eradication
Agreements not to
divert or downstream
water rights transfers.
Sheep and
Angus
creeks
Water quality
Loss of riparian
habitat
Habitat
fragmentation
Brook trout
Improve habitat for
migratory YCT.
Riparian restoration
Barrier removal or
modification
Lanes Creek
Complex
Water quality
Loss of riparian
habitat
Habitat
fragmentation
Brook trout
Improve spawning
and rearing habitat
for YCT and restore
native fish
assemblage.
Riparian restoration
Barrier removal or
modification
Nonnative species
eradication
Diamond
Creek
Complex
Water quality
Loss of riparian
habitat
Habitat
fragmentation
Brook trout
Improve spawning
and rearing habitat
for YCT and restore
native fish
assemblage.
Riparian restoration
Channel restoration
Barrier removal or
modification
Nonnative species
eradication
• Trout Unlimited assessment in Fall, 2011 & Winter, 2012
• Identification of priority projects and establishment of budget and funding in Winter, 2012
– Mining company funding
– Matching grants (e.g. Natural Resource Conservation Service)
• First field work started Summer, 2012, coordinated and often done by TU
A Rapid Start and Quick Success
Additional Partnerships Critical to Our Success
• Landowners, including
– Bear Lake Grazing Company
– Caribou Cattle Company
Additional Partnerships Critical to Our Success
• Federal agencies, including– NRCS
– US Forest Service
• State agencies, including– Idaho Fish & Game
– Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
Restoring Fish Passage
Restoring Fish Passage
