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Welcome to Friends of 2 Rivers, a citizens' organization committed to promoting a safe, healthy and enriching environment for communities at the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot Rivers.

 

Community at the Confluence 2010 a Sunny Success

Thanks to all who contributed to the success of Community at the Confluence and especially our sponsors the Cinnabar and Engelhard Foundations. If you missed the event, you can read Jamie Kelly's Missoulian account.


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Beetle Report: After Verbenone Use
Written by Gary Matson   

We’ve found no evidence of fresh infestation among our Ponderosa Pine growing where neighboring trees were killed last year by mountain pine beetles. The combination of cutting and peeling dying, infested “brood” trees and using Verbenone hormonal beetle repellant seems to have worked in this small area of less than 1 acre.

There are fresh infestations among trees about 300 yards above the treated area. Two trees inside a circle of beetle killed Ponderosa are loaded with pitch tubes. I’ll cut and peel these brood trees next year, and perhaps limit further spread.

A dead Ponerosa among healthy trees
A dead Ponerosa among healthy trees
Pitch tube
A fresh pitch tube on a newly infected tree.

 
Bear Aware Program Eases Human/Bruin Conflicts

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Most of us have heard it - the clang of garbage cans during a midnight raid by a bear; or seen it - a bear's face peering in through the livingroom window; of felt it - the disappointment of a prize fruit tree broken by a bear climbing up to snatch ripening fruit.

The Bear Aware Program seeks to ease these conflicts. www.missoulabears.org

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Restoration Progresses with Milltown Riparian and Floodplain Revegetation

Not a Spelling Bee, but a Primer on River Restoration

Riparian: Definition, please? Living or located on the bank of the river. R-I-P-A-R-I-A-N. Riparian.

Substrate....

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Natural River and Floodplain Function Goal of Design

 

A team of engineers, ecologists, hydrologists, geomorphologists, and biologists assembled by the State of Montana collaborate to restore the Clark Fork.

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