Mike Horse clean up enters home stretch

Heavy spring rains and runoff had the nascent Blackfoot River churning through its new channel near the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex Water Treatment Plant Thursday, May 21. Just upstream, the river formed at the confluence of Bear Trap and Anaconda Creeks.

Downstream, water filled the reconstructed side channels and wetlands as the last of the major work to restore the headwaters of the Blackfoo...