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BETTER FISHING DUE TO CCC WORKSmall Dams Built to Give the Finny Tribe Pools For Feeding Grounds.Plenty cf water but mo fish, is a condition that has been attacked in the first stream improvement vwak in the Beaverhead! National fkxreat, Supervisor E. D, Sandvig reports.The stream now partially improved is Birch creek. The work has been done by 25 Civilian Conservation Corps ennoilees, who were assigned to the task for six weeks last summer.Birch creek has a very short high-water period! each spaing, because six storage dams at feeder lakes impound most of the snow water for inrigati-o® purposes. It has a strong Bjow throughout the summer as water is released from the lakes, and has excellent possibilities In the 12-mile stretch within the 'Beaverhead forest.About . 25 years ago, however, the bed of the stream was washed! out when a storage dam collapsed. Since then the water has held an almost straight shot down grade through | ,the forest. The stream is so swift as to preclude presence of fish food after the flood.Improvement work done consists , of construction of 17 small log and rock dams built over a stretch of two and one-half miles of the stream.! These are so spaced as to provide ; riffles where fish may feed amid pools where they may rest. It ip believed the feed situation will be remedied quickly without help of man.I Excluding the value of the CCC enroilees’ time, the cost of such improvements is slight, and the benefit for recreation seekers is large. Supervisor Sandvig hopes that the improvement of Birch creek may be completed in 1936. Then attention will be paid to other streams where I improvement is needed, but not so). urgently as Birch creek.
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Dillon Tribune
Dillon, Montana, US
Thu, Jan 16, 1936
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