Poindexter Slough Renovation...

Funded by Future Fisheries grants and a compelling argument by local sportsmen, the Beaverhead Watershed Committee and Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks fisheries biologists Poindexter Slough is getting a long-awaited and much needed face-lift.

A new head-gate designed to allow for periodic flooding to maintain spawning and insect rearing gravels, dredging decades of silt build-up, narrowing channel and returning natural meanders and bank stabilization the hope is to once again return the "Slough" to its rightful place of prominance.

While great progress has been made so far this winter, whether or not the entire project is completed depends a lot on the return of more normal, e.g. colder, weather. Stay tuned...