. The Big Blackfoot River restoration progress report for 2002 and 2003 . Fish populations; Fishes; Fishery management; Trout fisheries; Stream ecology; Blackfoot River (Mont. ). 67 ° F. approximately 4 ° F cooler than the Blackfoot River near Belmont Creek at mile (Appendix I). Kleinschmidt Creek Restoration objectives: reduce whirling disease infection levels; restore stream channel morphology for all life stages of trout; increase recruitment of trout to the Blackfoot River; and restore thermal refiigia and rearing areas for North Fork Blackfoot River bull trout Project Summary Kleins
. The Big Blackfoot River restoration progress report for 2002 and 2003 . Fish populations; Fishes; Fishery management; Trout fisheries; Stream ecology; Blackfoot River (Mont. ). 67 ° F. approximately 4 ° F cooler than the Blackfoot River near Belmont Creek at mile (Appendix I). Kleinschmidt Creek Restoration objectives: reduce whirling disease infection levels; restore stream channel morphology for all life stages of trout; increase recruitment of trout to the Blackfoot River; and restore thermal refiigia and rearing areas for North Fork Blackfoot River bull trout Project Summary Kleinschmidt Creek, located on the southern margin of Kleinschmidt Flat, is a spring creek tributary to the North Fork of the Blackfoot River, entering at mile with a base flow of cfs in September 2001. Kleinschmidt Creek currently supports low numbers of brown trout and brook trout, along with very low densities of bull trout, rainbow trout and WSCT. Kleinschmidt has a long history of intensive riparian grazing, with very little regard for riparian health and channel stability. In addition to livestock over-use, placement of rock dams, undersized culverts and highway channelization further degraded, and over-widened Kleinschmidt Creek (Pierce 1991). In 2000-01, the Blackfoot Cooperators reconstructed 6,250' of degraded and over-widened stream to C and E-type channels. A summary of pre-and post-project channel parameters is described by Pierce et al. 2002. Density (95% CI) 12| 10 W/ wood W/O wood Project Project ^... 1998 2000 2003 1998 2000 Mile Year Mile Fish Populations In 2002 and 2003, we monitored fish populations, water temperatures and whirling disease infection levels. Fish population surveys were completed at two locations of lower Kleinschmidt Creek (mile and ) at sections established in 1998. To assess the influence of LWD in newly constructed E4-type channels, we placed no LWD in the mile survey section during reconstruction, whereas the res
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