The city of Roundup and Musselshell, Rosebud, and Petroleum counties are working with the Musselshell Watershed Coalition, the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation and the Federal ...

River assessment This summer, an assessment of the Musselshell flood damage was completed by a team of experts with an eye to improving the river’s “function and ecological sustainability.” The River ...

During the 1800s, the Missouri River ran wild and free through Montana. Fort Peck was thriving at the eastern edge of the breaks, but the Fort Peck Dam was not built until the 1930s. Water in the ...

But strictly from an ecological perspective, the flood benefited the drainage and some of its wild inhabitants. New routes for fish passage were carved around some of the diversion dams that dot the ...

Musselshell River nothing but shallow pools in drought-stricken central plains. More than 300 miles of the Musselshell River stretching across the drought-plagued plains of central and eastern Montana ...

The Musselshell drainage has seen some hard times. Drought has frequently led to the river’s dewatering. The deterioration of the watershed was noted in a 2004 assessment of the riparian corridor ...