Clark Fork Coalition

With the help of a federal grant, river conservationists are one step closer to opening more of the upper Clark Fork basin to fish and people.

Monies obtained for damages to natural resources from years of pollution at the Smurfit Stone mill site in Frenchtown will be split between a group of Trustees, before the actual cleanup costs have been determined.

While the floods of 2018 have hit and retreated from their highest levels in a hundred years, another danger buried for over half a century near the former Smurfit mill site sits waiting.