Up The Creek – Wanderlust Northwest

June SOTM Entry: Rock Creek Monster

When everyone else hit the Missouri to "catch fish", Ben Hahn decided to float upper Rock Creek and dredged a streamer.  It paid off with the fish of a lifetime.

Send us a pic of a bigger fish from this flow and we'll personally buy you a plate of bull balls at the Rock Creek Tavern. 

Stricter permit needed for Rock Creek Mine

While the cause du jour has been the gold and copper mine in Bristol Bay, there is a large scale mine project in Montana that is also a serious threat to a delicate ecosystem.

The Rock Creek Mine can’t use a general water discharge permit to build its access roads because those roads would threaten a population of bull trout in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, according to the Montana Supreme Court.

A four-justice majority ruled this week that Revett Silver Co. needs a more site-specific permit with greater public review before it starts a five-year effort to develop its copper and silver mine north of Noxon.

LINK (via: The Missoulian)