The Trout Conservancy's first urban trout stream restoration project took place in March 2005 in two city parks in Missoula, Montana, through which flows the remnants of Pattee Creek, once a cherished creek where children caught dinner, and the only trout stream that flowed across the Missoula valley. |
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| Pattee Creek before restoration, March 2005 |
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Pattee Creek during restoration, April 2005 |
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| A restored Pattee Creek in Elms Park, Missoula - June 2006. By 2009, the willows and other shrubs we planted were more than 6' high. |
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Native cutthroat trout swimming in a restored reach of Pattee Creek, Missoula, in July 2007. |
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