It was 2007. After 15 years of painstaking negotiation, the U.S. Forest Service and the state of Montana had struck a deal to preserve streamflows on national forest land. Ziemer, senior counsel and ...
Streams on Forest Service land may soon be a little more vulnerable. For the past eight years, the Forest Service has been able to insist on “bypass flows,” or minimum instream flows, when towns and ...
Even advocates of Montana's Forest Service compact would call it imperfect. It doesn’t cover all streams, the water rights it preserves take a backseat to older rights during dry times, and they only ...