grown accustomed to our rivers and streams staying in their current
location. Over the past ten years they don’t seem to have moved very much,
so it seems like they might stay that way forever.
But the fact is that streams naturally
migrate across their floodplains over time, and in response to large events
such as floods or ice jams. Former active river channels are readily
visible in aerial photos of the
If you are planning a project along the
In December, 2009 the Missoula Water Quality District
released a pilot channel migration study for a stretch of the
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