Retrofit the perched road culvert on the ranch's tributary crossing for fish passage, a working ranch parcel along the Teton River near Choteau, MT 59422.

This ranch's county-road tributary crossing runs an undersized culvert that has scoured out below its outlet, leaving the pipe perched a foot above the streambed and blocking native trout from moving upstream to spawning water; regrading the outlet pool and setting embedded baffles restores a continuous, passable channel through the crossing.

Where

a working ranch parcel along the Teton River near Choteau, MT 59422 · Open the map

Pay

$165 proposed

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Proof

before/after photos + perch-height measurement + baffle/embedment log + flow-continuity confirm + GPS

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

advanced

Open until

2026-09-16

Posted by

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Bring

• GPS phone
• pH meter or strips
• conductivity meter
• ammonia + iron test kit as specified
• surfactant screen if specified
• gloves
• camera

Steps

1. 1. Navigate to the outfall/reach; record GPS; photograph it, capturing any visible flow or staining.
2. 2. Note whether flow is present in dry weather (yes/no).
3. 3. Measure and record pH, conductivity, and each specified analyte per kit instructions.
4. 4. Log any color, odor, floc, or aquatic-life observation.
5. 5. Enter all readings with units, GPS, time, and photos into the proof record; sign.

What counts as done

• Before photo + measured perch height at the culvert outlet
• Baffle placement / streambed-embedment log matched to the culvert diameter
• After photo showing the outlet pool regraded to streambed grade with no perch drop
• Flow-continuity confirmation (water surface unbroken from inlet to outlet, no jump)

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Watershed Health. A watershed is everything the land pours into a stream, and the stream keeps the record. The EPA's bioassessment method reads that record through the small creatures living in the gravel: mayflies and caddisflies mean clean water, only worms and midges mean trouble. Mastery looks like a person who can wade one riffle with a net and tell you how the whole valley is doing. That skill is built sample by sample. This packet is one of them: one site, one careful count, one entry in the long record of a stream.