{"id":4347,"date":"2018-02-28T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:48:04","slug":"upland-habitat-remediation-mount-haggin-wildlife-management-area-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/upland-habitat-remediation-mount-haggin-wildlife-management-area-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Upland Habitat Remediation: Mount Haggin Wildlife Management Area, Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Project Contact: Pedro Marques<\/b><br><b>Big Hole Watershed Committee, Montana<\/b><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2012, the Natural Resource Damage Program has been testing and refining approaches to steep slope remediation and restoration in roadless areas of the Mount Haggin Wildlife Management Area near the Continental Divide in Southwest Montana. These areas were severely degraded by aerial emissions from the giant smelting operations in Anaconda, as well as intensive logging that left upland slopes completely void of vegetation for nearly 100 years. The work has been focused on holding sediment on the landscape as a way to mitigate metals contamination. This means growing vegetation on bare upland slopes, catching sediment in ephemeral gullies and aggrading incised stream systems to both catch sediment and ensure over-bank deposition of sediment during high run-off. Combining low-tech hand labor crews and high-tech aerial survey, project partners have developed an effective toolbox of steep slope remediation techniques and to date have captured over 600 tons of sediment in the project areas. A Remedy and Restoration Plan to guide work in the area for the next 5-10 years is currently being developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"621\" data-id=\"3238\" src=\"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/files\/2018\/03\/MtHaggin_Marques2-1024x621.jpg\" alt=\"side by side images of almost three years showing improved habitat growth\" class=\"wp-image-3238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/files\/2018\/03\/MtHaggin_Marques2-1024x621.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/files\/2018\/03\/MtHaggin_Marques2-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/files\/2018\/03\/MtHaggin_Marques2-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/files\/2018\/03\/MtHaggin_Marques2.jpg 1177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mount Haggin before (Aug 2014) and after (July 2017). <br>Photo Credit: Pedro Marques.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" data-id=\"3237\" src=\"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/files\/2018\/03\/MtHaggin_Marques1-1024x571.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial image of Mount Haggin restoration, before and after (July 2014 to July 2017) of increased vegetation cover.\" class=\"wp-image-3237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/files\/2018\/03\/MtHaggin_Marques1-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/files\/2018\/03\/MtHaggin_Marques1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/files\/2018\/03\/MtHaggin_Marques1-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/files\/2018\/03\/MtHaggin_Marques1.jpg 1177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mount Haggin Restoration before and after. <br>Photo Credit: Pedro Marques. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about this effort, view the \u2018Restoring the Moonscapes of the Mt. Haggin Uplands\u2019 video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GvEGT2SOGcI\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Contact: Pedro MarquesBig Hole Watershed Committee, Montana Since 2012, the Natural Resource Damage Program has been testing and refining approaches to steep slope remediation and restoration in roadless areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":3238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-restoration-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/northwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}