Endnotes 



33. The claims are as follows as listed in Hydrometrics report, 1987: 



Commercial — 10 



Domestic — 72 



Flood Control — 1 



Fire Protection— 1 



Fish and WUdlife— 16 



Recreation — 6 



Agriculmral spraying — 1 



Mining — 47 



Power generation — 1 



Stock water — 244 



WUdlife— 26 ' ; 



Irrigation — 278 



Municipal — 1 



Unidentified Claims — 2 



The Department of Natural Resources and Conservation listing in Appendix D shows claims and permitted 

 (post-1973) water rights by use and priority date. That list may deviate from the one above owing to changes 

 made since the decree. 



34. The 61 claims were for more than 2.5 cubic feet per second of water 



35. See Montana State Agricultural Experiment Station, Water Resources Survey for Granite County, 1959. 



36. Lorraine Gillies and her husband Jim own a ranch homesteaded by Jim's family four generations ago at the 

 confluence of Lower Willow Creek and Rock Creek. Because the Murphy Right already has established in- 

 stream flow protection, Rock Creek is not included in the basinwide water reservation process under con- 

 sideration by the Montana Board of Natural Resources and Conservation. 



37 Funds for the Weed Advisory Trust come from the coal severance tax, car and truck licenses and a surtax 

 on agricultural chemicals. 



38. Year-round residents say they can't maintain knapweed-free islands among the untended ranchettes and 

 1,000-acre weed-choked Forest Service spread in the "Valley of the Moon. 



39. Montana Land Reliance, Rock Creek Landowner Seminars Report, August 9, 1990. 



40. Missoulian. August 3, 1977. 



41. Ibid. 



42. Missoulian, August 5, 1977. 



43. Missoulian, February 9, 1982. 



44. Montana Fish and Game Deparmient, Situation Statement, Rock Creek, Impact on Elk, March 12, 1970. Some 

 5,000 acres of land north of Gillies Bridge are suitable for residential development. See Lolo and Deerlodge 

 National Forest Study Plan, June, 1972. 



45. This was in the form of a temporary zoning regulation. Rock Creek Drainage Brief Simation Statement, Lolo 

 and Deerlodge National Forests, July 1973. For a history of early subdivision, see "Granite County Com- 

 prehensive Plan," 1974, and "Lower Rock Creek Inventory and Land Use," prepared for Granite County in 1974. 



