Blanchard Creek. The Ihini lease, completed in August, 1993, is with a single individual on 

 Blanchard Creek, a small tributary in the Blackfoot River basin near Clearwater Junction. FWP 

 leases irrigation water by paying the rancher to stop irrigating when streamflows drop to an 

 agreed to level. This lease was first implemented during the 1994 irrigation season. 



Tin Cup Creek. The fourth lease, completed in October, 1994, is with six individuals holding 

 divided portions of the first water right that is located at the lowermost diversion on Tin Cup 

 Creek, a spawning tributary to the Bitterroot River near Darby. FWP pays for leaving all of the 

 right in the creek below the diversion point. The lease is expected to improve flows for rainbow 

 and cutthroat trout that migrate fi-om the Bitterroot River to spawn in the creek. This lease was 

 first implemented during the 1995 irrigation season. 



Cedar Creek. The fifth lease is with the U.S. Forest Service on Cedar Creek, another important 

 spawning tributary to the upper Yellowstone River near Corwin Springs. The Forest Service 

 purchased a private ranch in upper Cedar Creek for elk habitat. They will continue to irrigate 

 some lands but have leased some of their rights to FWP for instream flow to improve 

 Yellowstone cutthroat trout spawning in the lower 1/4 mile of the creek. The lease agreement 

 was completed in December, 1993 but the lease was not implemented until the 1996 irrigation 

 season due to a lengthy administrative process resulting firom objections fix)m other water users 

 on the creek. , . 



Hells Canyon Creek. The sixth lease, completed in August, 1995, is the result of converting a 

 flood irrigation system to a gravity pipeline sprinkler system. It involves three individuals who 

 irrigate fi-om Hells Canyon Creek, a Jefferson River tributary near Silver Star. The lease is 

 expected to improve rainbow trout spawning and reproduction in the creek that will improve the 

 fish population in the Jefferson River. The new system was completed in the fall of 1995 and the 

 lease was first implemented during the 1996 irrigation season. 



Mill Creek. The seventh lease is with a third individual on Mill Creek where the first two leases 

 were obtained. This person is also on the pipeline and FWP leases his salvaged water. This 

 lease joins the second lease in adding to the base flow in the creek to benefit cutthroat trout. The 

 lease agreement was completed in August, 1995 and was first implemented during the 1996 

 irrigation season. 



Chamberlain Creek. The eighth lease is with a landowner who formerly irrigated firom 

 Chamberlain Creek, a small tributary to the Blackfoot River near Ovando. The cre$k is an 

 important westslope cutthroat trout spawning stream. The lease agreement was completed in 

 March, 1996 and the lease became effective in October, 1996 after the "change" was granted by 

 DNRC. The lease was first implemented in 1997. 



Pearson Creek. The ninth lease is with the same landowner as the eighth lease, on Pearson 

 Creek, a tributary to Chamberlain Creek. Pearson Creek imderwent a River Restoration Program 

 stream improvement project that significantly unproved the physical habitat of the stream, which 



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