The primary stakeholders in the watershed restoration efforts in Big Creek are the Flathead National 

 Forest (FNF), Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Partes (MDFWP), and Winter Sports 

 Incorporated (WSI). Listed in Table - 1 are proposed rehabilitation projects that are meant to decrease 

 the sediment load, improve dispersion and infiltration on site with concentrated surface water, and to 

 stabilize in-channel sediment deposits. These changes to the sediment and peak flow regime will help 

 Big Creek to return to more stable condition. In addition, monitoring of the physical stream parameters 

 over time is proposed to insure the stream channel is attaining dynamic equilibrium. This monitoring 

 would include: McNeil Cores (instream fine sediments), channel crossections, and streambank erosion 

 profiles. 



