Crews carried hundreds of fish into a restored Jocko River channel
As water entered a restored channel at the Bison Range Reach, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes crews moved stranded fish, including a cutthroat trout.
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Water moving into a restored stretch of the Jocko River left fish behind in the old channel, and crews went in after them. Char-Koosta News reported on October 8, 2026, that the work was part of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes' Bison Range Reach restoration. As the old channel was drained, crews collected hundreds of fish, including a cutthroat trout, and carried them in coolers to the new channel so they would not be stranded.
The project is returning the river toward a path connected to its floodplain, instead of the confined line it had been following along the Bison Range hillside. The rescue was one day in a longer restoration, not a claim that the fishery is finished.
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