1 of 12 channels on the Bighorn River in Montana included in the Bighorn River Side Channel Reactivation Project. (5 are being completed in 2023) Visit us at www.bighornriveralliance.org to learn more about the Bighorn River Alliance and how you can help river conservation on the Bighorn.

1 of 12 channels on the Bighorn River in Montana included in the Bighorn River Side Channel Reactivation Project. (5 are being completed in 2023) Visit us at www.bighornriveralliance.org to learn more about the Bighorn River Alliance and how you can help river conservation on the Bighorn.

1 of 12 channels on the Bighorn River in Montana included in the Bighorn River Side Channel Reactivation Project. (5 are being completed in 2023) Visit us at www.bighornriveralliance.org to learn more about the Bighorn River Alliance and how you can help river conservation on the Bighorn.

1 of 12 channels on the Bighorn River in Montana included in the Bighorn River Side Channel Reactivation Project. (5 are being completed in 2023) Visit us at www.bighornriveralliance.org to learn more about the Bighorn River Alliance and how you can help river conservation on the Bighorn.

1 of 12 channels on the Bighorn River in Montana included in the Bighorn River Side Channel Reactivation Project. (5 are being completed in 2023) Visit us at www.bighornriveralliance.org to learn more about the Bighorn River Alliance and how you can help river conservation on the Bighorn.

1 of 12 channels on the Bighorn River in Montana included in the Bighorn River Side Channel Reactivation Project. (5 are being completed in 2023) Visit us at www.bighornriveralliance.org to learn more about the Bighorn River Alliance and how you can help river conservation on the Bighorn.

7-2-2022 Flight #8 at Complex 1 Flow: 5490, Total Fish: 225 This season, BHRA used drone technology to monitor and map 11 major spawning complexes in the upper 13 miles of the Bighorn River. These complexes, defined as areas where redds are built in high densities, are unique habitats that serve as important spawning grounds for Bighorn wild rainbow trout. Understanding that spawning habitat is limited on the Bighorn River, and that no redd counts or surveys are currently occurring, BHRA has been working with Tony Thatcher (DTM Consulting) and drone certified pilot Dennis Fischer to develop drone-based survey methodology that will map and monitor these critical zones – information that will allow us to track changes in spawning habitat and trout use over time, and establish baseline data of which future changes in the river environment can be compared. www.bighornriveralliance.org

Each third weekend of August, for the past 103 years, tribal residents near and far travel to and within the reservation boundaries where hundreds of tipis are constructed along the Little Bighorn River, and Crow culture is displayed, and honored. Parades, Powwows, rodeos, and relays fill the streets of Crow Agency while elders speak the native Crow language – a language that has been kept alive over the past century through tradition and will.