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12 Mile Dam

A Dam, Dying Fish, and a Montana Farmer’s Lifelong Quest to Right a Wrong

UncategorizedLeave a comment Sandra Postel

In the pantheon of river conservationists, few may leave a legacy larger than that of Roger Muggli, a third-generation farmer in eastern Montana. Thanks to his decades of efforts to help fish safely pass 12 Mile Dam, an irrigation diversion structure built in 1885 on the Tongue River, a major tributary to the Yellowstone, Muggli…

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A Dam, Dying Fish, and a Montana Farmer’s Lifelong Quest to Right a Wrong

UncategorizedLeave a comment Sandra Postel

In the pantheon of river conservationists, few may leave a legacy larger than that of Roger Muggli, a third-generation farmer in eastern Montana. Thanks to his decades of efforts to help fish safely pass 12 Mile Dam, an irrigation diversion structure built in 1885 on the Tongue River, a major tributary to the Yellowstone, Muggli…

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