Tag Archives: Soda Butte Creek

The Soda Butte Creek restoration, part of the successful cleanup of the McLaren abandoned mine near Cooke City, Montana, will be celebrated at an event July 18 at the mine site.

Montana officials will remove Soda Butte Creek, which flows into Yellowstone National Park, from a list of impaired streams next year.

Over the next week and a half, Park staff will be wrapping up the Soda Butte Project, removing brook trout from 28 miles of streams in and around Yellowstone.

A plan to restore Yellowstone cutthroat trout into Soda Butte Creek has been approved for implementation.

An effort to save Yellowstone cutthroat trout may involve poisoning brook trout in the Soda Butte Creek outside the Park boundaries.

A section of washed-out road between Tower Junction and the Northeast Entrance in Yellowstone National Park has been repaired and is opening at 7 tonight for the busy Fourth of July weekend.

High waters have washed out part of the road connecting Tower Junction and the Northeast Entrance just west of Soda Butte, forcing a temporary road closure and impacting travel in Yellowstone National Park.

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality is cleaning up the old McLaren Tailings Site in Cooke City, a move that should reduce heavy metals flowing into Yellowstone National Park via Soda Butte Creek.