4-year Bug Report Summary

In 2019, BHRF began a partnership with the entomologists at River Continuum Concepts (Manhattan, MT) to design, implement, and operate a bug monitoring program on the Big Hole. Below, you’ll find the summary of the upcoming report on the first 4 years of that work. It's a foundational explanation of the nature of and need for this project and a record of design, reasoning, significance, and first outcomes. Basically, it’s a progress report and initial document in one.... a milestone for the project.

It's taken over nearly 5 years to get here, but this is essentially the meaningful starting point. Now we have a baseline of sorts, incorporating both the results of our work and a review of existing bug studies to inform and place our study within an historic context. This is the most comprehensive monitoring of macroinvertebrate trends ever conducted on the Big Hole River and we look forward to continuing the effort with your support.

This isn’t the full technical document and was written for a newsletter update. When the final report is complete, with all citations, graphs, and explanations of methodology, it will also be shared here on the website.