Seems like it’s not just the ducks…

A recent article in the Missoula Independent, points out that “culvertizing” irrigation ditches is obviously bad for the adjacent trees also. The article is about growth in the target range area but touches on the subject of a grand old cottonwood gallery that has been dying-off for years and now the last one is slated for removal. As pointed out in a previous post, the traffic engineers pursuing a super-size expansion of Russell Street somehow managed to figure a way to extend the project footprint to the west side of the mobile home park at River Road, the location of the irrigation ditch in question. The design of this proposed north/south bypass road over this north/south irrigation ditch appears to impact the yards of 4 mobile homes and likely cause the removal of 2 of them.