Longtime Clark Fork Coalition leader retiring
Karen Knudsen
The Clark Fork Coalition is headquartered in Missoula, but their entire mission is dedicated to protecting and restoring the Clark Fork River basin. That includes Mineral County and Sanders County to where the river joins the Flathead River at Paradise.
For three decades, the CFC has worked to restore and sustain the Clark Fork and its tributaries, ensuring it can flow with clean, cold, and abundant waters for generations to come.
They are science-based and community-driven, as evidenced by their genesis in 1985: Dozens of community members banded together to stop a pulp and paper mill from dumping pollution into the Clark Fork River downstream of Missoula. The river carries scars of a legacy of service with Butte being the primary spot during the days of the Copper Kings. Toxic mine waste, damaged stream banks, and disconnected tributaries, however, it’s decidedly a watershed on the upswing.
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