Article: Recent rains raise river.

Byline: Nick Gevock

Aug. 10--Timely rains this week brought the upper Big Hole River's flow up from low levels that threatened to close the upper reaches to fishing, state officials said Tuesday.

The river's flow at the U.S. Geological Survey's Wisdom gauging station had dropped below 20 cubic feet per second last weekend, said Dick Oswald, Dillon fisheries manager for the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. That's the threshold at which the FWP Big Hole River drought plan requires irrigators on the upper river to cut back and fishing is banned.

But rain from Monday's thunderstorms in the upper Big Hole Valley brought the river to ...

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