Did you know?
Priest Lake tributaries are not meeting Federal Clean Water Act Cool Temperature standards?
Warm stream water adversely impacts fish spawning, oxygen levels and increases aquatic vegetation growth like toxic cyanobacteria.
Logging increases nutrient loading and decreases solar shading, both increase stream temperatures.
Even with the above listed concerns, Priest Lake Watershed streams have not been consistently monitored... Until now!
SCA has started a stream monitoring program collecting water quality data on 15 of Priest Lake tributary streams!
How You Can Help
Help us find parents for these orphaned streams!
- Two Mouth
- Soldier Creek
- Trapper Creek
- Cougar Creek
- Chase Creek
- Upper Priest River
Funding this program doesn't come easy, it comes from people like you!
Thank you so much to our current Stream Parents!
Hunt Creek ... Karen & George Momany
Lion Creek ... Hungate Family
Indian Creek ... Susan Beard
Granite Creek ... Melissa Quilter
Caribou Creek ... Rolf Paulson
Lamb Creek ... Bruce & Rosemary Yocum
Kalispel Creek ... Jay Hanseth
Adopt-A-Stream Levels
Babbling Brook Level
Any donation is appreciated and your support does so much to help expand the program and cover major expenses like lab testing costs (which average $600 a month to test all the sites)!
Cutthroat Trout Level
$250 purchases a "Tidbit" which continuously monitors stream temperatures every 15 minutes for 2 years!
Bull Trout Level
$500 purchases the Tidbit temperature monitor, repeated annual chemistry testing as well as stream habitat and physical assessments. It also provides funding to help with education for water steward certifications to insure the success of the program!
What you receive for your donation!
Temperature Monitoring Tidbit
Have your name added as an adopter of your favorite stream -possibly on the Tidbit housing itself, for all the spawning salmonids to see!
Join the Gang to Collect Data
Walk and wade your stream with other SCA volunteers to monitor the data and record habitat and physical stream features!
Furthering Education
Participation in educational opportunities to learn about stream biology with the opportunity to become certified as a "Master Water Steward" through IDAH2O!
Be the First
Be the first to see the data as it unfolds!
Being a Part of Something More
Most importantly- Satisfaction that you and your family are making a difference and helping keep Priest Lake pristine!
