Montana Hunting News
Written by Montana Hunter
Thursday, 31 March 2011 08:01
The Tongue River is a major source of irrigation water for farms and ranches that lay along its boundaries. It’s a tributary of the Yellowstone River and provides aquatic habitat for numerous species of warm-water fish. Several diversion dams were built on the Tongue to divert water for irrigation; this has provided stability for agricultural production along the river course. As a long-term consequence of these dams, historic fish passage, annual spawning runs and fish distribution have been interrupted.
