Saving the Mitchell
is the inside story of a decade-long legal battle against a covey of millionaires and billionaires to stop the gutting of Montana’s Stream Access Law and the removal of almost every stream and river in the state from environmental protection under the Montana Natural Streambed and Land Preservation Act of 1975.
The Mitchell Slough, originally known as the Right Fork of the St. Mary’s Fork of the Bitterroot River, is a 16-mile-long spring-fed stretch of the Bitterroot River that meanders from just north of Corvallis to just south of Stevensville.