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Milltown event highlights century of industrial history and river restoration
Summary
Milltown State Park staff and local conservation leaders used the park's Confluence opening to frame the site's layered history'from indigenous place names and 19th-century transportation routes to 20th-century industrial impacts'and to situate recent restoration and public-engagement work tied to the Milltown Superfund cleanup.
Mike Castudia, Milltown State Park manager, opened the Confluence-area program at Milltown State Park by urging attendees to see the site as overlapping stories of people and rivers. "Confluence of stories" was his repeated framing for the site'where two rivers meet and where interpretive panels and talks now aim to tell both natural and human histories.
Why it matters: the program tied local history to a long restoration project that followed contamination from mine waste and a century of dams and reservoirs. David Brooks, executive director of Montana Trout Unlimited, said local residents and grassroots actions played a decisive role in the site's cleanup…
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