Expert issues warning over major crisis in local creek: 'This is kind of the canary in the coal mine'

Expert issues warning over major crisis in local creek: 'This is kind of the canary in the coal mine'

A Montana creek has completely dried up, according to KPAX, leaving behind crayfish skeletons and threatening an entire generation of fish and invertebrates. Radd Icenoggle, a Lolo resident with a background in wildlife biology, has documented the alarming transformation of Lolo Creek as drought conditions intensified this year.  The stretch between Highway 93 and the Bitterroot River has turned into a dusty creek bed. Icenoggle fears the kind o…