Nevada Spring Creek Partners, LLC is the sponsor of the Upper Clark Fork Mitigation Bank, providing credits for both wetland and stream impacts within a broad service area in western Montana. The sponsor has restored over 10,000 linear feet of high quality spring creek and associated riparian areas, along with over 260 acres of valley wetlands near the famed Blackfoot River.

As development activities affect the natural resource base in the major watershed basins of the Upper Clark Fork River, the proactive restoration of Nevada Spring Creek and adjacent riparian and wetland habitats creates an opportunity for advanced mitigation of those effects under the Section 404 (Clean Water Act) regulatory program.

As of 2005, a 10,953-foot reach of Nevada Spring Creek has been restored and documented as a stream mitigation bank under the 1995 Federal Guidance. In addition, over 264 acres of heavily impacted wetlands have been restored to a high quality mosaic of wet meadow, emergent and scrub-shrub habitats. The successful establishment of these habitats is available to provide compensation for impacts to similar habitats in the Service Area (map above) which includes most of Missoula and Powell Counties, as well as the metro areas of Missoula, Milltown, Butte, Phillpsburg, and Drummond in the Blackfoot, Upper Clark Fork and Flint-Rock watersheds.