Historic Grant Kohrs Ranch Prepares For Clean Up

The area is getting its very own cleanup plan, "You're looking at a fairly contaminated layer of copper imbedded right in that bank. A big yellow band," said Grant-Kohrs Superintendent Laura Rotegard.

The bulk of the cleanup work on the Clark Fork River in Montana, upstream of Milltown, will happen around Deer Lodge, including on a unit of the National Park Service.

Officials at the Grant-Kohrs Ranch historic site say what happens there will be a model for restoration.

The Grant Kohrs historic site is an island of National Park Service ground along the upper Clark Fork River, and like some of the private land along the river, it has significant areas of toxic sediments in the riverbank, and right on top of the ground.

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The Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site in Deer Lodge. A place that celebrates 150 years of ranching heritage.

The Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site in Deer Lodge. A place that celebrates 150 years of ranching heritage, and includes 11 acres of slickens, areas with heavy deposits of copper, arsenic and other heavy metals which were carried downstream in the great flood of 1908.