Clark Fork

It's like, it's, uh, a w- a woman sort of steps out of, out of the...

Like, is fished out of the Clark Fork River, and is sort, is sort of...

She knows, like, her...

She's searching for her family, but meanwhile, like, these masked and sinister figures are searching for her.

Paul, I wanted to have you share maybe the history of Nine Mile Creek and then why it's so, so important to this region.

Yeah, so Nine Mile Creek is located west of Missoula, downstream of Missoula, in the confluence of the Clark Fork, um, is downstream of Missoula about 20 miles.

Um, it's a really neat valley bound by two mountain ranges.

We have Reservation Divide to the north, where if you get up on top of those mountains, you can look down, you can see Glacier from there and the Mission Mountains, and you're looking down on the Flathead River-

...

so it's been a longtime partnership with a lot of really great partners that have made it happen.

You know, the need, the need was obvious because specifically on this main stem of Nine Mile Creek, roughly about 17, 18 miles up from the confluence with the Clark Fork, it was really heavily impacted.

You know, there was five miles that was completely bulldozed and turned upside down and straightened.

But again,

we see the majority of our whitetail deer being along the river corridors, primarily the Bitterroot River system, the Blackfoot system, and then even the Clark Fork.

You'll occasionally find mule deer on the upper Clark Fork stretch, but it really does seem to be a downstream of Anaconda Deer Lodge that you find the majority of them.

Okay.

How about regulation changes? Anything we ought to take note of there?

So those ones you can access, click on the map and rule for any of them and see some of the opportunities that are available.

Right.

Yeah, what I think is cool is like here, if we look, since we were talking a bit about Region 2, of course, City of Missoula, Clark Fork Islands, if we go over there and click that, There you go.

Okay

... sending three 737 fuselages down the embankment into the Clark Fork River.

Hmm.

There you go.

We're speaking with Angela Mastrovito, Rebecca Barsotti's mother.

When belongings of Rebecca's were found along the Clark Fork River, a search kicked off that brought troubling questions about the investigation that only continued with the discovery of Rebecca's remains.

Let's get into the interview.

On July 20th 2021, a family walking along a Clark Fork River trail came across several scattered belongings.

Car keys, a phone, a dog leash, and a photo ID belonging to Rebecca Barsotti.

The Clark Fork River is 310 miles long, stretching from southwestern Montana to northern Idaho.

But the stretch of riverbank where Rebecca's belongings were found was just west of Alberton in Mineral County.

Rebecca had been in the area earlier that day, collecting her belongings from the marital home she'd shared with her estranged husband, David Barsotti.

Missoula, you know, western Montana here.

Um, if you head straight south of Missoula, the Bitterroot River basically skirts the, uh, eastern Idaho border, and it flows for 85 miles, um, due north, uh, meets up with the Clark Fork River in Missoula.

So that's it.

So that's one of the big rivers that I always think of Missoula.

You've got the, the Clark Fork, the, well, the Bitterroot.

And what's the other one? There's a couple of big ones, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, looking at the map, the Bitterroot kinda, like you said, it flows from south to north.

So here comes, yes.

So it comes down, goes through this low point right here, and then becomes part of the Clark fork, or no, the flathead.

You're right, the flathead.

And then the flathead... becomes the Clark Fork right here.

Because here comes the Clark Fork, wraps around this way, and then the Flathead flows in, and then it becomes the Clark Fork.

So all of this water is headed out northwest along the valley of the Clark Fork.

And this, again, what you see here is the modern river, and you see the flat.

This is what you see over and over and over again.