Park Board discusses lodge stabilization, veteran memorial campground and beaver trapping
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Clouds hang in the sky Monday in Beaver Creek Park. Park Superintendent Chad Edgar said Monday during a Hill County Park Board meeting that park usage is up and it recently saw its busiest weekend of the year.
The Hill County Park Board met Monday evening and discussed a number of issues surrounding Beaver Creek Park, but the most immediate was the need to stabilize the lodge. Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar said Friends of Beaver Creek Park recently helped pay for an architect and an engineer to come up to look at the lodge to evaluate its stability which has been a concern for some time.
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Park Board presented overview on toxic algal bloom study
Last updated 3/2/2021 at 11:27am
Montana State University-Northern Professor Terri Hildebrand presented to the Hill County Park Board Monday an overview of her findings regarding water chemistry in Beaver Creek Park and the potential for toxic algal blooms to occur. Hildebrand said she’s been taking readings from six sites on Beaver Creek Park since 2019 and the waters’ high phosphorus levels could prove to be a serious issue, leading to these toxic blooms. She said algae tends to thrive and populate out of control in phosphorus-rich water and while many kinds of algae are harmless the toxic varieties can pose a seri.