RED LODGE — Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat problems of the past, even when it comes to post-flood recovery work.
A report authored 67 years ago highlighted complications following a 1957 flood of Rock Creek in south-central Montana’s Carbon County.
The East Rosebud drainage is seen with East Rosebud Lake in the foreground. Flood scouring along the creek and sediment deposition in the lake is evident two years after a large flood.
“Where woody vegetation is scarce or in areas where vegetation is mainly grass and weeds interspersed with mature cottonwood trees, considerable lateral movement of the stream occurs during peak water discharge periods,” two Montana Fish & Game Department fisheries biologists wrote in 1960.
