Fresno Brochure
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May 2013 2013 May around the reservoir. reservoir. the around Cell phone service is very limited limited very is service phone Cell more information information more Dial 911 911 Dial Services Emergency property. property. QR CODE reader app for for app reader CODE QR regulations may result in eviction from the the from eviction in result may regulations (406) 265-2512 265-2512 (406) iff Sher County Hill Use your smart phone’s phone’s smart your Use Failure to comply with campground rules and and rules campground with comply to Failure (406) 759-5077 759-5077 (406) Office Division Rivers Marias-Milk roads. Off highway vehicle use is prohibited. prohibited. is use vehicle highway Off roads. 15mph, or posted speed, is limited to established established to limited is speed, posted or 15mph, Contact Information: Information: Contact 10. 10. Operation of any motorized vehicle in excess of of excess in vehicle motorized any of Operation your own animals. animals. own your facilities available. available. facilities enclosure. It is your responsibility to clean up after after up clean to responsibility your is It enclosure. below Fresno Dam as a fishing access site. Restroom Restroom site. access fishing a as Dam Fresno below physically constrained or kept in a structure or or structure a in kept or constrained physically life and Parks manages this area located immediately immediately located area this manages Parks and life them unattended. Domestic animals must be be must animals Domestic unattended. them Fresno Tailwater FAS FAS Tailwater Fresno - Wild Fish, Montana — 9. 9. Allowing pets or livestock to roam free or leaving leaving or free roam to livestock or pets Allowing Pack-it-out policy. policy. Pack-it-out restroom facilities. facilities. restroom road access; Pack-it-in/ Pack-it-in/ access; road gravel and parking camping, toilets, baths, showers or sinks onto the ground or into into or ground the onto sinks or showers baths, toilets, Kiehn’s Bay Bay Kiehn’s — Restroom facilities, day use area, area, use day facilities, Restroom — 8. 8. Discharge of holding tanks, waste water from from water waste tanks, holding of Discharge Trash dumpsters are available. available. are dumpsters Trash hours from 10:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. a.m. 8:00 to p.m. 10:00 from hours ramp, day use area, parking and gravel road access. access. road gravel and parking area, use day ramp, playing loud music. Excessive noise during quiet quiet during noise Excessive music. loud playing Jaycees Beach Beach Jaycees — Cabin sites, concrete/dirt boat boat concrete/dirt sites, Cabin — 7. 7. Use of loud, profane or abusive language or or language abusive or profane loud, of Use facilities. facilities. h dumpsters are available. available. are dumpsters h Tras access. road gravel and 6. 6. campsite, 2 restroom facilities, day use areas, parking parking areas, use day facilities, restroom 2 campsite, Littering the grounds or placing trash into restroom restroom into trash placing or grounds the Littering Fresno Beach Day Use Area Area Use Day Beach Fresno — Designated Designated — than 14 days during any 30 consecutive-day period. period. consecutive-day 30 any during days 14 than 5. 5. Camping at any one location for a period longer longer period a for location one any at Camping of the dam. Trash dumpsters are available. available. are dumpsters Trash dam. the of ties and a group use shelter are located directly south south directly located are shelter use group a and ties more than 24 consecutive hours. hours. consecutive 24 than more - facili restroom lot, parking paved ramp, boat Concrete 4. 4. Leaving a campsite or property unattended for for unattended property or campsite a Leaving Overlook & Boat Ramp Day Use Area Area Use Day Ramp Boat & Overlook — — shrubs, flowers, vegetation and soils. soils. and vegetation flowers, shrubs, -it-in/Pack-it-out policy. policy. -it-in/Pack-it-out 3. 3. Willful injury to, destruction or removal of trees, trees, of removal or destruction to, injury Willful north of Kremlin. No trash services are available; Pack Pack available; are services trash No Kremlin. of north other property. property. other crete boat ramp are located 3.5 miles east and 4 miles miles 4 and east miles 3.5 located are ramp boat crete public buildings, structures, signs, equipment and and equipment signs, structures, buildings, public - con a and area, use day facilities, restroom campsites, 2. 2. ent or destruction of of destruction or ent defacem to, injury Willful Kremlin Bay Campground Campground Bay Kremlin — Designated Designated — guns, archery equipment and paintball guns). guns). paintball and equipment archery guns, brought in or created created or in brought 1. 1. Discharge of firearms or fireworks (including air air (including fireworks or firearms of Discharge policy refers to visitors removing all trash they have have they trash all removing visitors to refers policy map) around the reservoir. The Pack-it-in/Pack-it-out Pack-it-in/Pack-it-out The reservoir. the around map) Fresno Reservoir recreation areas: areas: recreation Reservoir Fresno mation maintains six recreational areas (shown on on (shown areas recreational six maintains mation The following activities are prohibited in the the in prohibited are activities following The - Recla miles. 25 oximately appr for dam the of stream - up extends shoreline, of miles 65 with reservoir, The Regulations Regulations Recreation Facilities Facilities Recreation Campground Rules and and Rules Campground Fresno Reservoir Reservoir Fresno The diversity of land surrounding Fresno Reservoir The Milk River Project includes Lake Sherburne Dam, Fresno Dam provides habitat for many wildlife species. Most of the land Swift Current Creek Dike, St. Mary Diversion Dam, St. is leased out for grazing. However, the Fresno Wildlife Mary Canal, Fresno Dam, Nelson Dikes; Dodson, The primary purpose of Fresno Dam is irrigation for Management Area includes approximately 2,700 acres on Vandalia and Paradise Diversion Dams; Dodson Pumping agricultural production. Fresno Dam was approved by the the upper end of the reservoir and is administered by Plant, 200 miles of canals, 219 miles of laterals and 295 President of the United States in August 1935 and Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. This area provides miles of drains. The Project provides irrigation water for constructed under the National Industrial Recovery Act. suitable viewing of whitetail deer, mule deer, antelope, about 121,000 acres within the Milk River basin over a Construction of Fresno Dam was completed in 1939. waterfowl and upland game birds. distance of about 165 miles starting near Havre and going Located on the Milk River 14 miles west of Havre, to a point 6 miles below Nashua. Montana, Fresno Dam is a compacted earthfill dam with a Current reservoir elevations and safe launching elevations crest length of 2,070 feet and a structural height of 110 feet. for boat ramps at Reclamation reservoirs in Montana can be The principal crops grown on the Project include It contains 2,105,000 cubic yards of material. An overflow- accessed at http://www.usbr.gov/gp/boat/. alfalfa, hay, oats, wheat, and barley. Alfalfa Valley, Ft. type spillway at the north end of the dam provides for a flow Belknap, Harlem, Paradise Valley and Zurich of 51,360 cubic feet per second through the concrete-lined Facility security and safety requires that some areas near Irrigation Districts own and operate all of the irrigation channel. The outlet works discharge a maximum of 2,180 the dam, outlet works and spillway are closed to the facilities within the Chinook Division, with the cubic feet per second through two 72-inch steel pipe outlet public. These areas are marked by fences, cableways and exception of the Paradise Diversion Dam, which is tubes. Conservation storage of 103,000 acre-feet is signs. owned by Reclamation but operated by Paradise impounded in Fresno Reservoir. A provision is also made Irrigation District. Reclamation holds title to all the for flood control benefits. The Bureau of Reclamation irrigation facilities within the Malta and Glasgow (Reclamation) owns and operates Fresno Dam. Flood Control Fresno Reservoir has 32,802 acre-feet allocated to joint use Division, but has contracted with Malta and Glasgow Recreation, Fish and Wildlife storage, which is used for flood control, irrigation and other Irrigation Districts to perform operation and conservation uses. Total flood damages reduced by Fresno maintenance. The Ft. Belknap Indian Irrigation Project Fresno Reservoir provides recreation enthusiasts with Reservoir from 1939-2011 were $32,068,300. is owned and operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, opportunities such as boating, camping, fishing, picnicking, and receives an allocation of Fresno Reservoir storage water skiing, hunting and wildlife viewing. Reclamation administers public recreation on the federal lands Milk River Project for irrigation of about 6,000 acres. The cities of Havre, surrounding the reservoir. Privately owned cabins on federal Fresno Dam impounds the Milk River forming Fresno Chinook, Harlem, and the Hill County Rural Water land are administered under lease agreements issued by Reservoir. This Reclamation facility is one of many Project receive municipal water supply from Fresno Reclamation. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks manages the associated with the Milk River Project. During the 1880s, Reservoir. Reclamation has participated in Source fishery in the reservoir, a wildlife management area at the settlers built small individual irrigation systems and, in Water Protection planning efforts with local west end, and a public access area on the Milk River 1890, constructed a community diversion dam in the municipalities and water districts to develop immediately downstream of the dam. vicinity of the present-day Fort Belknap Diversion Dam. management plans for the protection of the public drinking water supply. With 7,388 surface acres, the reservoir offers fishing for The lack of facilities to store early spring runoff prompted walleye, northern pike, perch and trout.