News Archive 2014
News & Articles from the year 2014
Celebration of Local Natural and Cultural Heritage
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, Flathead Land Trust, Flathead Lakers, and Flathead River to Lake Initiative partners invite you to celebrate the conservation of a unique property on Flathead Lake’s beautiful north shore and the protection of the north shore's…
Bike and & Bird Tour, Saturday May 17
Join the Flathead Land Trust and Flathead River to Lake Initiative partners on a Bike and Bird tour on Saturday, May 17, from 9 am to noon. This fun outing will showcase protected wetlands, riparian forests, and farmland that help…
Volunteers help plant trees at Foys Bend
MT Conservation Corps and Flathead Valley Community College volunteers helped plant hundreds of willows on Saturday, May 3, 2014 along the Flathead River at Foys Bend to help MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks restore riparian habitat at their Foys Bend…
Smith Lake & West Valley Wetland Birding Tour
Photos, March 22, 2014 Signs of spring are here as large flocks of ducks, geese, swans, and other migratory waterfowl arrive in the Flathead Valley's wetlands scattered throughout the valley's farm fields and the shores of Flathead Lake. Over 26…
EAST FLATHEAD VALLEY EARLY MIGRATION FIELD TRIP
Flathead Audubon’s expert birder Craig Hohenberger will be leading an East Flathead Valley Early Migration bird field trip on Sunday, March 23 from 9 am to noon.Explore a wide variety of waterfowl, eagles, raptors, and other early migrants on a…
Flathead Lake North Shore property protected
A conservation project protecting 189 acres along the north shore of Flathead Lake was completed last Friday. The project was the result of a collaborative effort by landowner Darrell Worm, Flathead Land Trust, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and Bonneville…
Smith Lake & West Valley Wetland Birds Tour, Saturday, March 22, 1 PM
Join us on Saturday, March 22, from 1 - 4 p.m. on a bird watching tour around Smith Lake and West Valley with bird expert Dan Casey. Learn about birds that use some of the beautiful wetlands found in the…
FLT Awarded Wetland Protection Grant for Smith Lake Project
Flathead Land Trust has been awarded two grants to purchase a conservation easement on nearly 50 acres around Smith Lake west of Kalispell. The Small North America Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) grant and a Traveler’s for Open Lands grant will…
Welcome 2014 Flathead River Steward
Aaron Clausen is joining the Flathead River to Lake Initiative as our new Flathead River Steward. This is the second year partners are hosting a Big Sky Watershed Corps (associated with AmeriCorps) member to help initiative partners and interested landowners…