R2L News Spring 2018: West Valley Wetlands Conservation Project • Volunteers needed to monitor Owen Sowerwine Natural Area • Ranching for Rivers Funding Opportunity • New Flathead River to Lake Initiative website • NRCS District Conservationist Angel Rosario retires •…
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffet said it, and we are doing it. River Steward Program partners work with landowners to plant native trees and shrubs along the…
These majestic birds are coming back to northwest Montana and even nesting in Mission and Flathead Valley wetlands thanks to the persistent efforts of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The Tribes started reintroducing swans on the Flathead Reservation 20…
A secret discovered – pothole wetlands hidden northwest of Kalispell come alive at sunset in October as hundreds of sandhill cranes roost at a key feeding and resting site on their migration route. The Flathead Land Trust approached the landowners…
R2L News Dec 2017 • Key stopover wetlands for Sandhill cranes protected • Columbia Falls community recreation project launched • Volunteers plant native trees along Ashley Creek • West Valley Tour showcased Sandhill cranes and conservation project • New Flathead Watershed Sourcebook…
R2L News Dec 2016. 2016 land conservation accomplishments summary • Flathead Land Trust raising funds to protect key Sandhill Crane habitat and farmland • 2016 riparian restoration accomplishments • Fish, Wildlife and Parks headwaters conservation • Flathead River Commission seeks funding to improve Flathead…
In February, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the Trust for Public Land finalized a 7,000 acre easement in the Trumbull Creek watershed above Columbia Falls - headwaters to the River to Lake Initiative focus area. The Trumbull Creek Conservation…
Between 2006 and 2016, 11 landowners landowners along the Flathead River, nearby streams, and the North Shore of Flathead Lake worked with River to Lake partners to plant over 12,000 trees and shrubs to plant riparian forest buffers that help…
R2L partners protected over 700 acres this year - over 500 acres completed with funding from the large North American Wetlands Conservation grant secured by R2L partners and managed by the Flathead Land Trust. Conservation projects included: Brenneman Slough Project…
Join River to Lake partner efforts to protect the Flathead River and North Shore of Flathead Lake with a donation to the R2L ~ North Shore Conservation Fund! Flathead River to Lake Initiative partners recently created the " R2L ~…