A new conservation easement project this spring helped protect 45 wetland acres on the North Shore of Flathead Lake! Linda and David Kurfess, in partnership with Flathead Land Trust, placed a conservation easement on 45-acres of their property along the…
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. Over the last ten years, River Steward Program partners have worked with ten landowners to…
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…
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…
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) have a strong conservation and restoration program in the Flathead Watershed to protect native fish and wildlife of cultural significance for the Tribes. In 2015, CSKT programs protected over 361 acres and 1.2…
The Flathead Land Trust helped protect over 300 acres of land important for birds and other wildlife in the Smith and Mission valleys last December. The projects were funded by the North American Wetland Conservation Act grant, which Flathead River…
