Event Category: Training Event

Join Southwest Decision Resource for a series of facilitation trainings in July and August both in-person and online! These workshops will prepare you to design and facilitate successful meetings to address natural resource issues in a community setting. Join the 8-hour virtual event July 27 and 29 or July 28 and 30.

Join Southwest Decision Resource for a series of facilitation trainings in July and August both in-person and online! These workshops will prepare you to design and facilitate successful meetings to address natural resource issues in a community setting. Join the 8-hour virtual event July 27 and 29 or July 28 and 30.

Please join Swan Valley Connections for a presentation by Tony Harwood, whose fire management career spans nearly 50 years, including almost three decades with the Salish & Kootenai Tribes Division of Fire, where he worked as the Prescribed Fire Specialist, Fire Program Manager, and Forest and Inventory Manager. 

Proliferation of invasive zebra and quagga mussels pose a host of challenges such as damaging or clogging industrial infrastructure, adversely impacting native fish and mussel populations, decreasing property value, and discouraging recreation. Whether you are a utility or a park and recreation department, invasive mussels are an expensive nuisance when populations aren’t controlled.

The Zebra and Quagga Mussel Mitigation training course will educate participants on the biology of mussels, distribution patterns, early identification and prevention techniques, the adverse impacts of invasive mussel infestations, control techniques, and touch on public communication strategies. This course will walk you through the steps of zebra and quagga mussel mitigation from monitoring and planning through control techniques and implementation.

Lewis & Clark CD will be hosting a riparian grazing workshop Tuesday, September 14^th in Augusta. Featuring guest speakers Dr. Clayton Marlow (MSU range professor) and Allen McNeal (McNeal Resources), we will discuss how grazing in stream areas can be a part of a rotation without damaging the stream system. Topics covered include stream form and function, grazing techniques that promote bank stabilization and flood resilience, and assistance programs.

As we help connect land and water conservation partners throughout Montana, we also aim to provide inspiration and learning opportunities to Montana’s conservation and community leaders. Each biennium, MWCC works with local conservation partners to host a Fall Watershed Tour where participants gather, share, and learn. This year, we are convening in Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front for three days of learning, peer exchanges, local storytelling, and on-the-ground project experiences that demonstrate the unique resource challenges and diverse conservation strategies implemented by local organizers across this iconic landscape.

Every year the Montana Section of the American Water Resources Association (Montana AWRA) convenes water managers, academics, consultants, students and others to share and generate ideas about Montana’s water resources.  If you work in water resource management, protection, or are simply interested in “all things water” in Montana, please join us!  We are accepting abstracts for professional, student, and Big Sky Watershed Corps presentations.

MWCC and Future West will co-host a two-day capacity-building workshop in Butte on November 11-12, 2021. Titled, “On the Leading Edge: Building Organizational and Community Resiliency in the New West,” the workshop will be split into two parts. Day 1 will focus on developing the capacity and sustainability of our local watershed conservation partner organizations. On Day 2, we will work to apply skills learned on Day 1 to community leadership in the face of climate and demographic changes.