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Meetings and Events

This is the LWG community events and activities page. Upcoming watershed group meetings
as well as special meetings, activities and events of general interest to the Lolo watershed community will be listed here.

 Date / Location                               Meeting or Event
 

Wednesday Dec. 8, '10, 6:30- 8:30 pm

Mill Creek Steakhouse

The King Ranch Golf Course,

17775 Mullan Road in Frenchtown

 

Mapping Dynamic Rivers to Understand their History—and Future:

A Channel Migration Study of the Clark Fork River

between Missoula and Huson

 

An Evening Presentation and Discussion with Karin Boyd,

Applied Geomorphology

 

Hosted by Missoula Conservation District, Missoula Water Quality District, and Missoula County Rural Initiatives

 

 

PDF with full info

 

Wednesday, Dec. 1 '10
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Lolo Community Center

Lolo Watershed Group General Public Meeting
Presenters:

Katie Gaut, Clark Fork Coalition:
     Results of Lolo Creek Flow Monitoring Project

Zach Crete, UM grad student:
     Results of Macroinvertebrate study on Lolo Creek

LWG Annual Elections for Board of Directors:
     To nominate yourself or someone else, contact us...
     or just come to the meeting and get involved!

Discussion on Kearl Module Transportation Project "Big Rigs":
     Share your concerns, ask questions, get more information
Wednesday, May 19 '10
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Lolo Community Center
Lolo Watershed Group General Public Meeting
Presenters:
Chris Bryant, The Nature Conservancy: Celebration* & Update      on the Montana Legacy Project's final transfer of Plum      
     Creek lands to the Lolo National Forest

Paul Matter
, Lolo National Forest: Challenges & Opportunities      for LNF's newly-acquired Plum Creek lands on Lolo Creek

John Wolverton
, Sierra Club: Update on the Kearl Module
     Transportation Project & proposed shipments of tar sands
     mining equipment from South Korea to Canada through
     Idaho and Montana (via Hwy 12 along Lolo Creek and Hwy
     200 along the Blackfoot River).

For more information contact:
Wendy Sturgis at  273-2446  or wendysturgis@bresnan.net

* Celebration means CAKE!!!!
Wednesday, Jan. 27 '10
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Lolo Community Center
 Lolo Watershed Group General Public Meeting
     Agenda:
  • Presentation by Katie Gaut, Montana Water Trust:    Flow Monitoring Data from Lolo Creek, summer 2009
  • Official "Kick-off" of grant from MT Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to LWG to write a Draft Watershed Restoration Plan for Lolo Creek

Tuesday, Nov. 17 2009

 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Lolo Community Center

Lolo Watershed Group General Public Meeting
Co-Hosted by the Clark Fork Coalition

Topic:  A Community Forum on Riparian Protections
            in Missoula County


Panelists:
Collin Bangs, Missoula Organization of Realtors
Liz Jones, Big Hole Watershed Committee & Beaverhead
     Planning Board
Ladd Knotek, MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks Fisheries Biologist
Brett Kulina, Northern Lights Development
Facilitator: Wendy Sturgis, Lolo Watershed Group

Questions? email Brianna Randall at brianna@clarkfork.org
February 4, 2009
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Lolo Community Center

LWG General Meeting

Agenda:

* Update on the Montana Legacy Project: status of Plum Creek lands along Lolo Creek. Presenters: Chris Bryant, The Nature Conservancy and Mike Kantor, Lolo resident and past LWG Board member

 

* Unveiling of the LWG's new website & maps of the Lolo Creek watershed (showing watershed boundaries, water rights, irrigation ditches, monitoring sites & more!)

 

* Updates on erosion & proposed streambank stabilization projects;  ideas for restoration projects

 

Reminder: Proposals for cost-share grants from the Missoula County Weed District are due February 1.

Call Alan Knudsen at 258-4219, email alknudsen@missoulaeduplace.org. More info at http://missoulaeduplace.org/weeds_services_grants_county.shtml