May Board Meeting

310 Permits, Budget, Meeting Minutes, Meeting Notices, Meetings
The next regular board meeting of the Lewis & Clark Conservation District will be May 12, 2016.  The meeting will take place at the Augusta Youth Center, on main street, in Augusta Montana.  It will begin at 1 p.m. The minutes to the last board meeting are here and the notice and agenda for the May meeting are here. Conservation District meetings are open to the public and anyone is welcome to attend.  If you have any questions, please contact the CD office at lccd@mt.net or 406-449-5000 ext. 112.
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April Board Meeting

310 Permits, Meeting Minutes, Meeting Notices, Meetings
The next regular meeting of the Lewis & Clark Conservation District will be Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 1 p.m. at the USDA Service Center Conference Room, 790 Colleen Street, Helena MT 59601.   The Notice and Agenda can be found here and the minutes from the March meeting here.   The public is always welcome to attend any meeting of the Board of Supervisors.
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Cost Share Program

310 Permits, Cost Share, Programs
The Lewis & Clark Conservation District Board of Supervisors has approved a Cost Share Program for 2016.  They have allocated $7500 of the budget for the year for project work by landowners.  Practices include--but are not limited to--culvert replacement, cross-fencing, riparian area fencing, grass and/or pollinator seeding, irrigation diversion improvements, tree/shrub planting, etc.  If you are interested, or know someone who might be, download the application and get it in to us.  If it's a project that we can help with, we can provide up to 50% of the cost of the project or $2500, whichever comes first.  Multiple practices can be applied for on one application. There is no deadline for these applications, but the project must be done this year and must be done in Lewis & Clark County…
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The view out my window

310 Permits, Employees, Meetings
I am out on sick leave today...caught the local crud that's going around I guess.  Ashley is in the office today, but anyone seeking 310 permits from Thursday's board meeting will have to wait til tomorrow.  I'll be mailing/emailing them out in the morning when I'm back in the office.  In the meantime, it's tea and toast and naps for me.  Below is a screen capture from my weather cam looking roughly south west over the valley.  Windy and lots of clouds today.
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Board Meeting for February

310 Permits, Budget, Meeting Minutes, Meeting Notices, Meetings, Planning
The next regular board meeting of the Lewis & Clark Conservation District Board of Supervisors will take place February 11, 2016 at 1 pm in the USDA Service Center Conference Room, 790 Colleen Street, Helena MT 59601.   Due to the fact that the January meeting was cancelled, the board will be reviewing and hopefully approving, the 2016 Budget and 2016 Annual Plan of Operations. Once approved, both of those documents will be posted on the website.   The minutes for the December 2015 meeting are available here, pending approval.  The agenda and notice for the meeting in February is here.  
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Special Meeting

310 Permits, Meetings
There will be a special meeting of the Lewis & Clark Conservation District on Thursday September 24 at 7:30 a.m. at 790 Colleen Street, Helena MT 59601.  The purpose of the meeting is to review an emergency 310 for Mike Wirth for a project on Gladstone Creek.
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