Category: Willow Projects
Join us in cutting dormant willows for an upcoming lake shore project on Lake Helena! We'll be meeting at the location noted below at 9 am on March 16. Volunteer agreements will be available to be signed that day. Please bring appropriate gear for the weather--boots, coat, hat, gloves, etc.--as well as your own loppers if you have them. We will have some available to share. Please RSVP to Joe Kremer-Herman at joe@lewisandclarkcd.org or call 406-389-3886!
Due to the fact that we discovered a stockpile of willow that had been harvested earlier this winter, that is still dormant, the event that we'd planned for March 25th has been cancelled. Thank you for your support! :) See below for the location of the volunteer event, and please RSVP contact Claudia Lyman, at clyman@macdnet.org.
If you've read much in our newsletters in the past few years, or follow the CD at all, you know how much we do with stream restoration. A recent storymap for the Musselshell River Bank Restoration highlights some really important work in another part of the state. This project, near Two Dot, was featured in a previous post and some of our CD people helped out in support of the project. Take a look and enjoy!A Guide to Riverbank Restoration Using Willow Soil Lifts Stay tuned to LCCD, because we will soon be helping out on 2 new projects on Lake Helena! If you are looking for more information on how to complete a project like this, give us a call at 406-449-5000 x3884 or x3886 or email chris@lewisandclarkcd.org or…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The attached video is from a KTVH news report. We thank them for their interest and for coming out to see the project. [/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwd2lkdGglM0QlMjI1NjAlMjIlMjBoZWlnaHQlM0QlMjIzMTUlMjIlMjBzcmMlM0QlMjJodHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRnd3dy55b3V0dWJlLmNvbSUyRmVtYmVkJTJGRFFzU0V5M1U4bU0lMjIlMjB0aXRsZSUzRCUyMllvdVR1YmUlMjB2aWRlbyUyMHBsYXllciUyMiUyMGZyYW1lYm9yZGVyJTNEJTIyMCUyMiUyMGFsbG93JTNEJTIyYWNjZWxlcm9tZXRlciUzQiUyMGF1dG9wbGF5JTNCJTIwY2xpcGJvYXJkLXdyaXRlJTNCJTIwZW5jcnlwdGVkLW1lZGlhJTNCJTIwZ3lyb3Njb3BlJTNCJTIwcGljdHVyZS1pbi1waWN0dXJlJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text] Several months ago, the CD was approached by a landowner on the north shore of Lake Helena. He had purchased the property and realized that he was losing a considerable amount of bank every year--that he is essentially paying taxes on about 4 acres of property that are now underwater. He was so interested in doing a different type of project, that he drove over to Musselshell County to help out on a Willow Soil Lift Project on the Musselshell River. After he helped out on that, he applied to the Conservation District's Cost Share Program and received approval for partial funding for his project.…
The Summer Issue of the Lewis & Clark Conservation District Newsletter, The Explorer, is out in e-form and will be hitting mailboxes in hard copy form soon! This newsletter has: an update and photos of a recent willow project on a local stream a story re-published from the Montana Outdoors Magazine (with permission) information about the Helena Field Office and how we are operating during the Covid-19 pandemic (hint: Phase 2 reopening!) Tips on improving garden soils a link to the Stream Gage Survey;and new faces in the Helena Field Office
Not to be confused with Prickly Pear Creek that starts in Jefferson County, Little Prickly Pear Creek starts out in the Canyon Creek area and flows through the hills next to Chevallier Drive before it breaks out of the hills and flows through Sieben Flats area. Several years ago, the FWP and others did a stream project on Little Prickly Pear Creek just before it flows into Wolf Creek Canyon, next to the Railroad. Over the years there had been some issues with the railroad embankment and so folks got together and worked on some stream restoration. In 2018, during run off, a high water event cause a large beaver dam to breach and whether it was that slug of water, or whether it was just high water and a…
