Mar 5, 2025 | Advocacy & Outreach
Photo by Rich Addicks This article first appeared in our Every Drop Counts column in Explore Big Sky. It is hard to quantify the extent of the damage that recent federal layoffs will have across the country, and here at home in Montana. The latest count is that...
Feb 18, 2025 | Water Monitoring
The work to improve the health of the Gallatin River cannot be done through a solitary lens. Our understanding of the challenges and the available solutions can only be made stronger by paying attention to similarities we see on other rivers around Montana. Findings...
Jan 12, 2024 | Advocacy & Outreach
Water is a limited resource. More and more headlines report threats to water supplies, both here in Montana and across the West. Our community water resources are stretched to capacity, and regional and local water systems face impacts from drought and population...
Jul 28, 2023 | River Stories
Most of us learned in grade school that the earth’s surface is 71% water, and all life forms are composed primarily of water. But did you know that only 3% of our planet’s water is freshwater, and freshwater species are vanishing three to five times faster than their...
Jul 28, 2023 | Water Conservation
Having a landscape that works with a nuanced climate is not an easy task. Terms like drought prone, fire prone, noxious, resilient, water-wise and so forth are tossed around in conversations focused on changing the way we plan for and mitigate the effects of our...
