In The News

• Warming saps Colorado flows by 16% over 100 years

• ACLU sues feds to protect pipeline protesters’ rights

• NPS officials forced to tiptoe around climate change

• Colorado’s hot summer of dry ditches and empty reservoirs has left distressed farmers sweating: Will it get worse?

• Notes from Montana’s climate assessment roadshow

• MDT teaches students about bridge construction while protecting bull trout

• Creston-based Montana Artesian bottled water hits shelves

• Wyo. awaits a fracking boom. But where’s the water?

• AMID THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTICISM, STATES AND COUNTIES ARE DOING THEIR OWN CLIMATE ASSESSMENTS

• Glacier, Flathead Forest Updating 40 Year Old River Plan

Training and Resources

• HSPF Water Quality Parameter and Calibration Guidance

  This Water Quality Parameter and Calibration Guidance Technical Note was prepared by RESPEC Consulting and Services under contract to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA); Dr. Charles Regan was the MPCA Work Assignment Manager (WAM), and the individual who recognized the need for developing this Technical Note to make this information available to the HSPF […]

• Communicating Rates in a Changing Water Landscape

  While water is invaluable and essential, making sure water reaches us safely and is returned to nature responsibly is expensive–particularly considering the pressures water systems face from changing demographics, more extreme weather, and rapidly aging infrastructure. Utilities face competing realities: on the one hand, neither outside funding nor water utility rates have kept pace with […]

• Blackfeet Climate Change Adaptation Plan

  Gerald Wagner is the Director of the Blackfeet Environmental Office, a position he has held for the past 23 years. He has supervised various environmental media grants ranging from air quality and water quality, to non-point source and leaking underground storage tanks, and radon and blood lead levels during his tenure. Wagner has had an active solid […]

• Best Practices in Creating Nonprofit Position Descriptions

  Attracting the right volunteers or full-time employees to a nonprofit can be tricky. Today’s market is overflowing with nonprofit organizations. Careful and precise position description writing can help resolve this problem. 1. SELF-EXPLANATORY TITLE IS A MUST Big words fall on deaf ears when nonprofit organizations are concerned. People don’t like to see complex job titles when […]

• Understanding and Using Climate-Adaptation-Related Spatial Data in Regional Conservation Planning

  Climate-driven shifts in species and ecosystems are complicating efforts to conserve biodiversity at the landscape scale. Recognizing this challenge, agencies and non-governmental organizations are increasingly searching for tools and information that allow identification of areas that are key to enhancing resilience and adaptation potential of natural systems under climate change. AdaptWest is a spatial database […]

• Quick Tip: How To Use A Storytelling Grid To Develop Stories

  Stories have the power to rally individuals and transform communities. Unfortunately, it’s an uphill battle for most nonprofits. You may be struggling with leveraging stories for your crowdfunding campaign, your bosses may not understand what storytelling is, or maybe you’re just not sure where to start. There’s a solution! At 16NTC, we shared how you can master […]

• Board … CEO … Staff: Whose Job is it Anyway?

  Kent Stroman will bring real life insights and practical tools to equip CEOs, Board members, and staff alike to move their charity forward collaboratively.

• How to Work 40 Hours in 16.7 (The Simple Technique That Gave Me My Life Back)

  I used to work a lot — 60, 80, or even 100 hours a week… I let my work be a big part of how I defined myself. I wore those insane hours like a badge of honor…I loved telling people how “busy” I was…and how much I “had to do”. Sound familiar? Looking back, I realize I used my work […]

• Critical Source Area Identification And Bmp Selection: Supplement To Watershed Planning Handbook

  EPA has released a new document that helps watershed managers better target their restoration efforts where they matter most: critical source areas. Critical source areas are those areas within a watershed that contribute a disproportionately large amount of pollutants of concern to the identified water quality problems. They are generally considered to be places where high-level pollutant […]

• Success Through Local Leadership: The Gunnison Vibrancy Initiative Story

  The public process is hard to get right. Outreach can take more time than city staff usually has. Public meetings often draw the same crowd time after time. And making forward progress can feel impossible when a community just can’t seem to agree upon the issues. Like most places, these challenges felt all too familiar […]

Funding Opportunities

• Keepseagle Fast-Track Grants to Support Native Farmers and Ranchers

• Aquatic Invasive Species Grants

• Water Quality Mini-Grant

• CLIF Bar Family Foundation: Small Grants Program

• National Fish and Wildlife Foundation: National Wildlife Refuge Friends Grant Program

• Conservation Partners Program

• Healthy Watersheds Consortium

• Green Stormwater Infrastructure Grant

• Target Field Trip Grants

• Water Quality Projects in Camp, Godfrey Creek Watershed

Careers

• District Administrator- Eastern Sanders County CD

• Grants Administrator- Y2Y

• Outreach Coordinator & Grant Writer- AERO

• Field Instructor- Yellowstone Wildlife Ecology Program

• Field Intern- Yellowstone Winter Ecology Program

• Private Lands Biologist/Technician

• Associate Director- RiversEdge West

• Habitat Conservation Biologist (18141807)- MT FWP

• Program Coordinator-University of Montana’s Global Leadership Initiative

• Financial Controller- Ecology Project International

Upcoming Events