310 Permits, Budget, Flooding, Meeting Minutes, Meeting Notices, Meetings, NRCS, Planning, Programs

July Conservation District Board meeting and Local Work Group meeting

The next regular meeting of the Lewis & Clark Conservation District Board will be Thursday July 11, 2019 at the Helena Field Office, 790 Colleen Street, Helena MT.  The meeting will begin at 8:30 am.   Following the regular meeting, the Conservation District will convene the Lewis & Clark County Local Work Group to discuss long range planning for NRCS funding in the county.  That meeting will begin at 10:30 am. June meeting minutes July Meeting notice/agenda Local Work Group notice  
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Employees, Meetings

Public Hearing

The Lewis and Clark Conservation District will hold a public hearing on Monday, June 17, 2019 from 9-10 am at the Helena USDA Service Center, 790 Colleen Street, Helena, Montana. The purpose of the public hearing will be to review the Conservation District budget and to consider continuing to levy a permissive medical mill to cover employee benefits. For more information, contact Chris Evans, District Administrator at 406-449-5000 ext. 5, 790 Colleen Street, Helena, Montana, lccd@mt.net.
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310 Permits, Budget, Cost Share, Meeting Minutes, Meeting Notices, Meetings, Planning, Programs

May 9, 2019 Regular Board Meeting

The next regular meeting of the Lewis & Clark Conservation District will be May 9, 2019. It will take place at the Augusta Youth Center, Main Street in Augusta Montana and will begin at 1 pm. This meeting will be followed, in the same location, at 6 pm by the 2nd of 4 Natural Resource Planning Community meetings. All meetings of the Conservation District are open to the public. May meeting agenda April meeting minutes
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310 Permits, Agriculture, Budget, Cost Share, Meeting Minutes, Meeting Notices, Meetings, NRCS, Programs

April Board Meeting

The next regular meeting of the Lewis & Clark Conservation District will be April 11, 2019 and will take place in the USDA Service Center Conference Room, 790 Colleen Street, Helena MT 59601.  All meetings of the Conservation District are open to the public. March meeting minutes April agenda In May the CD is co-hosting natural resource planning meetings across Lewis & Clark County along with the NRCS staff from the Helena Field Office. These meetings will be very important for agricultural landowners in the county who hope to utilize EQIP funds from NRCS in coming years, since they are…
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Agriculture, Cost Share, Meetings, NRCS, Planning, Programs

Montana Focused Conservation-A District Perspective

            Montana Focused Conservation; the newest buzzword, along with “moving the needle”, “random acts of conservation”, “targeted investment”, coming to a Field Office near you in Montana.             The CD has been working hard to determine how this will affect our traditional customers, agricultural landowners.  The biggest change is that even though landowners will still be able to submit applications for EQIP, funds will only be available in a county under that program in targeted or focused fund pools.  The so-called “shotgun” approach will no longer be used.             For example, let’s say that you as a landowner would like…
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310 Permits, Budget, Meetings

March 2019 meeting

In hopes of getting a quorum for our next board meeting, the Lewis & Clark Conservation District is rescheduling the meeting for March 21, 2019. It will be held at the USDA Service Center, 790 Colleen Street, Helena MT 59601. It will begin at 1 p.m. If you have any questions please contact the CD office at 406-449-5000 ext. 5.
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