Agriculture, Workshops

Water Rights Workshops

The Lewis & Clark County Farm Bureau is hosting workshops on filing claims for exempt domestic wells. You may have received a letter about this in the past year. If you're interested, see the image below.
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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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