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Thanks for coming!
Thanks to everyone who dropped in to the MWCC Open House on Friday, November 6th!  We had a successful networking event and fundraiser.  If you missed us, check out our website for more information on our exciting new fundraising venture with the Ten Mile Tile Mural.  Whenever you're in Helena next, we hope you will drop by us at 334 Fuller Ave, Helena, MT.  The new mailing address is P.O. Box 1416 Helena, MT 59624.

Weigh in with River Network
River Network is launching an annual survey on healthy rivers. If you are involved in river protection and restoration, or care about your local stream, this survey is for you!  The survey itself is very short – only 15 questions – it should only take a few minutes to complete. This is a trend survey, so we will be repeating it for the next few years, providing a snapshot from which to compare change over time. As someone who cares about rivers, we really need your perspective.  Here is the survey link to begin: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RNTrendSurvey

Montana DNRC Aquifer Recharge Materials Available. See the DNRC Website.

Draft Guidelines for Water Rights Associated with Stream and Wetland Restoration Projects. 
Montana DNRC seeks comments regarding draft guidelines for water rights associated with stream and wetland restoration projects.  The meeting will be held on Thursday, December 10 from 1:30 to 3:30 at the Montana Historical Society auditorium located due east of the Capitol at 225 N. Roberts.  The purpose of this meeting is to hear your concerns and engage in a productive discussion on how best to improve these guidelines.

Montana FWP takes public comment on Milltown Park access deal.
Securing access to Montana's newest state park, the Milltown State Park, has stalled development of the park in the area around where the Milltown Dam was removed, but state Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials have hammered out a deal with International Paper Co., which offered to give the state a 16-acre parcel, six acres of which contained a landfill for which the state didn't want to take responsibility. The new deal gives the state 10 acres that avoid the landfill, and the state is taking public comment on the land deal through Nov. 25.

USFS takes public comment on land swap adjacent to Yellowstone Park.
The U.S. Forest Service and conservation agencies have been trying for three decades to acquire the Slip and Slide Ranch north of Yellowstone National Park, and now the agency is taking public comment through Dec. 7 on a land swap that would put those acres into public hands for two parcels of land that lie within William D. Morean's Shooting Star Ranch in the Cinnabar Basin northwest of Gardiner.

EPA and Partners Launch Challenge to Recycle Nutrients from Livestock Waste.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is partnering with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, pork and dairy producers, and environmental and scientific experts to launch the Nutrient Recycling Challenge, a competition to develop affordable technologies that recycle nutrients from livestock waste.  Phase I, which begins Nov. 16 and ends Jan. 15, calls for papers outlining ideas for these technologies. For more information: www.nutrientrecyclingchallenge.org.

David Brooks "Restoring the Shining Waters"
Thursday, Dec. 10th, 5:30-7:30pm at Fact & Fiction.  David Brooks will read from his new book "Restoring the Shining Waters: Superfund Success at Milltown, Montana" at Fact & Fiction in Missoula. Part of the proceeds from the evening's book sales will be donated to the Clark Fork Coalition.