The Community's Stream: Broadwater County Celebrates Successful Restoration of Deep Creek
Landowners, state and federal agencies, nonprofit groups, volunteers, and the Broadwater Conservation District (CD) worked to restore Deep Creek.
Landowners, state and federal agencies, nonprofit groups, volunteers, and the Broadwater Conservation District (CD) worked to restore Deep Creek.
NRCS grant funding helped to buoy the generous community donations of time, funds, and materials used to complete the new community garden in Broadus, Montana.
The Ennis community came together to plant a pollinator garden at the Ennis school in partnership with the Madison Conservation District and Madison Farm to Fork.
The J Bar L Ranch manager, Stephen Becklund, has transitioned several old alfalfa fields to perennial pastures that provide good cattle forage and opportunities for intensive rotation grazing.
The Bench Ranch has been using intensive, rotational grazing for 35 years to improve soil health and forage production.
The Key O Ranch, operated by the Keogh family, has been working with NRCS for decades to improve their rangeland health through grazing management to produce healthy cattle, clean water, and wildlife habitat.
The Kamps family farm in the Gallatin Valley is conserved through an easement completed in partnership with the Gallatin Valley Land Trust, Gallatin County Open Lands program, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Meet ranchers who are shifting the management paradigm and discovering the benefits healthy soil has for their forage, animals, and community.
The Auer family, near Broadview, has been managing change on their farm for generations.
Bret Lesh of Cross W ranch was one of the first ranchers in Carter County to participate in the Sage Grouse Initiative, improving his grazinglands and sage grouse habitat.