Many people feel motivated to get involved during this legislative session. The Montana Environmental Information Center is sponsoring Citizen Lobby Days on Feb. 22 and March 17 in Helena. From the MEIC website:

Please join us on February 22nd for our second Citizen Lobby Day during the 2017 legislative session. You’ll receive an exclusive training from policy experts in the conservation community on lobbying and a briefing on our priority issues. We’ll focus on critical legislation affecting clean energy, the Smith River, clean air, climate change, and land use.

At our lobby day members and supporters will join friends and members from other conservation groups for a training starting in the morning in Helena. Then we will head up to the Capitol for lunch with legislators, and one-on-one appointments and hearings in the afternoon.

Learn more at: http://meic.org/events-montana-environmental-information-center/

NEW TRAILS AND OLD TALES: THAT’S WHAT BONNER IS MADE OF
By Jen Slayden, Make It Missoula

I occasionally enjoy taking the scenic route home to Bonner from Missoula, just to see what is new. I drive via the old Highway 10 which meanders  through East Missoula, past Marshall Mountain, into West Riverside, over the bridge to Milltown, and then on into Bonner. Looking back through the rear view mirror of the past twenty years, the physical transformation of the landscape has been remarkable. What once was undeveloped acreage in Bandmann Flats now sits the polished and manicured Canyon River Golf Course and community. As I drive by Marshall Mountain, memories of night skiing take me back to my college days when life was more freestyle in every way.

Today a new scene emerges as I approach West Riverside. A fresh pedestrian trail is materializing at highway 10 and Tamarack road which heads east.

PC: Jen Slayden

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