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    • Home
    • About
    • Board and Staff
    • Contact Us
    • STREAM PERMITTING
      • Stream Permitting
      • 310 EMERGENCY
    • Water Reservations
    • Meeting Documents
    • Current Projects
      • Fly Creek
      • ARBOR DAY
    • Additional Resources
    • News/Updates
    • PROJECT PORTFOLIO
      • Lake Elmo Projects
      • Salt Cedar Project
      • Mesonet Weather Station
      • Past Projects Gallery
    • YCD Learning Center
      • Education and Outreach
      • Upcoming Events
      • Yellowstone Watershed
    • 2024 Annual Work Plan
    • West End Reservoir Plan
    • BBWA/RMC Plan & Grants
    • Joint Application

Yellowstone Conservation District

Yellowstone Conservation DistrictYellowstone Conservation DistrictYellowstone Conservation District
  • Home
  • About
  • Board and Staff
  • Contact Us
  • STREAM PERMITTING
    • Stream Permitting
    • 310 EMERGENCY
  • Water Reservations
  • Meeting Documents
  • Current Projects
    • Fly Creek
    • ARBOR DAY
  • Additional Resources
  • News/Updates
  • PROJECT PORTFOLIO
    • Lake Elmo Projects
    • Salt Cedar Project
    • Mesonet Weather Station
    • Past Projects Gallery
  • YCD Learning Center
    • Education and Outreach
    • Upcoming Events
    • Yellowstone Watershed
  • 2024 Annual Work Plan
  • West End Reservoir Plan
  • BBWA/RMC Plan & Grants
  • Joint Application

What is conservation?

noun:

OTHER WORDS FOR CONSERVATION: care, husbandry, protection.

conservation [ kon-ser-vey-shuhn ]

the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.

conservation [ kon-ser-vey-shuhn ]

OTHER WORDS FOR CONSERVATION: care, husbandry, protection.

conservation [ kon-ser-vey-shuhn ]

official supervision of rivers, forests, and other natural resources in order to preserve and protect them through prudent management.

OTHER WORDS FOR CONSERVATION: care, husbandry, protection.

OTHER WORDS FOR CONSERVATION: care, husbandry, protection.

OTHER WORDS FOR CONSERVATION: care, husbandry, protection.

a district, river, forest, etc., under such supervision.

the careful utilization of a natural resource in order to prevent depletion.

the restoration and preservation of works of art.

Conservation Education Programming

Rolling Rivers Stream Table Experience

  • "Rolling Rivers trailers serve as teaching aids for watershed education programs. The trailers contain sand molded into winding rivers lined with a community or toy machinery, animals, vegetation, and houses. The flip of a pump switch brings the simulation to life as water flows throughout the virtual watershed. The trailers serve as an invaluable resource to explain watershed health principles to students of all ages. Students stand on the trailer’s steps while teachers and chaperones peer over their heads as they all watch the river erode a river bank. The trailers are used to enact outreach scenarios that focus on river energy, riparian health, erosion, diversions and dams, non-point source pollution and the effects of developments in floodplains and on river banks." dnrc.mt.gov
  • This is an OUTDOORS education experience and is weather/season dependent. 
  • Use of stream table trailer requires a level surface (such as an easily accessible parking lot) and access to water (hose/hydrant access ideal)
  • Contact us for more information!


Montana Envirothon

Envirothon is an event held annually by Cascade Conservation District to challenge youth to a competition involving Range, Soils, Aquatics, Wildlife, and Forestry. The competition involves a written test along with an oral presentation to solve a current issue.

  • https://cascadecd.com/envirothon
  • Yellowstone Conservation District has sponsorship options available for local teams wishing to participate. Contact us for more information! 

Noxious Weeds-Engaging Students in Habitat Conservation

Program details coming soon!

Aquatic Invasive Species

Keep an eye out for this up-coming opportunity. Details coming soon! 

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Join Our Movement


PlayCleanGo promotes awareness, understanding, and cooperation by providing a clear call to action to be informed, attentive and accountable for stopping the spread of all invasive species. We invite others with similar goals to utilize our materials. Join forces with like-minded organizations across North America and become a PlayCleanGo partner now!


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Don't Let it Loose!



Releasing a pet to the wild is never the right thing to do!

For the health of your pet, and the safety of our native wildlife, it’s never OK to release animals. Most pets released to the wild do not survive, and many suffer before they die. Pets are usually unable to find food or shelter in the wild and they are often an easy meal for another creature. If it does survive, your pet becomes an invasive species that native wildlife may not have the defenses to compete against. Invasive species cause harm to the environment and the economy.

National Campaign

Take Action Locally

Take Action Locally


PROTECT MONTANA WATERS FROM AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES

When recreating in Montana, protect our waters by following these aquatic invasive species laws.

  • CLEAN: Completely remove all mud, water and vegetation before leaving access area.
  • DRAIN: All water from watercraft and equipment.
  • DRY: Your watercraft and equipment. Aquatic invaders can survive only in water and wet areas.

MT FWP AIS

conservation activities

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The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.


Robert Swan

additional REsources for Educators

Ecosystem Matters

MT Agriculture in the Classroom

Soil Education Network

Ecosystem Matters is an interdisciplinary conservation education curriculum developed by Region 2 of the US Forest Service in 1995. It is jampacked with a range of excellent, hands-on lesson plans. Instructional activities within Ecosystem Matters are designed for easy use by both educators and resource managers. Classroom teachers, scout leaders, nature camp instructors, forest rangers, naturalists, and others will all find the activities relevant, fun, quick-to-prepare, and user-friendly.

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Soil Education Network

MT Agriculture in the Classroom

Soil Education Network

 The Soil Education Network is a project of the South Dakota Discovery Center made possible by support from the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service. The SD Discovery Center is located at 805 W Sioux Ave. Pierre, SD 57501. 605-224-8294. sd-discovery.org

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MT Agriculture in the Classroom

MT Agriculture in the Classroom

MT Agriculture in the Classroom

This agriculture curriculum program provides schools and communities with opportunities to learn about agriculture in a fun and effective way, and seeks to instill appreciation for local agriculture and food production.

Some students today may not realize where their food, fiber products, and alternative energy originate. Agriculture in the Classroom is working to provide educational opportunities to discover agriculture's many benefits for today and tomorrow.

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