Green Mountain
                 Conservation District

To Protect and Enhance the Natural Resources of the District and to Educate the Public about Natural Resource Concerns
"The Land bears an honest record of what men write on it."


GREEN MOUNTAIN
 

2952 HWY 200

P.O. BOX 1329

TROUT CREEK, MT 59874

PHONE: (406) 827-4833
email: GMCD@blackfoot.net

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Green Mountain Conservation District

Meeting Minutes

April 27, 2013

(to be approved 05/15/13)

Supervisors Present

Employees Present

Kent Wilby

Leona Gollen

Jay Stuckey

 

Dennis Schwehr

Advisors Present

Dillion Lee

Don Feist

Bill Naegeli

Kenny Breidinger

 

 

Associate Supervisors Present

 

 

Visitors Present

Meeting called to order at 6:45 p.m.

Meeting Agenda items not always taken in order that they appear          

Minutes from February 20th, 2013

  • A motion to approve last month’s meeting minutes as submitted was made by Jay, 2nd by Dillion, Motion Carried.
     

Financial Report

  • Leona reviewed the financial report with the board for this period.  A motions to approve the financial report was made by Dillion, 2nd by Jay, motion carried.

Administrator’s Report:

·         Reviewed the Administrator Grant.

    • A motion to approve the Administrator Grant as submitted was made by Dennis, 2nd by Dillion, Motion Carried.

·         We are sponsoring a 223 grant for Eurasian Milfoil Education Coordinator:

·         We are the sponsors for the Annual Area V meeting which will be help October 2nd

GMCD Website:  (greenmountaincd.org.)

  • Reviewed

 LCFWG Watershed Report

  1. Avista Appendix “E” Grant – Nothing to report for March
  2. Tuscor DNRC Grant

o    Coordinate with all vendors- Talked with Watershed Consulting about continuing work & budget for work in summer 2013.  Funding is available for this work

o    Schedule monitoring – summer 2013

o    Work with landowner 

o    Monitor project – ongoing and scheduled for summer 2013

o    Monitor grant status and funds –funding is available for projected monitoring & maintenance

o    Work with Avista grant writer on reporting requirements – provided update to Ruth and reviewed report

  1. Sanders RAC Tuscor Grant – to be closed out
  2. East Fork Elk Springer DEQ

o    Work with DEQ on monitoring plan – negotiated requirements for monitoring plan with DEQ,

o    Coordinate with all vendors - created contract for monitoring plan with RDG

o    Schedule monitoring – working with NRCS, Cabinet Ranger station to do monitoring

o    Work with landowner

o    Monitor project – will occur in April and summer 2013

o    Monitor grant status and funds – DEQ approved funds for monitoring plan

  1. Chapel Slide Forest Service Grant – will close out this funding and return to FS
  2. Chapel Slide Avista Grant

o    Monitor grant status and funds – will use this account to order seeds/plants for re-veg

  1. Chapel Slide NFWF Grant – project completed, funding received, closing out account
  2. LCFWG Coordinator & Prospect Creek Grant  - nothing in March
  3. Bull River Watershed Restoration Prioritization Update Grant -

o    Monitor project

o    Ensure assessment is completed – final report received, not reviewed yet

  1. Mainstem Bull River Riparian Forest Reveg Avista Grant

o    All permits

o    RFPs

o    Coordinate with all vendors – communicated with RDG in re landowner

o    Coordinate all needed work – updating FWP on landowner response

o    Work with landowner – constant conversations with Janice Schmidt, bad time for project, will probably look for another site, still possible in future

  1. East Fork Elk Creek Assessment RAC Grant

o    Coordinate with Forest Service on requirements – update at meeting, coord with Springer monitoring

  1. Chapel Slide Phase II Vegetation -

o    Coordinate with Forest Service on requirements – ordered all seed/plants for project

  1. Prospect Creek Restoration Project MWCC Grant – communication about reporting requirements.

o    Work with Prospect Creek Mitigation team

o    Monitor grant status and funds – will start deducting coord time from this account

MT FWP Report: 

·         The public comment period for the Draft Environmental Assessment was extended to April 19, 2013.  Several requests for extensions have been submitted and are currently under consideration.  Routine, nonlethal sampling will continue. 

·         Due to freezing temperatures the Thompson Falls fish ladder was shut down last week.  When reopened, there was some damage to instruments due to flooding.  Repairs are currently underway.   

NRCS Report: 

  • Our 2013 EQIP contracts have been obligated and we are designing the irrigation systems.
  • Snowpack levels are down from average and last year, the Lower Clark Fork is 82% of last year and 94% of average.
  • Several landowners are going on their thinning projects on our end of the county.
  • Troy and Don are meeting with Kent this Friday to layout and sample the soil health plots.

 

Old Business:

  • None

Building Repair Project: 

  • None

No-Till Drill/Gopher-Getter:

  •  

New Business:

  • Dennis gave an update on the Invasive Aquatic Weed Task Force
    • Received funds for herbicides in Noxon.
    • Received additional funds to assist with thefish stations.

Subdivision Review:

  • None

Time Allowed for comments from the Public not already on the agenda:

·         None
 

310 Activity
 

  • SW-06C-12 Possible violation at Spring Creek

·         Keep this on the agenda until spring.

·         Kent has called the care taker and he will call him back when the water is low enough to see anything.

·         SW-13C-13 Walker Possible Violation

·         A motion that this project is outside the scope of the 310 permit and is not a violation as defined by District Rules was made by Bill, 2nd by Dillion, motion carried.

Motion to adjourn at 7:35p.m. was made by Dillion, 2nd by Dennis, Motion carried

 

Respectfully Submitted.                                                                                                      Approved.

 

Leona Gollen                                                                                                                         Kent Wilby

Administrator                                                                                                                       Chairman

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