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| West Fork of the Bitterroot River |
The Bitterroot’s Legacy of Clean Water…
There
are many places in the world with severely polluted water. Places where
you couldn’t imagine swimming in the water, let alone drinking it. Here
in the Bitterroot
Valley, we have access to
clean water and BRWF plans to keep it that way—and we need your help!
Nearly
100 volunteers are needed to clean up more than 100 floatable miles of the
Bitterroot! Grab a trash bag from a local fly shop and walk or float a
stretch of river with family and friends while you do your part to help keep
our water clean.
With
years of collecting everything from fishing poles and parts of canoes to car
doors and bed mattresses, the Bitterroot River Clean-Up from Sula to Missoula has been an
integral part of keeping our river beautiful.
At
4:00pm, turn in your bag of trash and join us for the volunteer celebration BBQ
at Angler’s Roost. Enjoy live music from Kirby Erickson and his three
piece band and help yourself to burgers and brats - free to all clean up
participants! BBQ and music open to non-participants for a $5
suggested donation.
What
better way to enjoy one of the last days of summer then on the river with
family and friends, making a difference in our community?
To
sign-up and get more details, call us at 375-2272 or e-mail us at brwaterforum@bitterroot.net.
Please RSVP if you want to help out – we need to know where to
station all volunteers!
Thanks for Rooting for Riverfest in the Root!
2012
marked the second successful Riverfest in
the Root! Thanks to everyone who turned out and had a great day
celebrating our river. We would like to take a moment to once again thank
our generous sponsors who helped make Riverfest in the Root a great
success! Special thanks goes to:
GlaxoSmithKline
~ Bitterroot Conservation District ~ The Rapp Family
Foundation
Allegra ~
Big Sky Tents ~ Blacksmith Brewing Company ~ Evans Ace
Hardware ~ Fly Fishs Eddy O ~ Geum Environmental
Consulting ~
Greener Montana Property
Management, LLC. ~ Kinetico ~ Osprey
Outfitters ~ Pigman Builders ~ The Trail 103.3
~ Western Flies and Guides
And
a big thanks to all of our dedicated and hard working volunteers who made
Riverfest in the Root such a success! Special thanks to:
Keystone to Discovery Afterschool
Program ~ Bitterroot Ecological Awareness Resources (B.E.A.R)
~ Montana
Conservation Corps
Between
the Watershed Trailer, an exotic animal presentation, and music from Joan Zen
and her Funky 5 Piece Band, the day was filled with fun and smiles for
everyone! We are lucky to have such a beautiful park in our community and
people who strive to protect our water resources.
Thank
you for supporting BRWF and we look forward to providing our third annual (and
free!) Riverfest in the Root next year!
Heather Mullee
Executive
Director
Bitter Root Water Forum
Clean
Water: All Users, All Generations
P.O. Box 1247
Hamilton, MT 59840
406-375-2272
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