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News from Gallatin Valley Land Trust
GVLT conserves southwest Montana's heritage of open landscapes, working farms and ranches, healthy rivers, and wildlife habitat; and creates trails to connect people, communities and the land. |
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FEBRUARY / 2010 |
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Make Tracks for Trails
Saturday Feb. 27 join GVLT and the Bridger Ski Foundation at Bohart Ranch!
Come join GVLT, Bridger Ski Foundation, and Bohart Ranch for a day of fun for all ages and abilities! Enjoy great skiing on beautifully groomed trails. Refreshments will be available in the warming hut all day. You can participate in skate and classic clinics lead by BSF, hands-on kids activities, a fun scramble race, the Golden Ski competition (see below) and - at end the afternoon - a party! Local businesses have donated fantastic prizes both for top fundraisers and as raffle items. We hope to see you there!
Golden Ski Teams - Time to gather 4 friends, coworkers or family and create a team, collect pledges and join us at Bohart - ski all day and add up your kilometers. Who can beat the BWAGS? The winning team takes home the Golden Ski and wins dinner for 8 from Montana Ale Works- five courses of gourmet small plates paired with fine wines. more information
Schedule: 9am to 4pm REGISTRATION- Bohart Ranch offers 35 km of groomed Nordic skiing & snowshoeing. Ski rentals & limited snowshoe rentals available at Bohart, 586-9070.
9am to 2pm GOLDEN SKI EVENT - Register your team, turn in your paid pledges & ski until 2pm. At 2pm return back to headquarters & let us know the number of kilometers skied. GVLT staff will be tracking the results.
11am to Noon BEGINNING SKI CLINCIS - Want to learn how to ski or freshen up? Bring your skis & join us at a beginning classic skiing lead by Norm Bishop or a beginning skate skiing lead by Sandy Knapp.
Noon LUNCH - Yummy soup from Sola Café, sweets and cornbread from The Bountiful Table, coffee & hot chocolate from Leaf 'n Bean, bread from On the Rise Bakery, fruit from Town and Country, & juice from Cardinal Distributing.
1 to 2pm INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED SKI CLINICS - Need some pointers? Bring your skis and take a class. Intermediate & advanced classic skiing lead by Chad Anderson or intermediate & advanced skate skiing lead by Doug McSpaden.
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to 2:30pm KID FEST -
Bridger Ski
Foundation's Youth Ski League is partnering with GVLT for this year's KID FEST. Join us for a variety of fun, playful kids
activities including an obstacle course. Children under 12 are free; children
under 5 need to be accompanied by an adult. Please bring skis or rent skis from
Bohart.
2:30 to 3pm 5K &1K SCRAMBLE - All ages can have fun competing in the 5k or 1k scramble. Prizes for the first place male & female finishers in the 5K & the youngest & oldest racers in the 1K.
3pm PARTY & RAFFLE - Join us for hot gumbo donated by Café Zydeco & cold beer donated by Bozeman Brewing Company. Join in the cheer, find out the Golden Ski team results & who gets to go home with raffle prizes!
More information is available on the GVLT website, including PDFs
of pledge forms and golden ski guidelines.
Be a sponsor, donate, or volunteer?
If you would like to be a Sponsor of the event, donate food or raffle items, or volunteer please call 587.8404 or email - Anne Tyler will assist you.
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| CONSERVATION |
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News from the Land - Conservation Update
In January, GVLT received one of the first four grants made by
Travelers for Open Land. The
funding was awarded for the new Half Circle Ranch conservation easement, which
protects an historic ranch bordering the Gallatin National Forest
and creates a permanent trail across private land into the Bridgers at North
Cottonwood Creek.
"We
had outstanding grant applications that truly demonstrate the quality and
diversity of land trust conservation projects across the state," said Mike
Scholz, owner of Buck's T-4 Lodge and founder of the Travelers program. "Funds
donated by Montana travelers and others are protecting the reasons we live here
and why most people travel to Montana - to experience the open lands, view
wildlife and recreate on private and public lands."
For the
full story, see http://travelersforopenland.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-program-announces-grants-to-protect.html
2010 Land Stewardship Fellow position
Applications for our 2010 Land Stewardship Fellow are due by March 1st. This 6-month, professional position helps GVLT complete critical, annual stewardship tasks that lay the foundation for high quality service to landowners and simultaneously provides an on-the-ground opportunity for current or aspiring land trust professionals. For more information, please visit our website or contact kate@gvlt.org.
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| TRAILS |
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Business Sponsors Needed for Trail Info Kiosks
GVLT is planning to install several new trail information kiosks next summer and we are seeking business sponsors to help underwrite the cost. Locations for new kiosks include the East Gallatin Recreation Area, Bozeman Pond, and two locations on the west side trail north of the Mall. We also need to update the map and display for the kiosk at the base of Peets Hill. Businesses that have sponsored kiosks over the last few years include: Allied Engineering, Colombo's Pizza, Delaney & Co., Hyalite Environmental, Ressler Motors, TD&H Engineering and Zoot Enterprises. If you would like your logo on a new trail information kiosk please contact Ted Lange for information about being a kiosk sponsor. |
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WAYS TO GIVE |
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Membership
Consider making a special gift
to celebrate GVLT's 20th anniversary year:
$20 special membership rate for new members so that we can double our membership to
2,000 members
$60
to celebrate sixty miles of Main Street to the Mountains
trails.
$360
to celebrate 36,000 acres of land conserved.
$10,000
to continue GVLT's legacy of trails and conservation.
To ensure that the next 20 years are as successful as the
first! Give now! |
| 20 YEARS - GVLT |
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Throughout our 20th Anniversary year GVLT's eNews will include highlights from our history.
GVLT's First Ski-a-Thon
Volunteers with two-way radios and clipboards monitored how many
kilometers skiers logged at GVLT's first Ski-a-Thon at Lone Mountain Ranch in
1993. Unlike Make Tracks for Trails, it was an event designed primarily
with hard core skiers in mind! Steve Bracken skied 36 km, but Russ
Tuckerman won the top fundraiser prize with $318 in pledges. Little more
than a footnote in our Spring 1993 newsletter, the event has grown and evolved
into our most important fundraiser. In total, the 1993 event raised
$1,600. This year, for our 18th annual Nordic skiing
fundraiser, we're hoping Make Tracks for Trails raises about 18-times what we
raised in 1993. And, as in recent years, our top fundraiser will likely
beat Russ' mark by a wide margin. The event has been so successful
because it's a lot of fun - now for all ages and abilities not just the hard
core. We hope you can join the fun at Bohart Ranch on February 27!
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IN THE NEWS
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Gallatin Valley Land Trust's recent
successes in private land conservation were featured in the local
media. Check out this video from KBZK Z-7
and this article in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.
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| FUNDRAISER |
Time is Running Out! Don't Miss Collages by Margaret Emerson at the Bozeman Public Library
Margaret Emerson's collages will
be on display in the Atrium Gallery at the Bozeman Public Library through
February 28, 2010. Emerson, a long time Bozeman
resident began working in this form in 1988. Since that time has created more
than 100 collages inspired by her travels, and informed by her intimate
knowledge, and love for the outdoors.
All work is available for
sale. Proceeds from this exhibit will benefit
the Gallatin Valley Land Trust and the Bozeman Public Library Foundation,
conserving southwest Montana's
heritage of open landscapes, and creating trails to connect people, communities
and the land. For more information about
the Library exhibit please call Laura Prindiville at
406/582-2425.
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