Missoula County seeking nominations for Land Stewardship Award
Missoula County Community and Planning Services is now accepting nominations for the annual Land Stewardship Award. The award recognizes landowners and residents who take stewardship of land and water seriously and are embarking on projects and practices that make a difference for land, water, forests, wildlife and communities.
Community members and organizations are invited to nominate landowners and residents who are restoring, protecting or enhancing land and natural resources to ensure natural systems are maintained and strengthened. The nomination form is due Friday, May 1 and is available on the Community and Planning Services Open Lands website at http://missoula.co/stewardshipaward.
The award program, through the leadership of the county’s Open Lands Advisory Committee, recognizes the critical role private landowners and residents play in resource conservation through their stewardship activities.
“In addition to thanking these tireless, voluntary stewards for the work they do to protect our lands, the Land Stewardship Award allows us to capture the stories of the successes and challenges they’ve met along the way,” said Kylie Paul, natural resource specialist with the CAPS Parks, Trails & Open Lands division. “Staff can then identify key elements that helped achieve project outcomes, and we use these stories to highlight tools and programs landowners and residents can take advantage of to restore, enhance and protect land and water resources.”
The Land Stewardship Award has recognized previous recipients for their innovative and cooperative land management of forests, ranches and properties in the Swan, Blackfoot, Ninemile, Bonner and Gold Creek regions. An interactive map highlighting past recipients is online at http://missoula.co/stewardshipmap.
For more information about the program, call Paul at 406-258-4869 or email kpaul@missoulacounty.us.
US Census starts this week
The U.S. Census Bureau is carefully monitoring the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation and will follow the guidance of federal, state and local health authorities. We have also established the Census Bureau COVID-19 Internal Task Force to continuously monitor the situation and update our Pandemic Addendum to the Census Bureau Continuity of Operations (COOP) Plan.
From March 12-20, households will receive the first of several invitations to participate in the 2020 Census.
The U.S. Census Bureau is encouraging everyone to respond online (my2020census.gov) as soon as residents receive their invitation with the provided instructions to go online. Instructions include the web address for the online questionnaire in English as well as where to respond online in 12 additional languages, ensuring over 99% of U.S. households can respond online in their preferred language.
People can also call toll free (1-844-330-2020) to complete the census over the phone. The paper questionnaire can also be mailed once they receive it in the next few weeks. Of note, already in the first several days of the online component there have been over five million people who finished their census online.
The actual “door knocking” (non-response follow up) phase is set to begin next month and ramp up into May 2020 through the end of field operations over the summer. Those plans remain intact but can change depending on how self-response goes the next several weeks along with how public health is affected during that same time.
Missoula County Sheriff’s Office Call Activity March 10 – March 16
• 3/11, 3:14pm, 31XX Highway 83, Seeley Lake: Accident – No Injury
Seeley Lake Rural Fire District Response Log March 8 – March 14
• 3/8, Firehouse Drive, Seeley Lake: Medical
• 3/8, Highway 200, Ovando: Medical
• 3/14, Seeley Lane, Seeley Lake: Fire Unit Response
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