Mission
The mission of the Bitter Root Resource Conservation and Development Area, Inc. is to promote conscientious development of the area's natural and human resources, while maintaining or improving the quality of life in Mineral, Missoula and Ravalli Counties, Montana.
Featured Event
Kids—2011 Salish-Bitterroot Culture Camp brought 13 youth from the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation to camp with 8 Bitterroot Valley youth on the Bitterroot landscape they both call home in an effort to connect the youth to the land, their cultures and each other.
Current News
By Perry Backus: Ravalli Republic
The Bitterroot RC&D has $1.3 million in grants for fuel mitigation work on private timberlands in Ravalli, Missoula and Mineral counties.
Now all they need are landowners willing to share the cost to make their properties safer from wildfire.
"We want to get the word out to people and let them know that this money is available," said RC&D community forester Byron Bonney. "Right now, we're kind of lacking in applications."
The Bitterroot RC&D received five grants for the three-county area in the last funding cycle that began in September. So far, Bonney said only about $100,000 has been obligated. Read more...
Featured News
Most who are familiar with the Bitter Root Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Council know it’s a treasure for our region, but it’s worth was proven recently when members of the Ravalli, Missoula and Mineral County Council were recognized as the 2010 RC&D Council of the Year by the National Association of RC&D Councils.
The National Association recognized the outstanding efforts of the Bitter Root RC&D at a National Leadership Conference in Washington, DC on February 14, 2011 and subsequently presented the award to the Bitter Root RC&D at the Western RC&D Association Conference in Lewiston, Idaho on March 16th. Read more...