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Ledger Looking Back 25 Years: 9/22/2024

September 22, 1999

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) recently organized a tour of riparian-area restoration and management projects in the Belgrade and Whitehall areas to encourage healthier riparian zones. Cory and Diane Fitzgerald near Whitehall have a different management strategy. Along with managing cattle grazing on their riparian areas, they must also manage a large elk herd that has migrated to lower-elevation private ground due to recreational pressure in their traditional calving areas. Communities working together at the local level will enable policy to be changed t...

 

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