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Northwest Connections Charity Profile
Northwest Connections engages in community based projects which assist land managers and private land owners in better understanding, conserving, and restoring critical habitats and habitat connections in the Swan Valley and surrounding areas. We are exploring new ways to integrate local knowledge and conventional scientific processes in the conservation of Montana's rural forest lands.
Northwest Connections conducts long term ecological monitoring efforts which 1) provide important levels of information on wildlife and habitat linkages within and across the Swan Valley, 2) employ local people, 3) provide field-based learning opportunities for students and visitors, 4) promote an ethic of land stewardship and the conservation of natural resources for future generations.
With our assistance, land owners and managers have current site specific information on how their properties connect to surrounding acreages; community members have functional ways to contribute their knowledge, ideas and energy to the task of ecosystem based management; students get into the field and learn about ecology and environmental issues first hand; and a diversity of citizens have the opportunity to explore their own connection to natural processes.
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Northwest Connections Volunteer Information
The Wildlands Volunteer Corps (WVC) recruits high-school aged volunteers from Montana to help with NwC's field work in the Swan Valley and surrounding wildlands. Since 1999, over 70 WVC crew members have contributed nearly 500 days in the field on behalf of public lands and natural resources in western Montana. In the summer of 2003 alone, WVC work efforts amounted to nearly $10,000 worth of volunteer labor for the US Forest Service.
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