Flathead Watershed News
Classic SOT: Bigfork Wastewater Treatment Plant
Julie Spencer from the Bigfork Water and Sewer District and Robert Millspaugh from Flathead Lake Brewing Company talk about the Bigfork Treatment Plant, wastewater management, and how the they have partnered together to ensure the brewery's waste helps the treatment plant, which in turn helps Keep Flathead Lake Blue!
Save the date… August 17
Join us for the Flathead Lakers Annual Meeting, with keynote speaker, longtime Flathead Laker, and former NBA coach, Phil Jackson.
The evening of August 17, 2021 at the Flathead Lakers Offices, Salish Building, Polson.
2021 Montana State Legislature
As the Watchdogs of Flathead Lake, we’re following bills in the 2021 Legislative Session that potentially impact the Flathead Watershed.
Learn more about SB 115 and HB152.
Flathead Lake Monitor Fall 2020
Check out the fall edition of the Flathead Lake Monitor, including Bad Rock Canyon Conservation Project, citizen science, our watershed mural, and more!
It's the Journey and the Destination: Wolves in Montana
Enjoy this Science on Tap holiday classic from December 5, 2017 with Diane Boyd, MT FWP.
A wooden boat for Bad Rock
We would like to thank Greg McCormick for his generous donation of a beautiful wooden boat, and congratulation to Mark Sandry for his successful bid. We wish you many special moments out on your new boat!
We are grateful to both Greg and Mark for helping us kick start our fundraising efforts this upcoming year to protect this magnificent place in our watershed.
Building support for Bad Rock Canyon
Learn more about the Bad Rock Canyon Project, and the support that is building around the watershed.
Online wooden boat auction to benefit conservation.
A beautiful wooden boat restored by Greg McCormick, a Polson resident and Lakers member, is up for auction online through December 1st. The auction will benefit the Bad Rock Canyon Conservation Project.
Science on Tap is taking a break.
We are all combating screen fatigue, and it is still too soon to gather. Let's take a break. Get outside and enjoy the cold winter air and a quiet moment, or zoom with your friends and family. Stay safe and healthy. Please wear a mask, and we will be back soon.
Discover our watershed community mural!
Watch our YouTube video and discover our ‘Watershed Moment’ community mural.
Flathead River to Lake Initiative partners look to conserve 800 acres in Columbia Falls
We are excited to announce that we will be working with our Flathead R2L Initiative partners to help purchase 800 acres along the Flathead River near Columbia Falls.
Wall art mural for the Flathead watershed community
As a gift to the Flathead Lake community, the Flathead Lakers will be installing a wall art mural outside our offices in the Salish Building in Polson. The mural was designed to honor the natural beauty, tribal culture, history, and wildlife of Flathead Lake, one of most pristine and scenic lakes of its size in the world.
Lakers host virtual annual meeting
It was an unusual annual meeting this year, held on August 13 outside our Salish Building offices… and on Zoom.
Flathead Lakers welcome Eric Witts, SKC intern
Eric Witts, junior at SKC, is interning with the Flathead Lakers, focusing on the video archives of Science on Tap-Flathead.
Flathead River Conservation Project Completed
Thanks to the generous support from so many of our members last year, we raised the funding needed to protect 155 acres along the Flathead River, …
Did you know?
Learn ten things that you can do around your home and in your daily life to help protect our watershed and clean water.
Summer is coming – calling all citizen scientists
Our citizen science volunteers will be out on the water again this summer measuring water clarity and studying periphyton (slime on rocks) around Flathead Lake. Become a volunteer!
Lakers seeks amendment to Water Rights Protection Act
With support from Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes, the Flathead Lakers submitted a letter to state leaders requesting an amendment to the draft of the Montana Water …