9am – 12pm High School Writing Workshop High School Writing workshop with local high school teachers and the University of Montana School of Journalism with Nadia White and Matthew Frank – Augusta, Choteau and Fairfield high schools.
1pm – 4:30pm Field Trip Sun River Game Range Tour – Meet at the FW&P game checking station east end of Augusta
6pm – 7:30pm Dinner
Catered by Spices and Spurs. Drinks available from the Livery Saloon in the Stage Stop Inn.
7:30pm Narrated Photographic Presentation
This is the Rocky Mountain Front and the Crown of the Continent – Rick & Susie Graetz – The University of Montana
Saturday, September 14th
8:30am Introducing the Rocky Mountain Front – Mary Sexton, Choteau Area Port Authority
8:45am – 9:45am Rocky Mountain Front Wildlife – Brent Lonner, Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks Biologist
10am – 10:45am USFS – “The Bob” and “The Front” – Management, Opportunities, and Challenges – Mike Muñoz – District Ranger
11am – 11:40am Rocky Mountain Front History – Bill Cunningham, Historian & Conservationist
11:50am – 12:30pm Farming & Ranching on the Rocky Mountain Front
12:40pm – 1:15pm Covering News in Choteau – Courtney Duke Graves, Choteau Acantha Newspaper
Saturday 1:45pm – The Nature Conservancy Pine Butte Swamp Preserve – discussion with Nathan Birkeland of the Montana Nature Conservancy at the “School House” and an optional ascent of Pine Butte
4pm – 9pm Stay in Choteau Saturday evening and purchase some of the wonderful art of Shadows of the Past Art Auction and fundraiser, hosted by the Benefis Teton Medical Center.
