The Gallatin Water Science Symposium was a day to inspire research that is driven by the challenges and needs of our community, and for our actions on the ground - from policy to restoration - to reflect best practices rooted in science.

That Gallatin Water Trust is a new initiative developed in partnership between the Four Corners Foundation and Trout Unlimited.

Over the past two years, the Gallatin Watershed Council has been leading a group of invested, thoughtful stakeholders across the Lower Gallatin Watershed in a quest to strategically plan for the future of water in the Gallatin Valley.

Landowners around the Gallatin Valley are receiving new federal funding to thin trees and treat noxious weeds on their properties, and officials said during an event on Wednesday that more applicants are in the queue.

Since Brad Pitt waded in the Gallatin River in 1992 during filming of “A River Runs Through It,” the population of Gallatin County has exploded from 50,000 residents to over 122,000.

Bozeman’s urban forest grew by 25 trees on Friday.

To mark Arbor Day, the city’s forestry division partnered with the Gallatin Watershed Council and Oboz Footwear to plant 25 willow, larch, birch and box elder trees in west Bozeman’s Bronken Park.

As development in and around Bozeman continues at a rapid clip, the city and a host of partner organizations are turning their focus to the Gallatin Valley’s natural resources.

Once upon a time, the East Gallatin River was thickly swaddled in willows and cottonwoods, dammed by beavers to the extent that the valley was an impassable swamp.

A project to thin trees and treat noxious weeds on public and private land around the Gallatin Valley has been awarded millions of dollars from the federal government through the Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership program.

It’s our hope that, together, we helped to create a healthier and more resilient landscape in the wake of the Bridger Foothills Fire. And the work is not finished.

Read about GWC’s first beaver mimicry project, and why we hope to see more of this low tech restoration within the Lower Gallatin Watershed.

If it weren’t for a dedicated crew of volunteers, Torie Haraldson wouldn’t have enough time or staff to monitor water quality and quantity in the East Gallatin River and its tributaries.

Summer has only officially been with us for two weeks, yet our changing climate has sent the mercury creeping over ninety degrees for many days already.

Kids and adults headed to the Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture on Saturday to enjoy music, watch short films, participate in fun activities and check out booths for the Gallatin Valley Earth Day Festival.