Briefs for Oct. 23, 2024
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Volunteers needed to help Lake Countycancer patients
News from Cheerful Heart, Inc.
LAKE COUNTY — Volunteers are the heart in Cheerful Heart and more are needed. As a service to cancer patients in Lake County who are currently in treatment, Cheerful Heart volunteers are the life blood of the local non-profit organization.
Volunteer duties Include:
— transport to treatment and medical appointments
— serve soup at the Oncology Clinic in Polson on Tuesdays
— prepare meals
— run errands
— walk dogs and other requested tasks
Cheerful Heart provides non-medical services at no charge to cancer patients. Cheerful Heart, Inc. has served cancer patients in Lake County since 2002. Those with questions or needs can call 406-883-3070. Check out the Cheerful Heart web site at: www.cheerfulheart.org or email: cheartinc@gmail.com.
Conservation Lease Program applications accepted
News from MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks
HELENA — Beginning today, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is accepting applications for its Habitat Conservation Lease Program.
A habitat conservation lease is a voluntary, incentive-based agreement between FWP and private landowners in which the landowner commits to specific land management practices that protect priority wildlife habitat. In turn, FWP pays landowners a one-time per-acre fee for the lease. These agreements have a term length of 30 and 40 years. The lease program is in addition to the conservation tools already available to landowners.
The focus of the Habitat Conservation Lease Program is primarily for prairie and wetland habitats, with a priority on sage-grouse core areas and other plains habitats. In areas critical to sage-grouse, these leases will ensure habitat protections that help keep populations healthy and allow the bird to remain off the Endangered Species List.
Habitat conservation leases will maintain native habitats by protecting them from specific disturbances including tillage, energy development, building construction and wetland filling or draining. Normal agricultural operations and noxious weed control will not be impacted.
The Habitat Conservation Lease Program potentially could protect up to 500,000 acres in the next five years.
Public access also will be part of the lease, but details are specific to each agreement.
More information and applications for the program are available on the FWP website at: fwp.mt.gov/conservation/habitat/habitat-conservation/lease-program. The deadline for applications is Nov. 30.
