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Sunlight multiplied

by a million little
fractals fallen
from the sky.

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• Planet Earth

We looked out to the horizon and saw nothing but the rolling hills, white saline covered land, and irrigation pipes…LOTS of irrigation pipes.

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• Hailstone National Wildlife Refuge~Eastern Wildlands

If all goes according to plan, we face-off Chainsaw training in round one, Wilderness Advanced First-Aid (WAFA) training second, next we match-up at Summit against Leadership training, then finish with our rivals, Service Project Planning, in the finals. Daily stretch circles and determination have prepared us for this madness and now it all depends on our performance throughout the month, taking one training week at a time.

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• Central Divide

          Camp Mak-a-Dream Part 2 was four packed days of learning, teaching, and facilitating leadership skills with the state’s Field Crew Leaders.

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• Camp Mak-A-Dream

But then like a black fog lifting to reveal the valley of paradise a single flower bloomed up as if to defy the natural order. A wavering hand breached the air space and before we could regroup many a hand joined it in ranks.

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• Central Divide

The Youth Serve Montana Scholarship rewards up to 70 high school seniors, who have volunteered 100 hours in the last year, with a $1,000 scholarship to attend one of 20 Montana colleges and universities that are part of the Montana Campus Compact (http://www.mtcompact.org). If you successfully completed our Expedition program then you have completed the required 100 hours! The most competitive applications will show additional service above and beyond the MCC program, but fear not if all of your volunteer hours come from MCC-there’s always a chance-so get your application in, too!

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• Montana

I was inspired and invigorated by two trainings I attended this last month. The first was the Water Words that Work training in Great Falls. This was a hands-on workshop which challenged you to make your message, through your outreach and education efforts, accessible to everyone. We don’t realize it because we are talking with other water professionals, but much of our everyday writing or speaking on the subject of water makes about as much sense as IT help professionals or mechanics talking to each other. The big message that I got from this workshop was that to involve people, they need to feel as if they are making a difference. And for them to feel that they are making a difference, people need to know what they can do to make this difference and see that others are doing the same (pictures of people and faces are very important in outreach materials).

The 2nd inspiring training was at the symposium. I attended a talk by Bob Fitzgerald, who has committed himself to social causes and service his entire life. It was inspiring to see how rewarding that work was and how much it fulfilled both him and other people. Both his talk and Pam Gerwe and Mike Jopeck’s talk compelled me to want to become more involved in my local community. Pam and Mike talked about just the small steps they took to engage their community which added up to larger steps and, eventually, a thriving farm. All in all, it was an enlivening symposium, with all the like-minded people sharing their positive experiences and stories.

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• Great Falls, MT

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• Eastern Wildlands

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• Western Wildlands

Because this event occurred later in the month, it sticks out most in my mind. On February 24th, I made a presentation to about 40 attendees at the ServeMontana Symposium in Helena. Although Gary was supposed to accompany and perform the majority of the presentation, he needed to attend to family matters back home in Illinois and left it in my hands. None of the other Executive Board members were able to attend either. I told them all I was “shaking in my boots,” but they all reported back that they had utmost confidence in me. Anyway, I used one of Gary’s past presentations and it went very well. What struck me the most was how easy the knowledge and anecdotes flowed. I was relieved to realize that after 4 months, I know more about how the complex organization functions than I thought. 

Sara Schmidt
Big Sky Watershed Corps AmeriCorps member at Blackfoot Challenge

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• Helena

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• Somewhere in the Western Wildlands

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• Central Divide

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• Big Creek Cabin

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• West Boulder, MT

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• Clark Fork Coalition, Missoula, MT.

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