Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Photo Credit Harvey Locke Website Board & Staff Goals Events Maps Archives Contact Jack Potter Award An Importan Year-End Message from Headwaters Montana's Executive Director, Dave Hadden... November 26, 2013 Dear Dave We've had a very successful year at Headwaters Montana, and I want to tell you about it! And after you read this letter I hope you will make a financial donation in support of moving our groundbreaking work forward in 2014. Progress... Earlier this month, Monday, November 18 to be precise, Headwaters Montana signed the Whitefish Range Partnership Agreement along with over 25 other groups and individuals representing the full spectrum of users and interests in the Whitefish Range. They included the timber industry, mountain bikers, wilderness advocates, landowners, the recreation industry, tourism, hunters and anglers, backcountry horsemen, and others. (Read the Hungry Horse News story on the Whitefish Range Partnership here. Read the Missoulian story here.) We're at over $2,000 on our fall fundraising drive. Please join others who are helping protect the Flathead! We need to raise $16,000 before December 31 from individual conservationists like you to match the $50,000 in foundation grant income we receive and to keep working to protect the Flathead. Please make your tax deductible donation today. ~ Thank You! What's so significant about the Whitefish Range Partnership 1 of 5 1/27/14 10:27 AM

Agreement? All these groups and interests put aside decades of disagreement over Flathead National Forest management and agreed to a common set of recommendations for the 300,000 acre Whitefish Range. It took 13 months of meeting twice each month to develop the trust and the details of the Agreement. And it all happened because Headwaters Montana got the ball rolling three years ago and stuck with the project through thick and thin. The point is that advocating for reasonable conservation measures on the Flathead Forest (or any conservation issue in the Valley) was a hazardous occupation. A good part of the historic controversy was necessary and inevitable. The debate changed the conversation and wildlife and water quality improved incredibly over several decades. Grizzly populations rebounded, once trashed watershed recovered their fish populations, and wild country healed. However, the conservation benefits came at a high social cost as people opposed to conservation were forced to adjust, and conservationists took their lumps fighting for Nature against traditional, deep-pocketed interests. Many people, including the people who came to the Whitefish Range Partnership table in late 2012, still held to the divideand-concur mindset. They brought with them little or no trust of each other. Nevertheless the Partnership got underway and 13 months later the participants shattered their own 'ideological barriers' and produced an agreement that has, literally, opened a new beginning for the Whitefish Range, the Flathead National Forest, and the Flathead Valley community. YOUR CONSTANT COMMITMENT If you're reading this e-newsletter then you're likely a hiker, backpacker, hunter, fisherperson or general Nature lover. Make your constant love of the outdoors a model for your commitment to conservation. Become an automatic monthly donor to Headwaters Montana. Click the 'Donate Now' button below to get started. We greatly value and appreciate your donation at whatever level! ~ Thank You! Stay Connected Forward to a Friend Join the Mailing List And it all happened because Headwaters Montana was there at the very beginning pushing the idea of a collaborative group it dubbed "The Whitefish Range Partnership". I personally want to express my thanks to each member of the Partnership for their efforts, time and community-spirited involvement. And most of all for their willingness to find their interest imbedded in the interest of everyone else at the table. I also want to thank retired state senator and Secretary of State Bob Brown for chairing the meetings. Without his wisdom and legislative experience the Partnership might have 2 of 5 1/27/14 10:27 AM

have gone off the rails! And I want to single out the National Parks Conservation Association (Glacier Field Office) and the Montana Wilderness Association (Flathead-Kootenai Chapter) for their key involvement and support. Together we provided the structure and man and woman power to get the job done. You might be thinking, "So what happens now? Why does Headwaters Montana need my financial help now that the Agreement has been struck?" The truth is, getting to the Agreement was just the beginning of the journey. For the next two years at least the Flathead Forest will be revising the management plan for the entire forest. Headwaters Montana will be there to usher the Whitefish Agreement through that bigger effort. We will also be advocating for conservation for other parts of the Forest, like the Swan Front, Swan Valley, and the Mission Mountains. And we will be working to improve the disastrously bad Kootenai National Forest proposed land management plan. The work continues and we need your financial support to make success happen. Please donate today! Let me give you a couple more incentives to donate right now: The Cinnabar Foundation will match your donation dollar for dollar up to $2,000! Donate $100 or more and we will send you a complimentary Headwaters Montana ball cap (two styles to choose from! - See below). The IRS requires that we raise 1/3 of our funds from individuals like you. We must raise $16,000 this fall. Please help us meet our IRS match. EVERY dollar helps us get there! You can donate using the enclosed self-addressed return envelope, or by going to our website, www.headwatersmontana.org and clicking on the Donate Now button on the home page. Either way you dollars will stay in the valley and support local conservation. The Headwaters Montana board of directors join me in thanking you for your generous financial support. Please help us move forward to conserve the special places and qualities 3 of 5 1/27/14 10:27 AM

of the Flathead Valley by donating today. Thank you! Dave Hadden, Director 406-837-0783 / dave_hadden@headwatersmontana.org Your End-of-Year Support Each year we send you a paper letter asking for your end-of-year financial support. We raise over $50,000 a year in foundation support. But we value your financial support more. Your financial donation helps us meet the required IRS 33% private donor match. We must raise more than $16,000 this fall to meet this match. Will you please take a moment to click on the 'Donate Now' button above, right, and send your end-of-year donation? ~ Thank You! Whitefish Range October 2013. (Click here for full size image. Photo Credit: Steven Gnam) The Headwaters Montana Hat Show your friends that you contribute to conservation in the Flathead by wearing the Headwaters Montana hat. Donate $100 or more and we'll send it to as our thank you for your generous support. ~ We thank you now for donating today! Choose between Traditional Ball Cap and the Flat-Head Ball Cap. (Click images to enlarge.) HEADWATERS MONTANA INC 4068370783 info@headwatersmontana.org Forward this email This email was sent to info@headwatersmontana.org by dave_hadden@headwatersmontana.org Update Profile/Email Address Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe Privacy Policy. 4 of 5 1/27/14 10:27 AM

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