Cottonwood planting set in the Missouri Breaks monument

Press release

The Friends of the Missouri Breaks Monument and the Bureau of Land Management have invited people to join the sixth annual cottonwood planting event in the Upper Missouri River Breaks monument.

This year the plantings will take place May 5 and May 12 at Bailey Hazlewood. Volunteers can either camp the night before at Wood Bottom Campground or plan to meet at 9 a.m. on the day of the event at Wood Bottom.

The cooperative project was started to combat the loss of cottonwood trees within the monument’s ecosystem. Cottonwoods are a keystone species in the Breaks; however, in the past...