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Letter to the Editor - Thanks to Hildebrand for important work in Beaver Creek Park

Editor,

I am a member of the Hill County Park Board and we would like to give a special thanks to Associate Professor Terri Hildebrand, Ph.D., from Montana State University-Northern’s College of Art, Sciences and Education. Terri, with assistance from Lou Hagener, who is part of the grazing committee for Beaver Creek Park,  and some of her students have taken on a long-term project to create and maintain a set of natural resource monitoring data on the ecological health and functioning of natural resources of Hill County’s Beaver Creek Park. This is something very important to all Hill County residents who own Beaver Creek Park.

The park is approximately 10,000 acres, 17 miles long by about 1 mile wide. This monitoring will be a continuing process over several years that will provide us with much-needed natural resource information we can use for the good of the park. Not being a short-term project but continual, Terri will provide data to help us know and access the health of our park over several years. It is so important to know what we can do now, what we need to do in the future and guide us on how to keep our park healthy so many can enjoy it for years to come.

  Terri Hildebrand and her students, while teaming up with Lou Hagener with his extensive experience in this area, will make their findings quite valuable. So thank you Terri Hildebrand, and all involved, for all the hard work and time it will take to provide us with this important data. This is invaluable to the residents of Hill County. 

Renelle Braaten

Havre

 

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