December 1, 2021 Meeting Agenda
CMR NWR CWG Mission, Purpose, and Goals
RSVP LINK (please RSVP by November 15, 2021)

To all past and present participants to the CMR Community Working Group,

How are you?

For many of us living and working in central and eastern Montana this year continues to challenge our response, individual and collective, to unprecedented dry conditions. How will we measure the short and long-term impact to our local businesses, communities, and our shared grassland landscape?

The CMR Community Working Group (CWG) – a project of the Missouri River Conservation Districts Council (MRCDC) – began in 2010 with a multi-stakeholder intention to address a number of ongoing complicated and complex natural resource issues inherent to the six counties surrounding the CMR Wildlife Refuge. Together we have created a forum committed to respectful and candid conversation on many diverse and controversial topics. Sometimes we find mutually supportive solutions, sometimes we don’t. Yet, we continue to make an honest effort to build understanding and trust capable of meeting the most intransigent unmet needs in our region.

COVID has dealt a blow to our efforts, along with personnel changes, to stay in steady conversation among one another. Certainly, the issues we face today are no less important than when we began. Our last virtual meeting was winter of 2020, when we learned of and discussed the Central Grasslands Roadmap. The CMR CWG Planning Committee is planning to hold a hybrid (in-person and virtual) meeting on December 1, 2021, from 10:00am-3:00pm in Winnett, Montana to share a meal with old and new players and to explore where we are today, and where we might go in the future.

Please RSVP by November 15 if you are planning to attend in-person, virtually, or not at all by clicking on this survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BXKYZFX (for meal count and/or to recieve the link to join the meeting virtually). We are looking forward to your thoughts and this opportunity to reconnect and brainstorm potential topics for 2022.

We have also attached the CMR CWG three-part goal for your review. Does this document still reflect our purpose and vision?

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you,
CMR CWG Planning Committee