Activity Report Explorer

Bozeman • Entered by Nancy Ostlie on April 2, 2020

Ongoing daily meetings for Wilderness proposal with Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance partners

January 3, 2020 – March 3, 2020

Key Issue: Wilderness & Monument Designation/Protection
Activity Type: Other Administration (reporting, emails, calls, planning)
Key Partners: Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance, Gallatin Wildlife Association
Landscape/area: Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness (MT) (937032 acres)

Short Description of Activity

Research, planning, coordinating efforts for national Wilderness legislation in Custer Gallatin National Forest as part of group of 12 board members of Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance

Reflection/Evaluation

The Bozeman Broadband plays a leading role in these efforts to prepare and promote federal legislation for a significant addition to designated Wilderness in the northern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. We have accomplished a lot to bring recognition to our proposal for all eligible roadless lands in the northern GYE to the attention of the agencies through Forest Service Plan Revision participation and the public through extensive outreach and publicity efforts. Eight of the 12 board members of GYWA are active within Great Old Broads (paid members, involved) and all 12 are valued colleagues that I coordinate with daily, as does co-leader Linda Healow. My hours estimate is only for my own contribution. I will estimate other members of Broads’ hours in the pre-activity planning box so it is accounted for.
I have averaged at least four hours per day for 5 days a week for the first two months of 2020. That is conservative and has ‘felt like’ 8 hours a day six days a week.