Register Online Today for GYC's 24^th Annual Meeting

Dear Supporter,

	Riprap alongside the Yellowstone River would prevent the river from naturally flowing onto its floodplain during spring runoff. The Army Corp of Engineers is developing a plan to determine under what circumstance riprap projects would be approved. Contact the Corps today

This spring marks a decade since the historic floods of 1996 and 1997 sparked an unprecedented wave of bank stabilization activity along the Upper Yellowstone River in Park County, Montana. Now, following years of public meetings, millions of dollars worth of studies, and considerable national media attention, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is finally poised to develop a Special Area Management Plan (SAMP) for the Upper Yellowstone River. That plan will determine whether the Yellowstone River will remain the longest free-flowing river in the Lower 48 states, or whether it's currents will eventually be shackled between ugly riprap walls to accommodate exclusive new trophy homes along its banks. As the principal agency charged with issuing federal Clean Water Act permits to construct bank stabilization and flood control projects, the Corps of Engineers holds the fate of the Upper Yellowstone River in its hands.

If you treasure the Upper Yellowstone River for its clean water, spectacular scenery, world-renowned trout fishing, and abundant wildlife, please send the Corps of Engineers a letter today urging them to write a Special Area Management Plan that caps bank stabilization activity at current levels and calls on Congress to provide $20 million in funding to purchase ecologically-important wetlands and other wildlife habitat that otherwise will fall prey to development.

This is your one opportunity to ask the Corps to include a real conservation alternative in its Special Area Management Plan. Public comments will be accepted until April 22. Please weigh in with the Corps today!

Register online for Greater Yellowstone Coalition's 24^th Annual Meeting.

This year our Annual Meeting will be in Cody, WY- a break from the past, when it was held in West Yellowstone, Montana. Drier and sunnier, Cody is east of Yellowstone National Park, and provides access to the Absaroka Wilderness, two different forks of the Shoshone River, and Yellowstone Lake. Peter Metcalf, CEO of Black Diamond Equipment, and a Utah entrepeneur and environmental businessman, is our keynote speaker. We have an exciting array of Friday workshops and Saturday fieldtrips arranged. Take a look at our agenda to see the other exciting speakers and events we have planned.

Read it online! GYC's Spring 2007 Newsletter is available now.

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gyc@greateryellowstone.org
Greater Yellowstone Coalition Membership
P.O. Box 1874
Bozeman, MT 59771

(406) 586-1593

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