Montana Range Days

Published: 2019
By Jessica Murray

Beaverhead County hosted the 2019 Montana Range Days. This event is comprised of many workshops, exhibits, contests, and tours for future generations of farmers and ranchers to learn more about the 68 million acres of rangeland across Montana. Roughly 300 people participated through attending illustrated talks, taking part in a workshop, competing in a contest, creating a weed collection, or helping put on the event. This large-scale educational event was a collaboration of the Montana Range Days committee, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, Montana State University Extension, Beaverhead Conservation District, and local volunteers. In addition to the usual Montana Range Days events, Beaverhead County offered two tours of local rangeland and management strategies. Participants traveled to the Helle Ranch to discuss sagebrush burning and the sheep grazing program with a lunch provided by the Montana Wool Growers. The second tour took place at various ranches around Dillon and was focused on Juniper and Douglas fir encroachment into sagebrush and grasslands.