Watershed Education Network

09/29/2026

TONITE! And WEN'scitizen scientists are hightlighted!

Join our Stormwater team for Pattee Creek: Changing Course and The Rewilders—two short films that show how restoring nature can strengthen ecosystems, build climate resilience and support healthier communities.

🌿 Stay after the films for a panel discussion about local conservation, climate action and nature’s power to recover.

📅 Sept. 29 | 5:30 p.m.
📍 The Roxy Theater
🎟️ $5 | All proceeds support The Roxy

Come see how work right here in Missoula connects to a much bigger story.
https://www.theroxytheater.org/show/what-the-creek-carries-rewilders

09/20/2026

Stream Team Sunday is adventurous and fullfilling! Grant Creek confluence has lost its beaver dam.

09/18/2026

Magical days of fieldtrips out collecting data on our creeks and rivers. Check out the bug collection with Montana Trout Unlimited and Milltown State Park exploration with the Mansfield Center, University of Montana, United State of America

09/11/2026

Just another day up the Creek going after bugs! This aquatic insect excursion brought to WEN by Montana Trout Unlimited partners

09/04/2026

Amazing dragonflies

It's older than the dinosaurs.

The dragonfly cutting across your yard belongs to a family that's been hunting the air for 300 million years — and some of its ancient relatives had wingspans close to two feet, the size of a hawk. What's flying past you is a scaled-down survivor of a design that predates trees and nearly everything else still airborne.

And it still works flawlessly. It catches the overwhelming majority of the prey it chases — a strike rate that makes lions look clumsy — steering with four wings it beats independently to hover, reverse, and bank at speed, watching it all through eyes built from tens of thousands of lenses.

Some of them migrate, too, and not the way you'd think. The green darner crosses the continent in a relay no single dragonfly ever finishes — one generation flies part of the way and dies, and the next picks up the route. The journey outlasts any one life.

While it's here, it's clearing mosquitoes over your yard by the dozen.

09/03/2026

Benefit for keeping kids at the river!

Tonight Sept. 3rd
Matador night at Fraternal Order of Eagles #32

AKA: Eagles Lodge on South Ave.

When: 6-8pm

What: yummy burritos sold

Why; proceeds support Watershed Education Neywork's youth programs.

Grab a burrito & head to the Wilma for the Fly Fishing films:)

08/23/2026

On Tuesday, the City made another step towards its Rattlesnake restoration goals, celebrating improvements to a trailhead up the Rattlesnake.

08/21/2026

Join the Watershed Tour Sept. 15th-17th. Missoula segment is featured on Sept. 16th...

Wednesday is all about Missoula’s stormwater and restoration projects! 💧🌿

On Wednesday, Sept. 16, tour Miller Creek, Takima Park, Cattail Corner, the Missoula Public Library, Rattlesnake Creek, and Greenough Park.

The day includes viewing green stormwater infrastructure, monitoring demonstrations, restoration projects, the Library’s Living Roof, riparian health projects, wetland restoration, water sampling demonstrations, and more.

📍 Missoula
🗓️ Wednesday, Sept. 16
⏰ 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
🍻 6 p.m.: Pint Night & Trivia at

Spend the day learning about projects happening throughout Missoula and then stick around for Pint Night and an evening of trivia. Register by Friday!
https://www.mtwatersheds.org/connection/watershed-tour/

08/18/2026

Sharing water matters

Wish we could say it was a summer without drought impacts -- but no such luck. The Blackfoot River dropped below the drought response trigger of 700 cfs on Tuesday. Thursday rains brought a bump in flows, but chances are that won't last long. Therefore the Blackfoot Drought Response Committee activated the Drought Plan this week -- and water users are being asked to implement water conservation measures at this time. Thank you for doing your part!