Membership & Education Info

A monetary donation of any size allows you the option to be put on the mailing list for our quarterly newsletter "Swan View's News" and occasional action alerts.

You can use the Donate Now button to make a VeriSign Secure donation to Swan View Coalition via our credit card service provider Groundspring.org.

Or, you can send a check or money order to us at:

Swan View Coalition
3165 Foothill Road
Kalispell, MT 59901

Swan View provides educational materials and information to the public in a number of ways, including:

• Developing and maintaining the Krause Basin Interpretive Trail in a grove of old-growth western hemlock on the Flathead National Forest. (including a hot link to our new Krause Basin Interpretive Trail page).
• Attending and making presentations at public meetings and workshops.
• Sponsoring public meetings and workshops.
• Issuing press releases and securing press coverage on salient issues.
• Purchasing ad space on radio, television, billboards and in the newspapers.
• Writing and distributing informational booklets and citizen guides.
• Writing and distributing information via email, the world-wide web, occasional mailings and our quarterly newsletter Swan View's News. For a sample article from our newsletter, see our 1994 article "Road Obliteration: Benefits to the Watershed and Its Inhabitants."

"Case Closed:
Public Motorized Trespass and Administrative Activity on Closed Roads in the Upper Swan, Lower Swan, and Noisy Face Geographic Units." (124K pdf report, 108K pdf chart)

"Watersheds at Risk:
Roads Threaten Bull Trout on the Bitterroot, Flathead and Lolo National Forests".(50K pdf). "Watersheds at Risk Summary Table." (16K pdf table)

"Off the Charts:
Roads Outnumber Streams in Developed Flathead Watersheds." (39K pdf).
"Excel Workbook companion to Off the Charts report."
(44K Excel Workbook).

Snowmobiling's
Endless Winter:
Facilitating Physical Access also Extends the Snowmobiing Season, Resulting in Harm to Wildlife Security, Vegetation, Soils and Water. (612K pdf)

Swan View's News,
Spring/Summer 2002: "Reining in Snowmobiles and ORVS" (830K pdf)

"Road Decommissioning:
Why Culverts are removed and How" (940k pdf)

"Jessup Mill Pond History"
(540k pdf)

Special Report:
Hate, Wise Use and the Militia (300k pdf)

Counting Culverts (pdf)

Text, Lies & Photos (pdf)

Gate-Crashing (pdf)