Water Quality District - Riparian Protection


When you spot these and other native plants along Montana's waterways, you're seeing water protection in action. They stabilize banks, absorb pollutants and filter out chemicals 24 hours a day, seven days a week. To learn more, visit watersmartmt.com. Or contact a local nursery for information on planting native shrubs and trees.
- Black cottonwood
- Red osier dogwood
- Sandbar willow
- Serviceberry
- Snowberry
- Golden currant
- Woods rose
- Water birch
- Mountain alder
- Chokecherry
- Rocky Mountain maple
- Douglas hawthorn
Listen to our radio PSAs!
Willow: Listen to MP3 File
Cottonwood: Listen to MP3 File
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