Donating to FLBS
How Can I Contribute?
Contributions to the Flathead Lake Biological Station are gladly accepted in any amount. We encourage you to choose a cause for your contributions to support. Many projects around Flathead Lake exist that could greatly use your help.
We are a not-for-profit organization, and within IRS regulations, donations are tax-deductible.
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The Flathead Lake Biological Station is one of the leading biological field stations in the world, a state-of-the-art environmental observatory of natural and social processes in a virtually pristine setting. But, potential for growth is substantially constrained by funding. We must provide the human capital, facilities and advanced technologies required to sustain and evolve the Station's mission. We seek from this capital campaign the tactical, financial support needed for FLBS to respond to the complex environmental threats and social interactions facing Flathead Lake, the Crown of the Continent, and beyond.
The FLBS Capital Campaign is currently focused on three priority issues:
Endow a permanent, distinguished core faculty that will stay on the cutting edge of field ecology now through the 21st century and beyond, including:
- Jessie M. Bierman Distinguished Professorship $3.5M ($1M already in hand)
- Limnology Distinguished Professorship $2.5M ($1M already in hand)
- Aquatic Vertebrate Ecology Distinguished Professorship $2.5M
- Plant Ecology Distinguished Professorship $2.5M
- Ecological Economics/Sociology Distinguished Professorship $2.5M
Provide new facilities needed to support a world-class faculty, their students and postdoctoral scholars, including:
- System wide heating/cooling retrofit using green technology $1.0M
- Retrofit of the Yellow Bay Wastewater System $1.0M
- Crown of Continent Ecosystem Interpretive Center and Nature $3.7M
Endow a research and monitoring fund that will provide continuity for the long-term data bases on Flathead Lake and provide scholarship funding for graduate students working on lake-related problems, including:
- Lake Research and Monitoring $2.0M ($205K already in hand)
- Scholarships and Fellowships $1.0M ($677K already in hand)
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