Hotel Information
To reserve a room in our block, please call the Billings Hotel and Convention Center at 406-248-7151.
The room block ends Monday, Oct 29th. Prices for the room block are $93.00/night + tax. Please only reserve as the number of rooms that you actually need so that there will be enough rooms for everyone.
Draft Agenda
| Monday, November 12 | |||
| Start | End | Room | |
| 2:00 | Standing Committee Organization Meeting | Business | |
| Tuesday, November 13 | |||
| Start | End | Room | |
| 8:30 | 10:00 | MACD Board Meeting | Parlor 101 |
| 8:30 | 12:30 | DNRC RCAC Committee | Madison |
| 10:00 | 12:00 | SWCDM Board Meeting | Parlor 101 |
| 11:30 | 12:30 | Milk River Watershed Alliance Meeting | Lower Missouri |
| 11:30 | 12:30 | MSCA Board Meeting | Jefferson |
| 1:00 | 4:00 | MACD EO Meeting | Ballroom |
| 2:30 | 4:30 | MRCDC Board Meeting | Gallatin |
| 4:30 | 5:30 | MACDEO Scholarship Awardees & MACD Staff Meeting | Conv. Center Lobby |
| 4:30 | Registration Open & Vendor Setup | Conv. Center Lobby | |
| 4:30 | 5:30 | Conservation Districts & AIS Stations Presentation | Madison |
| 6:00 | 8:30 | Hors D’Oeuvres & Social | Large Room |
| Wednesday November 14 | |||
| Start | End | Room | |
| 8:00 | 1:00 | Registration Table Open | Conv. Center Lobby |
| 7:00 | 8:30 | Breakfast, with presentations on Northern Great Plains Joint Venture, RREC Internships, and Living on the Bank | Conv. Center Large Room |
| 8:30 | 9:30 | Opening Ceremony and Welcome & Partner Updates (Legislators; MACD; DNRC; NACD; NRCS) | Conv. Center Large Room |
| 9:45 | 10:15 | Carter Conservation District Video: The Roots that Bind Us: Telling the Story of Carter County | Conv. Center Large Room |
| 10:15 | 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30 | 11:30 | Committee Meetings | |
| District Operations | Madison | ||
| Water | Gallatin | ||
| Soil and Land Use | Jefferson | ||
| Education | Little Missouri | ||
| 10:30 | 11:30 | One-on-One Ask An Expert Sessions | Parlors |
| Legal-Aid Don McIntyre | |||
| CD & AIS Stations Follow up | |||
| Drones In Agriculture | |||
| 11:30 | 12:30 | Lunch - Presenter Ken Frazer & Mike Ruggles with FWP: Huntley diversion Structure & Fish by-pass | Conv. Center Large Room |
| 1:00 | 5:00 | Tours: | |
| Option 1: North 40 Ag / Miller Coors Plant | Huntley | ||
| Option 2: Western Heritage Center / Uber Brewery | Downtown Billings | ||
| 5:00 | 9:00 | MACDEO Event: Night in the Old West | Conv. Center Large Room |
| Thursday November 15 | |||
| Start | End | Room | |
| 7:30 | 9:00 | Education Breakfast: Drones In Agriculture | Conv. Center Large Room |
| 10:30 | Noon | MACD Business Meeting | Yellowstone & Bighorn |
| 12:00 | 1:00 | Lunch | Large Room |
| 1:15 | 2:15 | BREAKOUT SESSIONS ROUND 1 | |
| Rural Communities and a Changing Western Economy | Yellowstone & Bighorn | ||
| Seeding Cropland back to Grass | Madison | ||
| CD Law | Ballroom | ||
| 2:15 | 2:30 | Break | |
| 2:30 | 3:30 | BREAKOUT SESSIONS ROUND 2 | |
| Legislative Session 101 | Yellowstone & Bighorn | ||
| Soil Testing | Madison | ||
| Mill Levy 101 | Ballroom | ||
| 3:30 | 3:45 | Break | |
| 3:45 | 4:45 | BREAKOUT SESSIONS ROUND 3 | |
| Professional Development | Yellowstone & Bighorn | ||
| Montana’s Changing Climate | Madison | ||
| Water Reservations | Ballroom | ||
| 5:00 | 6:00 | Social Hour | |
| 6:00 | 10:00 | Banquet MC: Dan McGowan & Key Note Speaker Taylor Brown; Awards; Live Auction | Conv. Center Large Room |
| Live Music by River North from Garfield County following banquet | Hotel Lounge | ||
| Friday November 16 | |||
| 8:00 | 9:30 | MACD & SWCDM Board Meeting | Parlor 101 |
| 10:00 | 12:00 | YRCDC Meeting | Parlor 102 |