Historical Fort Missoula

Trustees

The Missoula County Board of Trustees for the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula is responsible for the daily operations of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula, except for those fiscal and personnel, statutory and administrative authorities reserved by Missoula County. Specifically, the Board of Trustees is responsible for:

  1. Making all program and policy decisions affecting the delivery of services, with exception of such fiscal and personnel decisions that are reserved by Missoula County.
  2. Approving the annual budget to be submitted to the Board of County Commissioners.
  3. Approving the hiring and dismissal of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula's Executive Director.
  4. Co-operating with the Friends of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula, a private, 501(c)(3) support organization, in maintaining the physical, professional, aesthetic, and fiscal health of the Historical Museum.

The Board was formed in accordance with Missoula County Resolution No. 87-093, dated September 21, 1987 and Resolution No. 95-001, dated January 10, 1995. The Board consists of three voting members and two non-voting alternates appointed by the Missoula Board of County Commissioners. Members of the Board serve three-year terms with one-third of the membership up for re-appointment every year. All terms begin on January 1 and terms are not limited. Regular meetings of the Board are held monthly, normally the third Monday of each month, at noon, at the Alien Detention Camp Headquarters (Building T-1) on the Fort Missoula campus.

2012 Trustee Meeting Dates

Noon, Building T-1 at Fort Missoula

  • January 9
  • March 19
  • May 21
  • July 16
  • September 17
  • November 19

Most Recent Meeting Infotmation

Agenda: January 2012
Minutes: December 2011

Previous Board Minutes (pdf)

Previous Agendas (pdf)

Missoula History Minutes

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13. Lewis and Clark

On their return from the Pacific, Lewis and Clark came through the Missoula Valley again. Upon reaching the Bitterroot River, the party split into two groups. Clark returned the way they came and Lewis took the Blackfoot route. Meriwether Lewis led nine men through the Missoula Valley and wrote in his journal on July 4, 1806:

The first 5 miles of our route was through a part of the extensive plain in which we were encamped, we then entered the mountains with the East fork of Clark's River through a narrow confined pass on it's North side continuing up that river five miles further to the entrance of the Cokahlahishkit River which falls in on the Northeast side, is 60 yards wide, deep, and rapid. That would be the Blackfoot River where it joins the Clark Fork at Bonner.

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