Flathead Rivers Alliance River Recreation Monitoring/Citizen Scientist Program

Flathead Rivers Alliance (FRA) is ramping up for the 2025 river season and recruiting volunteer team members! Are you passionate about the river system that inspired a national protected Wild and Scenic River system? We’re expanding our River Recreation Monitoring/Citizen Scientist program – join us to make a difference and give back to the river you love!

If you enjoy floating the river and have a desire to be an active stakeholder while doing so, this volunteer opportunity is for you. Stakeholders are trained to conduct river recreation use monitoring using the Survey 123 mobile data collection app. This tool allows trained volunteers to collect river user, wildlife, and invasive species data as they float the river. Data collected will enhance data sets that are collected by agency partner river patrols. This program is ideal for volunteers who have their own river running equipment that can accommodate at least two people. If you don’t have your own we will try our best to connect you with someone that can row or paddle you as you collect data.

This event will be one of five scheduled River Recreation Monitoring on-site trainings throughout the month of May. Volunteering citizen scientists will be required to attend only one of these on-site sessions. These trainings will be shore-based; you will not need your float gear to attend. Please see our Events Page for other options of dates and times, and sign up via the Google Form - https://forms.gle/D7CqjAatfn778NUH8

Questions about the River Recreation Citizen Scientist training process, the program itself, or other volunteer opportunities with Flathead Rivers Alliance? Contact our Volunteer Coordinator Geoffrey Gill at program@flatheadrivers.org