YBRA Field Camp

2025 YBRA Uplift Award

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The YBRA is pleased to recognize Joan Brownell and Denece Lord as the 2025 YBRA Uplift Award for Outstanding Support recipients. 

Brownell and Lord have both individually, and in partnership, contributed to aspects of the preservation and recognition of the YBRA in the historic archives of Montana history.

2024 Dutcher Award

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INTRODUCING the 2024 YBRA Dutcher Award recipient, Prof. John Weber! The Dutcher Award, established in 2002 for exceptional service to the organization, is the highest award bestowed on a YBRA member. Weber, a Professor of Geology at Grand Valley State University (Allendale, Michigan) has served on the YBRA Board for over two decades, working as … Read more

CCHR Grant for the Fanshawe!

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The Fanshawe Lodge was one of several projects selected for 2025 funding under the Carbon County Historic Rehabilitation Grant Program (CCHR)! This initiative, supported by a Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant from the National Park Service, Department of Interior, provides funds to help revitalize and restore historic buildings in Carbon County. Work on the Fanshawe Lodge will involve stabilizing the building and chimneys, repairs to the exterior and interior log work and finishes, repairs to window frames, and replacing the lodge’s 88-year-old water supply line. The grant totaling approximately $130,000 is largely federal money.

Restoration project details 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/CCHRGrantStoryMap