Yellowstone Valley Citizens Council

Yellowstone Valley Citizens Council (YVCC) is a local citizens group that was organized in 1979.  YVCC is a local affiliate of Northern plains resource council and advocates for a healthy, livable, and sustainable community by educating, mobilizing, and testifying to ensure citizen’ voices are heard in the local and state government decision–making process.  YVCC also formulates grand visions of a healthy and sustainable community and working cooperatively to achieve them.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Since its inception, YVCC has achieved many important victories, including:

• Helped dramatically improve air quality in Yellowstone County through an ongoing campaign to improve the enforcement of air quality laws. 
  
• YVCC increased individual and institutional patronage of locally raised and processed food through our community food campaign. 
  
• YVCC secured support for a full-time neighborhood planner to coordinate smart growth planning in our community. 
  
• Finally, YVCC successfully challenged efforts to site hazardous waste facilities near the Yellowstone River. 
  

Over the past few decades, YVCC has provided local citizens with numerous opportunities to advocate for a healthy, inviting, and sustainable community.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Join us this fall for our annual Cowboy Stew Supper to help us raise funds and spread the word about locally produced foods.

CONTACT

Ed Gulick, Chair
YVCC
220 S. 27th Street, Suite A
Billings, MT 59101