Kudos to Volunteers on Prickly Pear Creek Steambank Restoration

Great to see volunteers helping to stabilize streambank on Prickly Pear Creek near new FWP Fishing Access Site. Good for clean water and fish.

Soaring

A bald eagle soars amid Glacier Park peaks in this Dan Casey photo on #wildlifewednesday

Five Valleys Land Trust Helps Expand Route of the Olympian Trail

Great news on the Route of the Olympian rails-to-trails effort.

Happy National Ag Day

Montana is celebrating National Ag Day on March 21. Here's a photo essay saluting agriculture from Montana ag photographer Todd Klassy.

Bigfork Has a New Community Trail

New Bigfork trail ties in town, lake and mountains. Local community foundation helps make it happen.

Playful, and Fierce, Otters

Two Montana northern river otters. Otters can be playful, and fierce...they have no natural predators. Randy Smith photo

Bird's Eye View of Montana Lakes

Billings Gazette photo feature offers spectacular aerial views of Montana lakes. Photo here is of Fort Peck Lake

Bitterroot Open Land Project Helps Heritage and Habitat

Bitterroot Valley conservation helps heritage, history and habitat. Travelers for Open Land contributed funds to this excellent project.

Rocky Mountain Front Conservation Under the Big Sky

Thanks to The Montana Land Reliance, landowner Sally Shortridge and project supporters, 836 acres of Rocky Mountain Front ranch ground under the big sky will remain open land.

The Art of Cowboy Conservation

The Nature Conservancy in Montana and the CM Russell Art Museum recently teamed up to explore the interesting connections between Montana private land conservation, art and ranching.

The Ever-Changing Flathead Valley

Flathead private land conservation: "A sense of space that this valley needs to protect."

Montana Land Reliance: 1 Million Montana Acres Conserved

Thoughtful Prairie Star article about the important ties between agriculture, conservation and family farms and ranches.

RMEF Launches The Elk Network

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation launches the Elk Network, a new digital media platform devoted to...elk.

Pronghorn

Silhouetted pronghorn antelope in pre-dawn light on #WildlifeWednesday Marx photo

Montana Outdoors Magazine: The Value of Habitat Montana

Montana Outdoors Magazine March/April 2017 edition contains a feature article about the importance of the Habitat Montana Program.

Senator Daines Talks Ag Land Conservation in the Bitterroot

Senator Steve Daines visited the Bitterroot Valley last week and met with the Bitter Root Land Trust and local ag producers to discuss private land conservation and the upcoming Farm Bill. BRLT executive director Gavin Ricklefs and his daughter Cate welcomed the Senator to Hamilton.

Five Valleys Land Trust and Partners Conserve Blackfoot Property

Special piece of the Blackfoot conserved with special caveat: a fire camp. Nice work Five Valleys Land Trust, Sharon and Randy Teague, and project partners.

TPL Wins Montana Wetlands Stewardship Award

Congratulations to The Trust for Public Land for its just-announced 2017 Montana Wetlands Stewardship Award. TPL led Story Mill Community Park wetland restoration in Bozeman.

Chestnut-Backed Chickadee

The chestnut-backed chickadee lives along Montana's western edge year round uses lots of fur in making its nest. They'll commonly use rabbit, coyote, and deer hair, but use hair from skunks, cats, horses, or cows appears in nests as well. Dan Casey photo