How We Work

We connect

We connect people to each other and to our public lands through meaningful outdoor and volunteer experiences, including our Wilderness Walks and Volunteer Trail Crew. We introduce people to hundreds of trails and places throughout the state on our online trail guide, Hike Wild Montana. And we gather members and supporters of Wild Montana at public and online events in celebration of our shared love of wild places around the state.

These connections result in more and more people becoming part of an ever-growing community of grassroots advocates willing to stand up for Montana’s public lands and join a broader movement dedicated to keeping Montana wild.

A group of volunteers pose out on the trail holding their trail crew gear
2020 Volunteer Trail Crew (photo by Sonny Mazzullo)

We unite

We reach out to people and communities across the state and country who hold different views and have had different lived experiences than our own. We embrace these differences that make communities unique. We believe knowing these differences deepens our shared understanding of each other and peoples’ connections to public lands.

We bring people together to work towards landscape-wide proposals that protect wildlands and support local communities that depend on healthy public lands and waters. We stand with tribes in advancing their conservation goals. We also help amplify Indigenous and other voices that have historically been marginalized.

We lead coalitions at the Montana Legislature that drive policy towards keeping public lands in public hands, maintaining and opening access to public lands and waters, helping local communities benefit from new outdoor recreational opportunities, and ensuring funding for conservation.

We mobilize

We mobilize our community to show up – at rallies, marches, meetings, and hearings, as well as at city and county offices, the Montana capitol, and the U.S. Capitol. We mobilize people to sign petitions, send emails, and make phone calls. We elevate our community’s voices, broadcasting them across the state and country from our many communication platforms.

Together, we take a stand for public lands and waters, compelling elected and administrative officials to make decisions that keep Montana wild. And when they make decisions that run counter to our values, we mobilize our community to hold those people accountable, publicly and directly.

In short, we make our community, united under Wild Montana, a force impossible to ignore.

2019 Rally for Public Lands at the Montana State Capitol (photo by Eliza Wiley)

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