Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks PROJECT BRIEF

We partner with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) on everything from conservation easements to habitat restoration projects. More often than not, they’re also the state’s first responders when grizzlies and people are having trouble staying out of each other’s way.

Last year, we helped FWP equip a new central Montana bear specialist for their vital outreach work with agricultural producers. As more bears follow river corridors out of the mountains and onto the area’s working landscapes, quick and effective incident responses by FWP can prevent food rewards and habituation while encouraging landowners to implement mitigation strategies. In 2022 our collaboration kept bears out of trouble by expanding carcass pickup across 10 ranches in the countryside between the Blackfoot and Little Blackfoot rivers.