YOU’RE INVITED! Join the Gallatin Forest Partnership at our Wild Backyard Bash events to hear about our proposed legislation that will permanently protect 250,000 acres across the Madison and Gallatin ranges! Our backyard mountains, the Madison and Gallatin ranges, provide clean drinking water, wildlife habitat, and incredible recreation access. They also border some of the...
Photo Louise Johns Happy Spring! While seasonal confusion is in full swing, we’re pretty sure it’s spring here in southwest Montana. The mountains may be snowy, but bears are awake and wandering, sandhill crane calls can be heard echoing across the valleys, and the first wildflowers are in bloom.Just like the lands and wildlife, the...
Each month, we’re highlighting the people and organizations who make the Gallatin Forest Partnership tick. This month, the spotlight’s on GFP member Chris McCarthy. Hey Chris, can you tell us a little about yourself? My wife and I are recent empty nesters, with adult children living in Bozeman and Chicago. Both of us grew up...
Each month, we’re highlighting the people and organizations who make the Gallatin Forest Partnership tick. This month, the spotlight’s on GFP member Robin Barker. Hey Robin, tell us a little about yourself! I was raised on the Big Island of Hawaii in a little town called Kamuela, where my parents both taught at a local...
Each month, we’re highlighting the people and organizations who make the Gallatin Forest Partnership tick. This month, the spotlight’s on GFP member Hilary Eisen. Hey Hilary, can you tell us a little about yourself? My mom says the reason I love winter so much is because I was born during one of the coldest, snowiest...
In March, volunteers from GFP partner Wild Montana led a late-winter snowshoe adventure up the Porcupine Creek drainage southeast of Big Sky. Porcupine Creek leads into the heart of the Hyalite-Porcupine Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study, which is important to wildlife and human recreators alike. Close to Yellowstone, the Porcupine-Buffalo Horn are provides important habitat for...
London Bernier – The Greater Yellowstone Coalition It’s finally April, which means a few things here in Gallatin Valley. First, it means mud season is nearly upon us (though with this onslaught of new spring snow, we might be waiting longer than usual to see bare ground!). Springtime also means we are starting to see...
Photo of Cowboy Heaven by Christian Sawicki/Wild Montana This piece was adapted from an article originally written by Wild Montana Deputy Director John Todd. The last time Wilderness was designated in Montana was in 2014. That was when Congress passed the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act. It happened because a group of Montanans, united under...
Note: This piece was co-written by advocates from Wild Montana, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, and The Wilderness Society. Stretching between the iconic, wild splendor of Yellowstone and the bustling community of Bozeman, Montana, lies the Gallatin Range. These pristine mountains are studded with diverse habitats and wildlife, and saddled with environmental change. Despite the full...
Note: This piece was written by Alex Blackmer of Wild Montana and published by the Bozeman Daily Chronicle as a guest column on May 20, 2022. — Folks are rightly passionate about protecting the incredible Madison and Gallatin ranges, and of course there are disagreements about how best to do it. I just wish we’d...
