The Issues

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  Restoring Wildlife Habitats

  Our Wildlife Conflict Resolution Program works to retire livestock grazing allotments that experience chronic conflict with wildlife, especially grizzly bears and wolves. Ranchers receive fair payment for retiring their allotments, and typically use these funds to secure grazing in locations without wildlife conflicts.

• Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

  The CMR Wildlife Refuge is considered by many to be the crown jewel of the refuge system. Located in north-central Montana, and encompassing more than one million acres, the NWF is working closely with the refuge to develop a new Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP) that will significantly improve refuge management.

• Sagebrush-Steppe Landscape

  Sagebrush-steppe is one of the most important wildlife habitats of the interior West, supporting an abundance of plant and wildlife species like sage-grouse, pronghorn, mule deer, jack rabbits and golden eagles. But this habitat is threatened by not only climate change, but also invasive species, urbanization, inappropriate energy development, and wild fire.

• Bitterroot Ecosystem Connectivity Program

  Finding ways for wildlife to move between areas of habitat and to recolonize new areas is increasingly important because of climate change and increasingly challenging because of fragmentation caused by subdivisions and highways. NWF’s efforts to get grizzlies back into the Bitterroot Ecosystem of east central Idaho and western Montana focuses on reducing mortality in linkage zones.

• Sportsmen For Responsible Energy Development

  The Responsible Energy Development coalition is made up of more than 500 businesses, organizations and individuals dedicated to conserving irreplaceable habitats so future generations can hunt and fish on America's public lands. The coalition is led by the National Wildlife Federation, Trout Unlimited and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.

• Sportsmen United for Sensible Mining

  The Sensible Mining Campaign coalition is made up of organizations and individual grassroots partners, working together to preserve the American tradition of hunting and fishing. The coalition was created to bring together organizations, businesses, and agencies to conserve and enhance fish and wildlife through sensible reform of the 1872 Mining Law. The coalition is led by the National Wildlife Federation, Trout Unlimited and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.

• Montana Hunting & Fishing Journal

  Whether you are a hunter or angler (or a hiker, camper, boater, or wildlife watcher), Montana has some of the best opportunities in the world for discovering the wonders of nature. Let us help you plan your next outing!

• Montana's Forest Jobs and Recreation Act

  Proposal for a new land and resource management plan that is a ‘made-in-Montana’ forest stewardship bill. It promotes forestry practices designed to restore forests and protect communities from wildfire, dedicates areas for motorized recreation, and protects pristine backcountry. The Act brings together three separate community-based National Forest projects: the Three Rivers Ranger District (Kootenai NF), the Beaverhead-Deerlodge Partnership (Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF), and the Blackfoot-Clearwater Stewardship Project (Lolo NF).