Participating ranchers will enroll in World Wildlife Fund’s Ranch Systems and Viability Planning Network (which already has under 420,000 acres enrolled in the Northern Great Plains), which creates a support system for ranchers interested in making ecological improvements and enhancing the financial sustainability of their operations.
A one-stop-shop for programs and practices available through various conservation partners to help establish and manage diverse native perennial grasses, install grazing infrastructure, and develop working grasslands for sustainable livestock grazing
Voluntary incentive-based agreement between MTFWP and private landowners. Landowners commit to specific land management practices to protect wildlife and receive a one-time per-acre fee for a 30–40-year lease.
Protect, conserve, enhance and create wetland habitat to benefit wildlife, especially migratory birds. Cost-share opportunities through partners for projects meeting program goals.
This program seeks to restore and enhance breeding habitat for declining songbirds including Sprague’s Pipit, Chestnut-collared Longspur, Baird’s Sparrow, and Thick-billed Longspur. The program targets producers with plowed lands who want to restore grass forage for grazing operations.
DNRC’s Conservation Districts Bureau offers state-funded grants provided by the legislature with the goal of empowering conservation districts to conserve the natural resources of Montana through locally led conservation. Grant funds can be used for implementing on-the-ground projects, delivering educational programming to youth and adults, assisting landowners with innovative conservation practices, and for district operations.
This program seeks to convert cropland to sagebrush habitat suitable for Greater Sage-Grouse and other wildlife species associated with sagebrush communities.
Grants program that promotes the conservation of neotropical migratory birds. Grants help partners to protect, research, monitor, and manage bird populations and habitats throughout birds’ entire migratory life cycle. The IMPACT Program focuses a portion of NMBCA funding to support proposals contributing to the conservation of select species, including Sprague’s Pipit, Chestnut-collared Longspur, Baird’s Sparrow, … Read more
Competitive, matching grants program that supports public-private partnerships carrying out projects that involve long-term protection, restoration, and/or enhancement of wetlands and associated uplands habitats for the benefit of all wetlands-associated migratory birds. The Small Grants Program application is simpler than the Standard Grants application; grant requests may not exceed $100,000.
Competitive, matching grants program that supports public-private partnerships carrying out projects that involve long-term protection. restoration, and/or enhancement of wetlands and associated uplands habitats for the benefit of all wetlands-associated migratory birds.
Our Mission is to retain, enhance, restore, and protect grassland, sagebrush-steppe, wetland, and riparian ecosystems, with an emphasis on sustaining and increasing populations of migratory and resident birds while supporting working lands and communities that sustain these habitats.
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