Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) is working with state and federal partners to ensure the long-term conservation of vital big game migration corridors on public lands across the West. 

Wildlife research - fueled by modern GPS technologies - is documenting the precise movements of deer, elk, and antelope as they migrate annually between winter and summer ranges. Landscape-level migrations are being documented including a 150-mile mule deer migration from the Red Desert of soutwest Wyoming in winter to summer ranges in the Gros Ventre Moutains near Jackson each year. Similar impressive migrations are being mapped in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada, Paunsaugunt Plateau in Utah, and the Madison Valley in Montana. Without these vast migrations, the abundant wildlife populations that make the West special could not exist. 

With this new knowledge comes a responsibility to ensure that corridors and habitats are protected. To safeguard these, TRCP is working with state fish and wildlife agencies to support their research of important corridors and ensure that conservation is prioritized by western states. TRCP is also helping generate funding for wildlife crossings over highways to prevent vehicle collisions and advocating for Bureau of Land Management policies that protect corridors from incompatible development on 245 million acres of public lands owned by all Americans. 

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Southface

Southface began as an all-volunteer organization promoting solar energy production around a celebration called Sun Day, May 3, 1978. Since 1978, Southface has promoted sustainable development and green building through education, research, advocacy and technical assistance. Through resource efficiency, building science, green building design, and affordability (quality housing that is healthy and efficient) for everyone, including low and underserved communities. It is through this approach that Southface fosters a renewed vision for a growing and changing economy, generating the outcomes that lead to vibrant, healthy communities for all. 

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Quivira Coalition

The Quivira Coalition builds soil, biodiversity, and resilience on western working landscapes, and fosters ecological, economic, and social health through education, innovation, and collaboration. At the foundation of its work is the concept that well-managed rangelands and forests are two of the most effective, efficient, and immediately viable paths to remedy the impacts of climate change.

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Montana Outdoor Heritage Project

The Montana Outdoor Heritage Project (MOHP) is a collaborative, grassroots education campaign founded in 2018 to create a strong, representative, grassroots network of informed and active Montanans who understand the long-term needs to maintain and enhance Montana’s public lands and shared outdoor infrastructure. Recent polling reveals that 82 percent of Montanans consider themselves conservationists and 76 percent believe that there is a need for increased funding for land, wildlife, and outdoor heritage. MOHP has created an assemblage of 40 community ambassadors that target and meet with a diverse cross-section of citizens that represents the diversity of voices and interests in Montana and includes ranchers, motorized vehicle advocates, tribal members, churchgoers, state legislators, youth leaders, small business owners, hunters and anglers. These community conversations are helping frame a more inclusive message in support of conservation in Montana.

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