A Confluence of

CONSERVATION

and

EDUCATION

Seedling Planting Workshop on the Elk Creek Conservation Area
Cutthroat Trout surveys in the Swan Valley

Our Mission

is to inspire conservation and expand stewardship in the Swan Valley and beyond.

Our Vision

is that through exemplary stewardship, the Swan Watershed and adjacent landscapes remain wild, resilient places, where all people are connected to the natural world.

Beargrass blooming in the Swan Valley
Mission Mountains Youth Crew and the UM Bird Ecology Lab doing bird banding on the Elk Creek Conservation Area

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Need a gift for an outdoorsy little one in your life? We just added the brand new @littleburrbooks Little Shed Hunter to the shop (and a restock of the Little Tracker book🐾). Shopping with us is one way you can support conservation and the wildlife
Meet your @trackercertification Evaluator: Sage Raymond Sage will be the evaluator for the certification portion of our weeklong Wildlife Tracks & Sign Course this January (we’ve still got some spots left, and our scholarship application c
Winter is around the corner, and so is our scholarship deadline for our Weeklong Wildlife Tracks & Sign Course in January! Spend a week in the field with us, earn two credits (optional), and gain your @trackercertification wildlife tracks and si
Late next month will mark the 126th(!)-annual @audubonsociety Christmas Bird Count. You can contribute to this impressive dataset by counting all the birds you see or hear within our Upper Swan count circle (or join a group local to wherever you ar
It’s the last day of our Wild for Wildlife match campaign! We hope you’ve enjoyed all of the trail camera footage we’ve shared over the past month, and we hope you learned a few new things about our wild neighbors along the way.