One Montana

The master hunter program is designed to educate a more ethical and effective hunter that can work with landowners and help them with their wildlife management goals. The master hunter program provides valuable opportunities for hunters to interact with landowners by working alongside them. And it educates hunters about the important role they play in stewarding wildlife habitat and the challenges of land management. In 2023 78 new master hunters graduated, creating a community of 373 master hunters. We also hosted 23 service days on ranches and farms across thestate with 70 master hunters providing over 600 hours of combined volunteer service.

Community outreach

As part of our Montana way initiative,the outside kind program is an alliance of 12 organizations working to support the tenets of building an inclusive outdoors, sharing "leave no trace" principles, and being safe and responsible on our public trails. Outside kind is building an inclusive outdoors by spreading kindness and simple suggestions for being good stewards of our public resources and helping ensure we can all enjoy and conserve our resources for the future. By bringing multiple partners together, we achieve a larger reach than we could do on our own, more efficiently amplify our collective messaging and lower our marketing costs. In 2023 we displayed 344 signs on countless trails in gallatin county and elsewhere, participated in 25 events, and educated 690 kids in outside kind principles. In addition, 44 volunteers provided 162 volunteer hours.