The one percent for the planet club was founded in started in 2001 by Yvon Chouinard, of Patagonia clothing company, and Craig Mathews of Blue Ribbon Flies. This club was formed to protect, preserve, and enhance wild resources. Members pledge one percent of their gross sales each year to environmental causes. In these times of budgetary shortfalls, we feel that it is up to the businesses using everyone's natural resources to financially support the protection of these resources. Blue Ribbon Flies has pledged two percent of our gross sales each year since 1997, to projects like Three Dollar Bridge on the Madison River and The Yellowstone Park Foundation. We were the first business to donate a percent of our sales, and we hope other businesses will follow our lead. By supporting businesses that give a percent of their sales back to the environment, consumers can help to protect, preserve, and enhance the resources of Yellowstone Country. After all, wouldn't you want to buy your gear from a business that gives back a percent or two of its gross sales back to projects in OUR Park, and on OUR Madison River?

 

 
Protecting Montana's Trout Streams

This could be the best insurance you can buy to protect trout habitat. Don't Let Montana's Fishing Heritage Slip Away Today every major trout stream in the state is threatened by the destructive forces of residential subdivision, de-watering, and poor land use practices. Unless we act now, Montana's fishing heritage may become only a memory.

We're Protecting Crucial Watersheds

The Montana Nature Conservancy has a proven record for protecting critical fish and wildlife habitat - from the grizzly to the grayling. The Montana Nature Conservancy has protected over 276,000 acres of natural habitat, including over 100 miles of streambank along Montana's legendary rivers - the Madison, Yellowstone, Gallatin, Missouri, Blackfoot and Big Hole.

The Way We Work is Simple

We identify lands that are vital for the health of the watershed. We work cooperatively with landowners, anglers, and others to protect these lands through permanent easements or by buying the land outright. Then we manage the land to keep the watershed healthy.

Insurance for the Future

Your best insurance is to support the work of The Montana Nature Conservancy. Through your tax-deductible donation you become a member of the Friends of Montana, a national network of people who love Montana and want to keep it special - for our children and their children.

Yes, I want to help protect Montana's unique trout streams and watersheds. Enclosed is my contribution to become a member of the Friends of Montana.

$100 minimum for Friends of Montana.
Please make checks payable to
The Montana Nature Conservancy
Contributions are tax deductible
32 South Ewing, Helena, Montana 59601 
(406) 443-0303 phone

(406) 443-8311 fax

 

The World's First National Park
Since Yellowstone was created 129 years ago it has served as a universal symbol of wildness, mystery, and natural beauty. As the world's first national park. Yellowstone's treasures become more significant with each generation. Not only does it have three of the world's top trout fishing streams, it also supports the highest concentration of free-roaming wildlife in the lower 48 states. Yellowstone - A Park at Risk - It seems unimaginable that Yellowstone's unique resources might be at risk, but they are.

Mounting pressures, including increased visitor use and shrinking federal budgets, make it more and more difficult to care for Yellowstone's spectacular resources. In the Madison, Gallatin, Firehole and Yellowstone Rivers, native fish, like the westslope cutthroat, have been virtually eliminated by introduced non-native species.

Unfortunately, the Park Service does not have the money to address situations like this in a timely manner. Soon it will be too late and catching a native trout may be just a memory.

The Yellowstone Park Foundation

We are a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, protecting, and enhancing Yellowstone National Park. We receive no government funding but rely solely on the generous support of private citizens, foundations, and corporations to ensure that Yellowstone's great gifts to the world never diminish.

The Foundation's Goals

Among the many projects we have funded is a westslope cutthroat conservation project to restore this "species at risk" to its native habitat within the Park. The Foundation urges you to become a Friend of Yellowstone with your tax-deductible donation. Please help to preserve and protect an international angling treasure.

The Yellowstone Park Foundation
222 East Main Street, Suite 301, Bozeman, MT 59715
(406) 586-6303 phone

(406) 586-6337 fax

yellowstn@ypf.org

 
When you join the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, you lend your voice to the growing list of people working tirelessly to protect the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. As a member, you will receive our quarterly journal, Greater Yellowstone Report, with in- depth articles and reports about issues affecting the Ecosystem. Special alerts keep you up to date on critical fast-breaking news and let you know exactly what actions you can take to influence important decisions at local re 'onal and national levels. 91 Workshops, annual conferences and field trips bring you to the heart of the action and offer opportunities to meet with experts and other conservationists. Become an integral part of one of the most effective conservation groups in the nation. Together, we are making a difference.

Greater Yellowstone Coalition

P.O. Box 1874

Bozeman, MT. 59771

(406) 586-1593

 

Montana Trout Foundation is quality funding of wild trout projects with your support. Directed by experienced anglers that know where limited funds must go to protect the sport we love.

Montana Trout Foundation

P.O. Box 3165

Bozeman MT 59772

 

 

Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) is the only international organization dedicated to leading activities that enhance and support the fly fishing experience for all anglers.

FFF

P.O. Box 1595 Bozeman MT 59771

(406) 585-7592

ffoffice@fedflyfishers.org

 

 

If you fish Montana --Please join Montana Trout Unlimited

Its mission: to conserve, protect, and restore Montana ’s world class fisheries and their watersheds. All financial contributions to Montana TU are used exclusively in Montana to support conservation of the states wild trout.

Montana Trout unlimited

P.O. Box 7186 Missoula MT 59807

(406) 543-0054

montrout@montana.com

 

An organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of this special river.

www.henrysfork.com

 

Contact: Dave Kumelien --  Whirling Disease Foundation

P.O. Box 327

Bozeman MT 59771

www.whirling-disease.org

 

The Trust for Public Land is the only national nonprofit working exclusively to conserve land for people to enjoy and to improve the quality of life in our communities.  TPL’s expertise is helping communities identify and protect the lands that are important to them and arranging innovative conservation transactions to achieve those goals.

With generous support from people like you, The Trust for Public Land has protected more than 170,000 acres of land in Montana for wildlife, sportsmen and the recreating public.  This includes some 220 miles of trout-laden rivers and streams, which are now permanently accessible to the angling public.

CLICK HERE to learn more about TPL and their work with Blue Ribbon Flies.