American Wildlands is a regional organization working to restore and maintain connections between key habitats for healthy populations of native fish and wildlife in western Montana and central and northern Idaho. For almost 30 years, American Wildlands has used science, respectful advocacy, and community engagement to pursue the vision of a region with interconnected habitats that support healthy populations of bears, wolves, elk, trout, and other magnificent Rocky Mountain wildlife.

Grant History:

2010 - $30,000 To build increased conservation capacity and local support for habitat connectivity and coexisting with wildlife across the High Divide and Crown of the Continent ecosystems. Place-based Conservation

2009 - $30,000 To build increased conservation capacity, habitat connectivity and local support for coexisting with wildlife across the High Divide. Place-based Conservation

2009 - $3,000 To send the co-executive directors to Rockwood Leadership Training, The Art of Leadership. Opportunity Fund

2008 - $3,000 To fund a workshop addressing wildlife corridors and ecological connectivity in the Northern Rockies. Opportunity Fund

2008 - $40,000 To implement a linkage assessment for wildlife connectivity in the High Divide region of central Idaho and western Montana. Place-based Conservation

2005 - $25,000 To protect habitat integrity and connectivity in the U.S. Northern Rockies by promoting broad-based understanding and support of bioregional conservation models. Endangered Ecosystems

2002 - $20,000 To scientifically identify and map key habitat corridors in the Northern Rockies, and share information on these corridors with the public, private lands conservation organizations, land management agencies and decisionmakers in order to protect wildlife habitat linkages throughout the Rocky Mountain states of Montana, Idaho and northwest Wyoming. Endangered Ecosystems

2001 - $20,000 To scientifically identify and map key habitat corridors in the Northern Rockies, and share information on these corridors with the public, private lands conservation organizations, land management agencies and decisionmakers. Endangered Ecosystems

2000 - $21,210 To scientifically identify and map key habitat corridors in the Northern Rockies, and share information on these corridors with the public, decisionmakers and activists in the region. Endangered Ecosystems