Awards

In 2026, Montana Audubon awarded 6 Audubon Wildlife Fund Grants.

All proposals must be received via email no later than Friday, January 16, 2026.

The Montana Raptor Conservation Center admitted their 200th bird of the year in September- a milestone they don’t usually reach until closer to the end of the year.

“With the help of MT Audubon grant funding, we are able to make a real difference for sick and injured birds in our care.”

In partnership with the City of Helena and Montana Conservation Corps, Last Chance Audubon organized a spring clean up at the K-Mart wetlands area, a local birding hotspot.

Autumn 2024 marked the 17th full monitoring season at the Jewel Basin Hawk Watch, run by members of the Flathead Audubon Society.

University of Montana master’s student Jake McArtor visited 27 different wildfire-affected forests in western Montana and collected hundreds of samples.

Montana State University graduate student Arcata Leavitt spent the spring and summer of 2025 deploying autonomous recording units (ARUs) to find and monitor Great Gray Owls across southwest Montana.

The 2025 field season brought exciting progress in our effort to better understand the Gillette Checkerspot (Euphydryas gillettii), a rare butterfly of the Rocky Mountains and a Montana species of concern.

In 2025, Montana Audubon awarded 7 Audubon Wildlife Fund Grants.