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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.

This year, Montana Audubon organized three Citizen Science surveys: a new pilot project surveying for Nightjars; surveys for Western and Eastern Screech-owls; and the continuation of the Long-billed Curlew Initiative.

For the third year in a row, Montana Audubon is proud to sponsor the Western Sustainability Exchange’s Expanding Markets Conference, which will be held September 30- October 2 in Helena, Montana.

Last fall, Montana Audubon’s Director of Conservation Christian Meny gave a presentation for Buzz on the Range, a project testing innovative grazing practices to support both cattle production and pollinator habitat on working Montana ranches.

This article was originally published in the Yellowstone Valley Audubon Society Flyer (August 2025). Reprinted by permission from YVAS and the author.

The Grazing Expo will be held September 4 -7, in Billings, Montana, and is designed to empower land managers with tangible resources while highlighting the west-wide impact of sound grazing lands stewardship.