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Montana Fish & Wildlife Conservation Trust

© 2008 Brent LonnerMontana’s Senator Max Baucus authored legislation in 1999 that allowed 265 cabin owners to purchase their plots at Canyon Ferry Reservoir from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. 90 percent of the proceeds from the sales of the cabin sites were to be deposited in a permanent perpetual public trust in Montana to be known as the “Montana Fish and Wildlife Conservation Trust.”

The purpose of the trust is to provide a permanent source of funding to acquire publicly accessible land and interest in land, including easements and conservation easements, in the state from willing sellers at fair market value to:

  1. Restore and conserve fisheries habitat, including riparian habitat;
  2. Restore and conserve wildlife habitat;
  3. Enhance public hunting, fishing, and recreational opportunities; and
  4. Improve public access to public lands.

In 2002 Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton appointed the Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks Foundation to be the Trust Manager of the Montana Fish and Wildlife Conservation Trust. Our responsibilities include investing the corpus of the trust and disbursing funds for projects requested by the Joint State-Federal Board, providing the projects meet the purpose of the trust.

For more information about the Montana Fish and Wildlife Conservation Trust, please visit their website:  www.mtconservationtrust.org

Montana Fish  & Wildlife Conservation Trust
P.O. Box  1993
Helena, MT 
59624
Phone:  406-458-0389
Email: fwctrust@mtwf.org

 

*Donate to the Montana Fish & Wildlife Conservation Trust
to help restore & conserve wildife and habitat!
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Foundation
P.O. Box 200701 • Helena, MT 59620-0701
406.444.6759
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