Crown of the Continent
Institute

Montana
October 5 - 10, 2025

Northwestern Montana is known for its rugged landscape punctuated by the remote, craggy peaks of Glacier National Park. But the region is also home to vast tracts of public land where some of North America’s most iconic creatures roam, including grizzly bears, wolves, bison, elk, wolverines and mountain lions. Within and around all that wilderness is a working landscape where humans navigate a wide range of complex issues central to conservation and resource management conversations across North America.

IJNR plans to bring 15 journalists to Montana in October, and introduce them to a wide range of subject matter experts including Tribal members, ecologists, wildlife and fisheries biologists, climate scientists, ranchers, land managers, and other stakeholders whose life or livelihood is based on the landscape.

Topics will likely include:

• Transboundary mining

• Biodiversity and connectivity

• Bison reintroduction

• Tribal sovereignty

• Collaborative conservation

• Road ecology

• Wildfire

• National park management

Fellows of the 2025 Crown of the Continent Institute:

This Institute made possible by the support of the Wilburforce Foundation, and in partnership with the Indigenous Journalists Association.