Since 1999, M+R’s Montana team has acted as the state field representative for the National Environmental Trust, now part of the Pew Charitable Trusts Environment Group.
M+R has helped build strength locally and statewide to influence federal environmental policy, including:
Field organizing, coalition-building and media strategies to promote and defend Montana’s last roadless lands, generating thousands of communications to Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer on the issue.
- Engaging Montana’s faith community to pressure the state's Congressional Delegation to support global warming legislation. Over 100 pastors signed a letter and later met with Senator Max Baucus to ask for his support for mandatory global warming reduction policies.
- Promoting a report on global warming’s inequitable impacts on the Western U.S. by recruiting distinguished politicians and experts to lend their voices. The conference received press from all Montana TV news stations, Montana NPR, and the Missoulian.
- Launching a contest to “rename” Glacier National Park in order to draw attention to the park’s accelerated loss of its namesake due to global warming. Over 500 people submitted entries and USA Today, dailykos.com and many Montana papers featured stories about the campaign.
For more information, please contact C.B. Pearson at cbpearson@mrss.com.
