Since 1999, M+R’s Montana office 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:
Providing 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 Montana’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.
- M+R helped organize a news conference to release a report on global warming’s inequitable impacts on the Western U.S. Distinguished politicians and experts lent their voices, and the conference received press from all Montana TV news stations, Montana NPR, and the Missoulian.
- In 2007, M+R helped launch and promote 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 Anna Swanson at aswanson@mrss.com or C.B. Pearson at cbpearson@mrss.com.
