Conservation Calendar

The MT Conservation Calendar is maintained in partnership with the University of Montana Environmental Studies program. Updated daily. REFRESH/RELOAD often. Times are Mountain Time. Links to more info are in bold blue italics. Scan ahead to check for RSVPs, deadlines & rescheduling. All events open to the public (some require registration). NOTE: Click here for other community calendars. 

Email event notices here.… Click here for the Conservation Directory.

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March 2026
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May 2026
June 2026
July 2026
August 2026
September 2026
October 2026
November 2026
December 2026

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March 2026

Native Seed Sale  & Seedling Sale , MT Conservation  Nursery , Missoula. Order online  

Saturday Farmers Markets:  Farmers Market Guide & Local Food Guide .

Now until full — sign up for Wild Montana’s Volunteer Trail Crew projects  or Great Burn Conservation Alliance summer volunteer trips.  or Scotchman Peaks wilderness trips. or Bob Marshall Wilderness summer volunteer trips.

Many dates in March — MT Constitution Road Show — many sites in MT.

Now until April 3 — Mountain Film tours MT. Helena Mar 11; Whitefish Mar 12, Choteau Mar 13, Missoula Mar 22; Big Fork Apr 3. Info here. 

Now to March 13 — Public meetings on proposed repeal of the Roadless Rule — hosted by Wild Montana. 3/12 Bozeman, 3/13 Helena. Speak up now.

March 12 — Deadline to comment on Northwestern Energy’s  20 year plan  (email  IRP@northwestern.com) . NWE info on plan. .. MEIC info on plan..

March 12 (Thur) — Basic Organic Gardening   at Garden City Harvest’s barn (1657 River Rd, Missoula). 6-8pm

March 12-13 — Common Good Missoula’s Leadership Training. Details and sign up HERE.

March 13 (Fri) — Help plant willows along Cameron Creek near Sula  9:30am-1pm. Info/signup here. 

March 13 —  Endangered Species Pottery Project  explained byUM professor Julia Galloway   1 pm at UM’s Clapp building room 131.

March 13– Help clean/package native seeds at Missoula’s Rocky Mountain Gardens, 1-3pm.

March 13 — Comments due on  Draft Comprehensive Flathead River Management Plan.   How to submit comments.  Useful background info in this Flathead Beacon article. 

March 14 (Sat)– 5 Valleys Audubon bird walk RESCHEDULED to MARCH 21 due to weather prediction.

March 14 – Coffee with Smoke – informal horse-packing workshop & stories of wilderness conservation with conservation elder Smoke Elser. 10 am to 3pm. In Smoke’s barn (3800 Rattlesnake Drive, Missoula).  Stay for the time that works for you.

March 14 — Five Valleys Seed Library Seed Swap. 10am to 2pm. Exploration Center at Missoula Fairgrounds. Free seeds, meet local master gardeners.

March 14 — Don’t Toss It — Fixit ! at Home Resource Fixit clinic. 11am-2pm at 1515 Wyoming, Missoula

March 14 – Year-Long online program in Herbal Medicine Foundations starts. Offered by Green Path Herb School of Missoula. Info here.  Part can be taken in-person for those in or near Missoula.

March 15 (Sun)– Deadline to apply for a community garden plot in Missoula. Info here. 

March 15 – Living with Wildlife – FWP Biologists Jamie Jonkel & Torrey Ritter talk about Bonner Hill’s bears, birds, beavers, bulltrout.  1 pm, St Ann Catholic Church in Bonner. Come for the talks; stay for the Better Than Butte Pasty Dinner !

March 17 (Tues) — Make your garden a biodiversity hotspot (virtual). Elliott Conrad, 7pm.  Register for zoom link   hosted by MT Native Plant Society.

March 17 — MT Bumble Bee Atlas — Missoula Butterfly House. Sorry– SOLD OUT. But will be viewable on MCAT’s YouTube channel in a week or two.

March 18 (Wed) — Upper Clark Fork Streamflow Working Group  meets. 10 am to 12:30 pm. Powell Community Center, Deer Lodge & via Zoom

March 18 — Missoula in Motion explains how to commute sustainably at a lunch hosted by Home Resource. noon. Info/RSVP here. 

March 18 — Tree Pruning workshop 10am to noon followed by Tree Pruning at Ft. Missoula 1-3 pm. Info/register here   Also March 25 , 1-3pm. Info here. 

March 18 — Advancing Nature-based Restoration thru Communication webinar, 2-3pm. Info/signup here. 

March 19 (Thur) — Data  Centers panel discussion. MEIC & others share info on what is proposed. 5:30 pm at Fergus County Council on Aging (301 W. Watson, St) Lewiston. Info. 

March 20 — Montana Constitution Day celebration, Montana Heritage  Center, Helena. RSVP.

March 20-22 — Montana Environmental Education Association annual meeting,  Missoula. Keynote speaker is Mariah Gladstone founder of Indigikitchen,

  March 21 (Sat) — TEDx event at UM-Western — Building Resilience in Rural Communities Conference features many speakers sharing ideas on critical thinking, collaboration & resilience. Schedule.

March 21– 5 Valleys Audubon bird walk  at Council Grove State Park west of Missoula . 8am. Info here. 

March 21 — Bird walk at Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge in the Bitterroot Valley. Meet trip leader at Visitor’s Center at 10 am.

March 22 (Sun) — World Water Day–theme: water & gender

March 22 — Bluebird ecology & how to avoid killing them with improperly built houses. 2-3:30 pm, Missoula Public Library, 4th floor.

March 23 (Mon) — Screening of One in 500 –climate crises in Montana. 6:30 pm, Art House Cinema, 109 N. 30th St, Bozeman. Info: 406-671-5824

March 24 (Tues) — Rural West Conference. 8:30am- 6:15 pm. MSU, Bozeman. RSVP to Attend in Person  – OR  Watch the Livestream . addressing rural politics, environmental stewardship, and community and economic futures.

March 24 — Seed Starting 101 , 6-8 pm at Missoula’s Rocky Mountain Gardens (Fairgrounds).

March 25 (Wed) — Addressing Heat/drought to safeguard Montana’s Environment/human health. with Julia Ryder, MT Health Professionals for Healthy Climate. 6:30 pm. Bozeman Public Library & zoom. Info/register here. 

March 27 – Project Community Connect – neighbors helping neighbors. 10am-3pm, Missoula Public Library

March 27-29 — Leadership training offered by Wild Montana, Billings. Info/registration

March 28 (Sat)– Third No Kings March.   Missoula 1-3 pm at the XXXXs. More sites on the map here.

March 28 — Native Plant Symposium. 9:30am-1:30 pm. Billings Library

March 28 — MT Natural History Center field trip to Freezeout Lake to see Snow Geese migration. Register by March 14 to get a seat on the bus. Leave from Missoula at 7am return at 6pm.

March 30 (Mon) — Restoration of Grant Creek –– Lily Haines, Clark Fork Coalition.   5 to 7 pm at UM’s Native American Center rm 105, Missoula. Open to all. Hosted by Watershed Education Network.   RSVP/zoom link here.   For more info, email Stephie

March 30  — MT Science Fair at UM’s Adams Center. Judges needed–info here at judges tab. 

March 30 — Deadline to comment on Milk River & St Mary River watershed plans. 

March 30- April 2 — Building Codes Conference in Missoula. Free.

March 31 (Tues) — Montana Watershed Coordination Council annual meeting (virtual). 10am-noon. will share strategic plan & ideas for State of the Watersheds report.Register here. 

March 31 — Mission Matchup–Volunteer Expo, 5:30-7:30 pm at Missoula Fairgrounds.

March 31 — Comments due on draft Watershed Plan/EIS for Milk & St Mary Rivers watersheds..  Info here.

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April 2026

April 1 (Wed) — Global Change Impacts to terrestrial carbon & nitrogen cycling. Justin Gay, UM Forestry. 4 pm. in UM’s Interdisciplinary Science Building, room 110. and via zoom 

April 1 — Compost/soil health workshop    at Garden City Harvest’s barn (1657 River Rd, Missoula). 6-8pm

April 2 — Gallatin Conservation District’s Land & Water Stewardship. 9am-2pm, Gallatin County Fairgrounds.

April 2 — Gallatin Watershed Council annual meeting. 5:30- 8 pm, Gallatin County Fairgrounds.

April 8 (wed) — Losing keystone species makes restoring endangered grasslands tough. 6:30pm on zoom. Info/register here.  Dr. Andy-Boyce-Pero, Smithsonian Great Plains Science

April 10-12 — Leadership training offered by Wild Montana, Kalispell. Info/registration

April 11 (Sat) — Run for the Trees –-FUNdraiser for Missoula’s Urban Forest. info/register. 

April 13-14 — Montana Beaver Working Group annual meeting. Lewistown & virtual. Agenda: 2026 Action Plan.  Info/RSVP here. More info:  Contact: Shelby Weigand (weigands@nwf.org)

April 14 (Tues) — Democracy Summit at UM. 8:30am – 5 pm. Theme: from isolation to social connection.

April 14 — Community conversation on the Smurfit-Stone mill superfund site. 5-6:30 pm at Old Bull Brewing, 16862 Beckwith, Frenchtown. Hosted by EPA staff.

April 14 — Living Roots: the Promise of Perennial Foods. 6-8pm at Exploration Center, Missoula Fairgrounds. Info/registration. 

April 14 — Wilderness Speaker Series –– What’s happening to Elk in Flathead’s S. fork? . 7-8:15 pm at Flathead Valley Community College, Kalispell. Info here. 

April 14-15 — Native Plant Conservation Conference at University of Montana. Topics: ‘Fire as a tool’ and ‘species of concern’. Attend in-person or via zoom. Info & register here.

April 18 (Sat) —Bitterroot Run-Off Trail Run –– FUNdraiser for Bitterroot Water Partnership. 7am to noon. near Lolo, MT

April 18 — Earth Day Expo Flathead Valley Community College, 9am-3pm. Kalispell.

April 18 — Clark Fork River annual litter cleanup, organized by Clark Fork Coalition. 9-11 am at Missoula’s Caras Park. Info.  Come gather some litter, enjoy brunch, and then enjoy WildWalk parade at 11:30 am.

April 18 — National Water Dance Day — Missoula dance will be at Caras Park at 11:15 am, and at Van Buren Bridge at 2pm.

April 18-23 — International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula (Roxy Theater & UM).  WildWalk & WildFest  kick off the festival on April 18. WildWalk starts at 11:30 am.

April 19 & 28 — Status/threats to Grizzly Recovery –– talk by Chris Servheen. Missoula. April 19.Learn more /RSVP ? … April 28. Learn more /RSVP ?

April 21  (Tues) — Earth Week Sustainability Fair at UM. 11:30 – 2pm. Check back for details.

April 21 — Deadline to Comment and Public Hearing on proposed rulemaking for feasibility allowances for nondegradation  of state waters (as called for under HB 685). 11 am at 2401 Colonial Dr, Helena and via zoom. Info here.

April 21 — MT Natural History Center FUNdraiser Lunch. 12:30-2:30 pm at Home Arts, Missoula Fairgrounds. Info/tickets.  

April 22 (Wed)  — Earth Day — 2026 theme:  Our Power; Our Planet

April 22 — River Cleanup & bird watching on the Clark Fork River at Missoula’s Reserve Street bridge. 9am to 2pm. Check back for details.

April 22 — Earth Day event in Browning.  check back for details.

April 23 (Thurs) — Gallatin Valley Earth Day hosts film showing at 7pm; reception/silent auction at 6pm. Emerson Center for Arts & Culture, Bozeman.

April 20-24 — Climate Week at MSU. Free and open to the public

April 25 (Sat) — Gallatin Valley Earth Day Festival (10am-2pmm) & 5K Fun Run (9am) at Gallatin County Fairgrounds.

April 25 — Missoula  Phlox Fest . 10am-2pm at Rocky Mountain Gardens, 1075 S. Ave. W.  Free & family friendly. Music, food, plant sales, info on the Garden City’s history & future of gardens.

April 25 — Celebrate Trails Day — check back for events.

April 25 — University of Montana Big Service Event here

April 28 (Tues) — Authors of Saving the Big Sky   share the story of this book at 4pm in University of Montana Forestry building 106. All welcome.

April 28 — Citizen Science in our streams.   5 to 7 pm at UM’s Native American Center rm 103, Missoula. Open to all. Hosted by Watershed Education Network.   RSVP/zoom link here.

April 28 — UM’s Climate Change Studies program’s Climate Symposium. 6-8 pm in Honors College. student project presentations.

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May 2026

Saturdays– Outdoor Farmers Markets restart. See  Farmers Market Guide & Local Food Guide .

May 2 (Sat) — DIY Apple Tree Grafting, 10am- noon at Missoula Rocky Mountain Gardens (Fairgrounds).

May 2 — Five Valleys Land Trust Banquet & Auction. 5-9:00 pm at UM’s Adams Center, Missoula.

May 6 (Wed) — Upper Clark Fork Streamflow Working Group  meets. 10 am to 12:30 pm. Powell Community Center, Deer Lodge

May 7-11 — Global Earth Repair Convergence. Online (& in-person at Port Townsend, WA). Heal the Earth.

May 13 (Wed) — End of Semester Thrift Sale at UM. 9am – 2pm. Schreiber Gym.  Students donate items they no longer need; you get a great deal, and less waste to the landfill.

May 14 (Thurs) — Spring Potluck of Native Plant Society–Clark Fork Chapter. 6:30 pm at Pineview Park Pavilion in Missoula. Bring your own utensils & a dish to share. No alcohol.

May 15 (Fri) — Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s annual Peace Party. 5-9pm in Univ. of Montana’s Education Building. Check back for link to info & tickets.

May 16 (Sat) — Resilient Homes Tour — see how Missoulians have made their homes resilient in the face of climate change.  2-4pm tour; 4-5pm happy hour. Info/RSVP

May 29 (Fri) — Walking audit for bike-ped safety on Reserve St, Missoula. 4-5 pm . Info here.

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June 2026

June 12-14 — MT Audubon’s Wings Across the Big Sky Birding Festival. Kalispell. Info here.

June 18  (Thurs) — Flathead Lakers Annual Meeting. 5-7:30 pm, Barn at Finley Point.

June 26-28 — MT Native Plant Society Annual Rendezvous, Homestake Lodge along the Continental Divide just east of Butte. Theme: Botany on the Batholith.

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July 2026

July 15 (Wed) — Upper Clark Fork Streamflow Working Group  meets. 10 am to 12:30 pm. Powell Community Center, Deer Lodge

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August 2026

August 6  (Thurs) — Flathead Lakers’ Summer Soiree (FUNdraiser), Flathead Forever in Big Arm.

Aug 8 (Sat) — Flathead Waters Annual Cleanup.  Info. 

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September 2026

Sept 14-18 — Watershed Tour — Responsible Practices to Protect Water Quality. Offered by MT Watershed Coordination Council . Info/register.   Includes Butte, Hamilton, Missoula, Kalispell, Flathead

Sept 16 (Wed) — Upper Clark Fork Streamflow Working Group  BBQ, meeting, tour. 2pm to 8pm. Check back to confirm place & time.

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October 2026

Oct 13-16 — Wild Trout Symposium XIV — Managing Wild Trout in a Changing Environment. West Yellowstone. American Fisheries Society — Western Division.

October 27–29 — Montana Pesticide Stewardship Partnership Program (PSPP) Annual Meeting. Flathead Lake Biological Station, 32125 Bio Station Ln, Polson. Connect with researchers, agencies, stakeholders; share data, strategies, solutions for pesticide stewardship. Info/questions:  janelle.groff@flbs.umt.edu 

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November 2026

Nov 18 (Wed) — Upper Clark Fork Streamflow Working Group  meets. 10 am to 12:30 pm. Powell Community Center, Deer Lodge

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December 2026

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