WRC Collaboration

The WRC’s focus area is located in the uppermost 120 miles of the Clark Fork River and its tributaries in western Montana. The upper Clark Fork River Basin consists of approximately forty-two percent (42%) private lands, of which, eighty-two percent (82%) are agricultural lands.

Promoting practices that preserve large intact landscapes increases the protection of critical habitat for fish, wildlife, and other aquatic species. A large portion of this work is accomplished through successful partnerships with landowners that enhance and benefit both the resource and the landowner. Through the efforts of the WRC, groups that were at one time polarized have

joined together to collaborate and bring about change in the upper Clark Fork watershed. The WRC provides landowners a place at the table for basin conservation and restoration planning.

The WRC is an energetic, on the ground organization with big-picture goals. Through local and regional support along with partner collaboration and cooperation, we are able to successfully achieve our mission as an organization and community.