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The
Madison Valley, Montana
The Madison River
tumbles off the Yellowstone Park plateau into one of the great
river valleys of the American West. Rainbow and brown trout
swim the Madison, one of the finest wild trout streams in
the world. Rich, rolling grasslands and virgin forests are
home to the Rocky Mountain elk, grizzly bear, and the great
gray owl. Lush streamside vegetation harbors bald eagles,
beaver, and river otter. But today, Madison Valley ranchers
are under intense pressure to subdivide this beautiful valley.
Our efforts—and your help—are
vital to keeping this ecosystem intact.
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Montana’s
Big Hole Watershed
From its headwaters
in alpine meadows on the Continental Divide, the Big Hole
River runs 150 miles along the Pioneer Mountains, through
native rangelands and lush river bottoms. Elk, moose, black
bear, and prairie falcon live here. The river itself is renowned
for its wild trout fishery, and something even more special—the
last wild population of fluvial Arctic grayling in the lower
48.
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