Conservation Blog

Since our inception, RMGA has been carried on the backs of our membership and volunteers. Corporate partners like Stone Glacier and Crispi volunteered to lift us up from time to time, but sponsors were not actively recruited in the early years of RMGA.

In summer of 2020, we realized that corporate sponsors were needed help us to take our conservation efforts to new heights. We began formal efforts toward developing a sponsorship program. Today, RMGA members and volunteers are still the backbone of our backcountry projects, but recruiting corporate partners will allow us to do more.

With the USA Presidential elections in the limelight it’s a great time to start thinking about the upcoming RMGA Board of Director elections. There will be some current terms coming up and some additional openings. Here is the RMGA election schedule:Present - Nov.15 Submissions including your relevant resume for BOD consideration sent to lee@goatalliance.orgNov.15 - Nov.30BOD submission evaluation of eligibility Dec.1 - Dec.15Membership email to present BOD voter options and to permit voting of BOD positions.  

   My name is Jared Frasier and I am the Executive Director of 2% for Conservation. Originally from Northern Wisconsin, I benefited greatly from a diverse outdoor heritage and conservation ethic passed on by family and friends. Moving to Montana during the Great Recession, my career path pivoted from a practicing outdoor educator to learning code and web design in order to provide for my young family. Over the course of several years, I volunteered with dozens of wildlife conservation groups in the region, ultimately leading to becoming 2%’s first paid employee in late 2017. Based out of Montana’s Gallatin Valley, I...

(Photoed above is Julie and chief pilot for MFWP, Joe Rahn, who is the key man who’s helped Julie get some all-time record high goat counts in some districts in the last couple years.  He’s amazing at flying goats, and he loves goats too.  He has a saying from his time in Alaska: “Sheep go where men don’t go. Goats go where sheep don’t go.”) RMGA Member Spotlight - Julie Cunningham My name is Julie Cunningham, and I am the Bozeman area wildlife biologist for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.  My job is diverse, but focuses on management of ungulates, hoofed...

Montana HD-361 RMGA Volunteer Project Recap By :: Pete Muennich It was rewarding to return to where it all began. This past July 17-19, RMGA once again took to the hills on the Montana Idaho boarder in HD-361. This is the same location of RMGA's inaugural survey in 2013 where a small band of volunteers documented a healthy herd of goats not recognized by either of the neighboring states. Flash forward and Montana got it's newest goat district, HD-361.  This year, teams of volunteers rallied at the HQ of project sponsor, Stone Glacier. We visited with Regional Biologist, Julie Cunningham,...