Connecting Community and Nature Through Education

Who We Are

Montana Discovery Foundation works to continue the tradition of conservation education on public lands and waters with, by, and for, Montanans.

Much of our programing takes place on lands managed by the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. The HLCNF exists on the ancestral lands of the Blackfeet, Salish-Kootenai, Gros Ventre, and Crow Nations. We value the rights and sovereignty of all Tribal Nations and Indigenous people across Montana, including the Little Shell, Chippewa-Cree of Rocky Boy, Assiniboine, and Northern Cheyenne Tribes and Nations, and all students we serve whose ancestral lands exist within or outside Montana. Our education is presented through the lens of the 7 Essential Understandings of Montana's Indian Education For All curriculum.