Heart of the Rockies Initiative

Heart of the Rockies Initiative is a land trust membership organization headquartered in Missoula, Montana. We support 30 land trusts across five U.S. states (Idaho, Montana, Northern Utah, Eastern Washington, Wyoming) and two Canadian provinces (Alberta and British Columbia), in their work to conserve the land, water, and wildlife of this iconic landscape.

The Initiative was founded in 2002 by land trusts in the region to increase their collective capacity to conserve important agricultural and natural lands throughout the Transboundary Rockies. These founding members recognized that by working together they could tell a bigger, more compelling story to build broader recognition of the region’s agricultural and resource values, bring more funding to support landowners and rural communities, and better conserve ecological connectivity.