Tag: education

  • Summer 2026 Internship Opportunity

    Summer 2026 Internship Opportunity

    The Blackfoot Challenge aims to provide meaningful educational and professional internship experiences for undergraduate college students interested in collaborative conservation. Interns will gain experience in nonprofit operations, on-the-ground natural resource […]

  • Partnerships at Work:  Celebrating 2025 Outcomes

    Partnerships at Work: Celebrating 2025 Outcomes

    In 2025, the Blackfoot Challenge responded to expanding community priorities with new programs – Science and Recreation Stewardship – led by new staff. A year of extreme drought tested the […]

  • Snow Water Equivalent and Our Future

    Snow Water Equivalent and Our Future

    Potomac School students learn how to measure snow water equivalent. by Alyssa Daniels, Blackfoot Challenge Education Program Coordinator As the recent warm weather causes the snow to melt in the […]

  • Celebrating 2023 Accomplishments

    Celebrating 2023 Accomplishments

    By Blackfoot Challenge staff Last year marked the Blackfoot Challenge’s 30th anniversary as an organized, community-driven conservation organization. All of you who support and take part in our work are […]

  • Ranching in the spotlight at Youth Field Day

    Ranching in the spotlight at Youth Field Day

    Blackfoot Valley schools enjoyed learning about sustainable ranching and land stewardship during the Challenge’s 2023 Youth Field Day.

  • Celebrating 2022 Outcomes

    Celebrating 2022 Outcomes

    By Blackfoot Challenge staff Hard to believe it’s already two months into 2023.  We don’t want to let too much of this year roll by without recognizing all of our […]

  • Seeley Swan High School Discovery Days

    Seeley Swan High School Discovery Days

    Story and photo by Jean Pocha, Pathfinder staff.  OVANDO – With the sound of wolves yipping and woodpeckers hammering away, the SSHS Discovery Days began in Mollett Park on the […]

  • Bears visiting the classroom

    Bears visiting the classroom

    Story and photo by Jean Pocha, Pathfinder staff.  OVANDO – “There’s three kinds of bears in Montana, black, brown and very, very brown,” chimed a young student at the Ovando […]

  • From weeds and wetlands to fences and flickers: Blackfoot Watershed Stewardship Guide now available!

    From weeds and wetlands to fences and flickers: Blackfoot Watershed Stewardship Guide now available!

    The Blackfoot Challenge is excited to announce the completion of the Blackfoot Watershed Stewardship Guide, a 36-page handbook full of information and resources on land and water stewardship for Blackfoot […]

  • Bears and Ghost Towns: Coming together to deliver place-based education

    Bears and Ghost Towns: Coming together to deliver place-based education

    Earlier this fall, the Blackfoot Challenge worked with a host of partners to bring Blackfoot elementary students outdoors to learn about the world around them. On a sunny fall day […]