Rally with us on Wednesday, Feb. 19 from 12-1 pm at the Capitol Rotunda in Helena.
Montanans are united by our love for public lands.
But corporations and special interests are taking advantage of a changing Montana to cut off public access and make it easier to sell and transfer public land.
Montanans are uniting to fight back. Defending our freedom to hunt, fish, hike, and camp is more urgent than ever. We need to speak up to protect it.
Montanans from across the state are gathering at the 2025 Rally for Public Lands to call on every elected official – from Helena to Washington, D.C. – to protect our access and keep our public lands in public hands.
For more information and to RSVP: https://rallyforpubliclands.com/
Meet the Speakers
Hilary Hutcheson is a professional angler, guide, award-winning filmmaker and journalist, and longtime advocate for public lands and waters. She owns Lary’s Fly and Supply in her hometown of Columbia Falls and volunteers with multiple local and national conservation and outdoor industry organizations. When she’s not working or volunteering, her greatest joy is being on the river with her husband and three children.
Ryan “Cal” Callaghan is MeatEater’s director of conservation and host of the popular podcast “Cal’s Week in Review.” Cal has been a passionate member of the outdoor community throughout his life, having grown up hunting and fishing, guiding, and playing in the West.
Dr. Shane Doyle, Apsáalooke, is a Montana historian, archaeological consultant, and public lands advocate who hails from Crow Agency. Dr. Doyle’s scholarship on Montana’s ancient Intertribal spaces and culture sheds light on the region’s true legacy – a place of strong spiritual medicine where the waters and the winds, as well as the mountains and the prairies, were shared and stewarded for the benefit of all. Doyle currently serves as the executive director of the Native non-profit Yellowstone Peoples and on the board of numerous non-profit organizations.
Russ Ehnes is a Great Falls native and longtime advocate for Montana’s public trails at the state and federal level. Currently, he’s board chairman of the Montana Trails Coalition and the American Motorcyclist Association and president of the Montana Trail Vehicle Riders Association and the Great Falls Trailbike Riders Association. Russ also served as executive director of the National Off-Highway Vehicle Conservation Council for nearly 20 years and has managed Willo Ranch near Cascade since 2017.
WHEN
February 19, 2025 at 12:00pm - 1pm