The Heart of the Rockies Initiative membership gathered in Missoula at the UM campus on Sept. 27-28 to advance HOTR strategies, and to learn more about Blackfoot Valley conservation during a stop at the Iverson Ranch in Potomac. The HOTR staff and membership advanced a three-pronged strategy of serving its membership through access to science data and information, a capitol campaign for conservation, and strategic communications designed to help each member tell its individual story as part of a collective landscape conservation message. During the visit to the Iverson Ranch, Denny Iverson detailed some of the conservation projects that have made the Blackfoot such a state and national conservation model.
