How To Work with Legislature in 2021
There is a lot going on in this legislative session already! Keep updated with by visiting our Legislative Updates page under Resources. Below is a message from our advisory board member, Bob Walker about how to get involved. How you can work with Legislature Recently several have requested information about working with our legislature. Following […]
1/17/2021 – Parks & Recreation Legislature Report
2021 Legislature Report – Parks & Recreation TO: Parks and Recreation Friends GroupsFROM: Bob Walker, Montana Trails Coalition and Montana Trails, Recreation & Parks AssociationDATE: January 17, 2021 Our 67th Session of the Montana Legislature convened January 4. We anticipate several bills affecting recreation and parks programs. We will keep you informed of those bills […]
1/2/2021 – Bill To Improve Summer Motorized Recreation Trail Grant Funds and Snowmobile Trail Pass
Senator Terry Gauthier has introduced SB 38 to the 2021 session of the Montana legislature that would make several improvements to the summer motorized trail grant funds and snowmobile trail pass. Development of this bill had input from Fish, Wildlife & Parks and other recreationists. For details, go to http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/law0203w$.startup?P_SESS=20211 and type in SB 38.There are also […]
Montana Trail Coalition (MTC) Report to MTRPA
I hope you are all receiving emails from the Coalition about legislation and MTC activities! I want to thank MTRPA for allowing me to represent MTRPA on the Coalition Board. Legislation Authority is needed for SB 24, the new Montana Trails Stewardship Grant Program. FWP will request authority as part of their appropriations request and […]
2021 MTRPA Annual Conference
Save the dates for our 2021 MTRPA Annual Conference October 3rd, 4th, & 5th in Great Falls, MT! We are very optimistic that we will be able to have an in person conference at that time and we can’t wait to gather together again. However, we will also plan to offer a way to join virtually […]
Mid-Year Meeting 10 a.m. Tuesday 10/6
Remote Mid-Year Member Meeting Access Join us on-line for our Mid-Year Member Meeting Tuesday 10/6 at 10 a.m. Our Membership Chair, Chris Waite, will be providing on-line meeting access via Zoom. (You don’t need to download the Zoom Meeting App, you can select the option to join using your browser only.) The on-line meeting invitation […]
Montana State Parks sees steady visitation for the first six months of 2020
Recreation News from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Wednesday, September 16, 2020 Montana State Parks recorded 1.4 million visitors from January through June of this year. Compared with same time period last year, visitation increased by 25.4 percent. While visitation increased at nearly 80 percent of state parks across Montana, there were several parks that […]
Great American Outdoors Act & INVEST in America Act
Our Trail Representative, Bob Walker, took it upon himself write two letters to Congressman Gianforte requesting his support of the Great American Outdoors Act and the Invest In America Act on behalf of our Montana Trails Recreation and Park Association. Great American Outdoors Act “The Montana Trails, Recreation and Parks Association requests your support of […]
COVID-19 Resources
Parks and Recreations During COVID-19 Outbreak The MTRPA is sending out a big THANK YOU to our state, federal, and local Montana parks and recreation departments and agencies for quickly adapting and acting to keep our public healthy and mentally sane during the COVID-19 outbreak! While we are still dealing with this outbreak, departments across the […]
CONFERENCE CANCELED
MTRPA Conference Cancelled The 2020 MTRPA Conference April 19th – 22nd in Butte, Montana is cancelled. Due to the global outbreak of COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus, Governor Bullock and the Butte-Silver Bow Health Department instituted measures limiting social gatherings to combat the spread of the virus. At this time, the annual MTRPA Conference has been cancelled. Refunds will be issued to […]