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Gallatin Wildlife Association

“Preserve and enhance wildlife habitat and habitat connectivity in the greater Gallatin area.”

50 years on the ground, 13 comments to the agencies.

Home groundBozeman, MT
Founded1976
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The work

What they do

Wildlife advocacy focused on the Gallatin Range and adjacent national forest and park lands. Works on wilderness, wildlife corridors, and forest management.

How they run

Small and lean

We don’t hold a detailed federal filing for this group. Groups this size often file the short form or run below the IRS reporting line, so there’s no budget or crew to show here, and that’s no knock: some of the sharpest local defense in the country runs this way.

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In court

Fights alongside Center for Biological Diversity (1 shared case) and WildEarth Guardians (1 shared case). Same case, same side, on the federal docket. Their dockets on CourtListener.

The record

On the record with the agencies

13 comments on federal decisions since 2023, each filed under the group’s own name on regulations.gov. The latest on decisions we track:

2026-08-17FWS updates proposed grizzly bear protections for lower-48 statescomment · Fish and Wildlife Service2026-07-10BLM proposes new land health rules for grazing on public landscomment · Bureau of Land Management

Year by year

The record, in order

  1. 1976Gallatin Wildlife Association is formed.the return, formation year
  2. 2023Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Forest Service: plaintiff, closed.the docket
  3. 20243 comments, all to the Fish and Wildlife Service, under the group’s own name.regulations.gov
  4. 20258 comments, most to the Fish and Wildlife Service, under the group’s own name.regulations.gov
  5. 20262 comments, one to the Bureau of Land Management and one to the Fish and Wildlife Service, under the group’s own name.regulations.gov

Hollow, a filing. Every row is a record we hold: 1 federal case with the group on the docket, 13 comments filed under its own name. Nothing here is written from memory.

Their ground

GWA is not on our editors’ record for a threatened place yet. See every threatened place on one map, and who stands for each.

Where and what
Works onnational parks · national forests · wildlife · habitat
Federal landsU.S. Forest Service · National Park Service
Active inMontana
Who writes the rules where they work

The Montana congressional delegation averages 7 of 100 on public lands. See the full scorecard

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Ways in

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Sources and methodNo detailed 990 on record for EIN 81-0519899: see ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. Allies: co-litigation edges derived from the same dockets, same case and same side. Agency comments: regulations.gov comments whose submitter organization is the group’s own name, each row linked to the comment itself. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.