The Montana Way
Nurturing Montana’s Culture and Character
We all have a responsibility to be good citizens as well as sustainable land, water and wildlife stewards. The Montana Way is our strategy to increase our storytelling, film, and other media to share best practices, stories and successes, and provide resources for newcomers to learn how to integrate into their communities.
Education: Educate and provide resources to help communities with their future expectations, including sustaining economy, working lands, and our cultural heritage.
Our current campaign is called Outside Kind. The primary goal of Outside Kind is to share best practices, principles and tips for enjoying the outdoors together. Whether you wish to encourage your friends and family or visiting guests to hike kind, ride kind, ski kind, wag kind, etc., Outside Kind offers users consistent and clear guidelines around outdoor activities and positive local ethics.
Outside Kind is facilitated by One Montana with the support of GVLT, and currently includes the following organizations: Bridger Ski Foundation, City of Bozeman, Friends of Hyalite, Gallatin Valley Land Trust, One Montana , Queers & Camo, Run Dog Run, Southwest Montana Mountain Bike Association, US Forest Service, Winter Wildlands Alliance.
In addition to facilitating Outside Kind, One Montana is also leading the effort for Hunt Kind.
More information can be found at www.outsidekind.org.
Storytelling: Encouraging imagination and connections
Share stories and successes of what is working what is not.
Highlight local stories of people who know the land and who steward Montana’s waters, working landscapes, communities and agricultural heritage.
Share the unique stories and perspectives of our ranch partners.
Celebrate successful stories about Montana’s young and emerging leaders.
Communicate the challenges and problems that the trends are identifying.
Partner with small independent writers and press to write stories about things going on around the state that illustrate the trends/changes happening, and what people are doing to adapt to them.
Explore questions such as “How is the glue and fabric of Montana going to change, and how is Montana going to adapt?
Use solutions journalism to re-imagine and show what is possible for Montana’s future.
