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Nominations for the Class of 2025

2025 Nominations to the Montana Outdoor Hall of Fame

 

 

Montana Outdoor Hall of Fame Class of 2022

YOU can nominate your conservation hero to be inducted into the Montana Outdoor Hall of Fame, recognizing their outstanding contributions to the restoration, conservation, and protection of our natural environment. Nominees do not have to be living in Montana so long as they have spent some time in the state and their impact to Montana was (or continues to be) significant and lasting.

 

The MOHF Board of Directors makes the final selection of inductees based on the recommendations provided by a review committee comprised of Montana’s conservation, environmental and outdoor community (see below).

 

Normally the Hall inducts about a dozen conservation heroes for the biannual classes. The next banquet/induction will be December 6, 2025, in the Delta Hotels Helena Colonial.

Online Nominations Accepted until Feb. 14, 2025

 

 

The following are criteria used to review inductees (each answer limited to 150 words):

 

How has the nominee made a significant contribution to Montana’s natural environment (lands, waters, fish, wildlife, plants, soil, or air)? Note: The MOHF strives to recognize a broad range of conservation achievements, not just the work of biologists, land managers, or nonprofit advocates. The guiding principle is that all significant contributions to Montana’s environment, broadly construed, merit recognition by the MOHF.

 

How has the nominee made a significant contribution to the public’s enjoyment of or access to Montana’s natural environment? Note: The MOHF wants to recognize contributions to Montana’s environment as well as contributions to the public’s enjoyment. Access to Montana’s environment contributes to that enjoyment.

 

How has the nominee fostered appreciation of and respect for Montana’s natural environment? Note: Montana’s natural environment benefits when Montanans appreciate and respect it. The MOHF wishes to recognize not only contributions that directly benefit Montana’s environment, but also those that benefit it indirectly.

 

How will the nominee’s accomplishments have a lasting impact for Montana’s natural environment? Note: Some contributions to Montana’s environment, however worthy, will not have a lasting benefit. The MOHF wishes to recognize contributions with lasting benefits.

 

How have the nominee’s contributions inspired others to act on behalf of Montana’s natural environment? Note: The MOHF wishes to recognize not just those whose contributions have impacted Montana’s natural environment, but those whose contributions have inspired others to act on behalf of Montana’s natural environment.

 

Note: In the interest of remaining nonpartisan, the MOHF does not accept nominations for persons serving in (or are campaigning for) elective political offices. We’re happy to recognize their accomplishments after they’re no longer running for office. Nominations are not accepted for MOHF board members or their families.

 

Nominations are vetted by a group of reviewers representing a cross-section of Montana’s conservation, environmental and outdoor community including at least one representative from each of the following categories:

 

      • Historical community
      • State and/or federal natural resource agency
      • Hunting conservation advocacy
      • Fishing conservation advocacy
      • Wildland advocacy
      • Land trust preservation
      • Environmental advocacy
      • Environmental history, philosophy, or literature
      • Ranching and farming
      • Native American tribal member

 

Examples of Successful Nominations:

 

Harrison Fagg (download PDF)

 

John Murray (download PDF)

 

Christine Torgrimson and Barbara Rusmore (download PDF)

NOMINATION FORM

 

Due by Midnight February 14, 2025

 

Please submit a complete nomination. Our portal does not allow you to save a partially completed nomination in hopes of finishing it later. We suggest that you write the entire nomination in a word document, cutting and pasting sections into this form. That assures you have a copy of the nomination in case something goes wrong. If submitting a nomination online does not work for you, please contact Executive Director Ariel Rademaker at (406) 285-8636 or mtoutdoorhalloffame@gmail.com to make other arrangements. Thanks.

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