We are proud to feature the Bitterroot Valley and the work BRLT supports in conservation, the vision of our landowners, and trust built in the community we love in a short documentary film, Made in Montana, produced by Carhartt, Ace, and Stept Studios.
The video features a storyline that paints a picture of our unique and tight-knit community that makes local Bitterroot Valley conservation possible, and the hardworking families that steward the land. It spotlights BRLT conservation easement landowners Drew and Kaci Lewis and their four young children of Skyline Angus, conserved in partnership with BRLT in 2022. The Lewis family works tirelessly, like all of our conservation easement landowners, to carry on a legacy of family, hard work, and conservation. Narrated by Luke Grimes, the film showcases the value of the farm and ranch community and local families who are building legacies on the land.
Your support makes this possible.
The opportunity to showcase our work on a national level was made possible by you, our Bitterroot Valley community. The way our community has come together since BRLT’s inception in 1997 around shared values to protect the place we love rings loud and clear. Our people are passionate about our one-of-a-kind wildlife, multigenerational family farms and ranches that put food our our table, crystal clear water that provides clean drinking water, and world-class recreation opportunities that makes this place, the one-and-only Bitterroot Valley, home.
It’s clear that conservation is part of our Bitterroot Valley legacy.
Thank you for your generous support, to the Lewis, Severson, Trexler, and Ratcheson families, and to the Carhartt® brand for partnering with BRLT to protect more special places in the Bitterroot Valley for future generations.
How to help
When you support BRLT, your support goes toward on-the-ground conservation success in the Bitterroot Valley. Nearly all of the beautiful landscapes that appear in the video are protected in perpetuity by local landowners through partnerships with BRLT and other partner organizations, including Skyline Angus and Flying E Ranch in Stevensville, and Sandhill Basin in Hamilton. That means preserving critical wildlife corridors for native species like elk and deer, agricultural ground for local families to grow hay and cattle, Bitterroot River and stream frontage that provides clean drinking water and healthy fisheries, and riverfront parks with nature trails where people of all ages can connect with nature.
Behind the scenes with BRLT and Carhartt
Not local to the Bitterroot Valley?
BRLT is one of 1,000 land trusts working in all 50 states to conserve the places that communities depend on. To find a local land trust in your neck of the woods, check out the
Land Trust Alliance’s “Find a Land Trust” search engine.