The Great Burn Conservation Alliance was founded in 1971 by a group of university students who fell in love with a place. Their summer project was documenting the resources, plants and animals of a little-known wild area called the Great Burn in the northern Rocky Mountains on the border of Montana and Idaho.
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Out of this summer project, the Great Burn received the highest possible rating for inclusion in the national wilderness preservation system. A generation of wilderness advocates was born. And an organization took root with a continuing focus on education, advocacy, and building community around shared love of place.
As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, GBCA has achieved a remarkable list of successes protecting a single landscape with a lean, effective organization.
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