Join the International Wildlife Film Festival flock.
As a member of the Murmuration Program, you’ll have the opportunity to join filmmakers and team members at special events and on an exclusive excursion around the Lower Blackfoot River.
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Starling
$300 donation
- 1 spot on the exclusive IWFF conservation field trip, led by Clark Fork Coalition
- 1 five-screening festival pass
- Invitation to Sponsor Sneak Peek – Friday, April 17, 5:00 pm
- Premier listing in the Roxy’s on-screen preshow during the festival
Falcon
$500 donation
- 2 spots on the exclusive IWFF conservation field trip, led by Clark Fork Coalition
- 2 five-screening festival passes
- Invitation to Sponsor Sneak Peek – Friday, April 17, 5:00 pm
- Premier listing in the Roxy’s on-screen preshow during the festival
The Field Trip
In the morning, we’ll head to the Gold Creek watershed—a historically important native trout fishery and tributary of the Blackfoot River that is recovering from decades of industrial logging. While this watershed was nearly 90% deforested and highly degraded, a change and ownership and influx of federal funding has created an opportunity to restore this watershed to a fully functional ecosystem. The Clark Fork Coalition is working with the Bureau of Land Management and the Nature Conservancy to restore westslope cutthroat trout, beaver, and overall stream function in this watershed. This tour will tell the story of the impacts of large-scale logging on Gold Creek and how the Clark Fork Coalition and its partners are working to restore the watershed. Attendees will have a chance to see CFC’s recent restoration work to improve fish passage, where we replaced several small 2-foot-wide culverts with 8-foot wide culverts that mimic natural stream function. We will also discuss other stream restoration efforts including beaver mimicry structures, large wood structures, and road removal. The tour will be mostly traveling along forest roads that can be fairly bumpy.
We’ll have lunch along a beautiful section of Gold Creek—guests will have a chance to ask questions, visit with Adam, and stretch their legs before driving back to Missoula.
Trip Lead
Adam Switalski, CFC Project Manager and Restoration Ecologist, will be leading the tour. He has made removing disused logging roads a focal point of his career—to the benefit of rivers and streams, and the life they support, throughout the watershed. (In 2024, Smithsonian Mag ran a fabulous piece about this facet of Adam’s work.)
