Peter Metcalf, Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance
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English - February 10, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 46.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsSociety & Culture Education ask empower serve community connection engage montana kalispell flathead leadership Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Directly southeast of Glacier National Park, you can find the Badger-Two Medicine area of the Helena-Lewis & Clark National Forest. In the early 1980’s the land was leased for energy development.
Since 1984 the Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance has advocated for the cancellation of these leases, and they've been successful on all but one, which is still held by an energy development company (at the time of this transcript). Alongside the Blackfeet nation, nationwide and statewide conservation groups, The Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance has helped prevent any energy development of the land thus far.
Peter Metcalf serves as the Executive Director for the Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance.
He talks about trying to create cohesiveness among the various interest groups and conservation efforts, what it looks like to be the sole employee of such an important organization, and how his variety of work has prepared him for his current role.
Check out the Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance at: https://www.glaciertwomedicine.org/
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