Montana voters remain supportive of conservation, public lands

By: Micah Drew

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: February 20, 2026

Words: 1,191

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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A vast majority of Montana voters oppose elected officials voting to rollback environmental protections and resource management policies on public lands, according to a recent poll on conservation attitudes among mountain west states.

But at the same time, Montanans expressed near-record low levels of concern, though still a majority, about the effects of climate change during the last decade-and-a-half, with a strong split across partisan lines.

That’s according to the 16th-annual Colorado College …

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