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National park with active glaciers, alpine ecosystems, and ranger-led programs covering glaciology, ecology, and Rocky Mountain geography.

Major natural-history and paleontology museum with extensive dinosaur collection and living-history exhibits — vertebrate paleontology, geology, and evolutionary biology.

Preserved ghost town and Montana gold-rush site — 19th-century pioneer settlement, mining history, and frontier life.

1877 Nez Perce War battlefield with visitor center and ranger programs — covers Native American history, westward expansion, and U.S. military policy.

One of the largest NWRs in the lower 48 — covers shortgrass prairie and Missouri River reservoir ecology, wildlife management, and Montana geography.

1.1-million-acre national wildlife refuge along the Missouri River — wildlife biology, riparian ecology, and Great Plains geography.

Glacier National Park gateway discovery center — covers Rocky Mountain ecology, glaciology, and conservation science near Glacier NP.

Tribally managed bison range on the Flathead Reservation — covers large-mammal ecology, Native conservation history, and grassland biology.

Natural history museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West covering Rocky Mountain ecology, geology, and native wildlife specimens.

Hands-on science center in Helena with interactive exhibits — covers physics, engineering, and earth science through direct experimentation.

Interpretive center at Fort Peck Dam and Reservoir — paleontology exhibits, dam engineering, and Missouri River ecology.

Montana WMA wetland complex — one of the premier spring waterfowl and shorebird staging areas in North America; migratory bird biology and wetland ecology.

Fossil museum in eastern Montana with actual dinosaur specimens and fossil prep lab — covers paleontology, stratigraphy, and Cretaceous-period geology.

NPS living-history ranch preserving an 1860s–1880s cattle operation — covers ranching economics, westward expansion, and the open-range cattle industry.

State park featuring a large black-tailed prairie dog colony — covers mammal social behavior, grassland ecology, and Montana's shortgrass prairie ecosystem.

Wildlife facility near Yellowstone housing non-releasable grizzly bears and wolves — covers apex predator ecology and wildlife conservation biology.

Underground tour of Havre's early-1900s subterranean businesses — covers frontier town history, immigrant labor, and early 20th-century commerce.

National forest spanning Montana's continental divide — forest ecology, Rocky Mountain geography, wildlife biology, and land-management science.

Large national forest in the Montana Rockies — forest ecology, geology, watershed science, and geography across multiple developed recreation areas.

Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park with guided limestone cave tours — covers speleology, cave formation, and Montana geology in a well-developed visitor facility.

Guided limestone cave tours in a Montana state park — covers speleology, karst geology, and cave ecosystem biology.

NPS battlefield site of the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn — covers Plains Indian history, U.S. military history, and Westward Expansion.

National monument battlefield with visitor center covering the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn, Plains Indian history, and U.S. Army campaigns.

2.1-million-acre national forest near Missoula with developed trails and ranger programs covering Montana ecology, watershed biology, and forest management.