Badger-Two Medicine, Days of the Piikani celebration
Date: 09/23/2025
State: MT
Issues: Student Education, Watersheds, Wild Lands, Wildlife
Partner: Blackfeet Nation
Airport Origin : Browning, MT
Mission
Conduct overflights with the Blackfeet Tribe and Blackfeet Culture Camp during the Piikani Days Celebration to connect youth with their ancestral homelands and the aerial view of landscape threats to Tribal leaders.
Badger-Two Medicine, a breathtaking landscape that holds both ecological and cultural significance. As we flew over the heart of the Crown of the Continent, we saw how the Badger-Two Medicine connects Glacier National Park, the Bob Marshall Wilderness, and the Blackfeet Reservation - a powerful reminder that landscapes don’t follow the lines we draw on maps. From above, the rivers, valleys, and forests formed one living system. This area is the traditional homeland of the Blackfeet people and the headwaters of Badger Creek and the South Fork of the Two Medicine River - waters that flow through the Reservation and nourish the northern plains of Montana.
The Badger-Two Medicine is wild country in every sense - it provides crucial habitat and migration corridors for grizzly bears, wolverines, and westslope cutthroat trout, all species that depend on intact, connected ecosystems to survive. Seeing it from the air helps us understand why protecting places like this matters, from threats of oil, gas, and development - not just for wildlife, but for future generations who will inherit these lands and waters. We’re so glad to our passengers who took to the skies, during the Days of the Piikani celebration, to explore this incredible region and to learn how conservation, culture, and community all come together here.
Photos from the 9/23 flights and
the 9/24 flights.