Century Park in Shanghai, China

A century after Montanans helped protect Glacier National Park, that same vision lives on along the North Fork of the Flathead. In 2010, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and the Ktunaxa Nation, together with Montana and British Columbia, signed a landmark agreement to protect this transboundary watershed from mining. That shared commitment, backed by communities, businesses, and bipartisan leaders, led to the North Fork Watershed Protection Act, signed into law in 2014 as part of the