Montana Raptor Institute for Reseach and Education (MTRI) is nonprofit organization established 2007. It is located in the small town of Polson, Montana which is nestled between Kalispell and Missoula at the southern end of beautiful Flathead Lake.
 The Mission of MTRI is to engage in scientific research, conservation, and education activities with raptors common to Montana, but also to explore and understand Montana’s raptors. The scope of research ranges from fundamentals to problem solving. MTRI research serves to increase an understanding of biological and ecological mechanisms which provide conservationists and wildlife managers with information essential to a successful natural resource conservation in a dynamic, ever-changing world.
The Institute’s conservation biology goal is to encourage and develop strategies that employ the results of research to help address common ecological problems, and also serves to educate the public about the needs of raptor species and their natural resources. The goal of the education venue is to promote the idea that the natural world and all its living organisms possess intrinsic worth. Inherent to this idea is the understanding that humans are not disjunctive from the natural world, but are a part of it, integral members that possess the responsibility of ethically sound stewardship.
Montana Raptor Institute for Research & Education will develop and provide a network of wildlife research projects and organizations to add to the continuation of studies to protect and understand the Montana’s raptor community.
 Montana Raptor Institute for Research & Education (MTRI) is a wildlife research, conservation, and education organization working under the umbrella of Mission Mountain Audubon Society, while pursuing our own Federal Non-profit status. MTRI engages in sanctioned, non-lethal, research and supports the implementation of commensurate conservation programs. MTRI, additionally, acts in service of undivided loyalty to the natural world as true defenders of wildlife and will not compromise the safety or well-being of any human or animal in the course of research. MTRI will not ally with any program of resource exploitation or population control that involves the unnatural removal of species with unknown consequences. MTRI will not engage in vivisection, physiologically insulting research or any program that unnaturally manipulates any species, population, or individual. MTRI will not subject animals to inhumane procedures, studies, or methods. MTRI will passionately defend, and live by the understanding that animals possess an intrinsic and supreme worth in the natural world.
Peregrine Falcon behavior Study
Utilizes video recording technology to observe eyrie activity in a non-invasive manner to better understand what takes place at natural nest sites. Read more >>
Fledgling Project
To Provide developmental activities for area school kids. These programs take place in the field or in the class and are designed to stimulate thought about wildlife activity in our surroundings. Read more>>
Flathead Lake Osprey Project
Document and observe osprey nest platforms around the southern shore of
Flathead Lake to determine activity, and production of healthy young.
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