NRCC is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving species and ecosystems by providing reliable scientific and policy information, bringing people together to formulate and implement sound, effective conservation policies, and building support from an informed public through education and civic engagement.



Founded in 1987, the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving the natural heritage of the Northern Rockies for present and future generations through creative and cooperative problem solving.



Our Strategy

NRCC provides scientific and policy information to natural resource professionals and policy makers, brings communities of diverse environmental stakeholders together to formulate and implement effective and sustainable environmental management practices, and builds support from an informed public through education and engagement.



Our Credo

We believe that human enterprise can and should be conducted in harmony with the environment, and that environmental management practices must be founded on respect for both human and natural communities.



What we do

We created NRCC to understand better what is happening to our natural heritage and our own communities, and to encourage new strategies and partnerships for conservation that serve common interests. We track trends in diversity conservation and community capacity and try to anticipate and identify deep-seated problems, which could be due to a lack of scientific information, pitfalls in decision-making processes, or the disintegration of "social capital." Our goal is to figure out the best way to ameliorate these problems and then to make conservation happen effectively