[1] The organization is governed by a board of directors from across Montana, working at the local level through seven chapters in Helena, Bozeman, Missoula, Whitefish, Great Falls, Billings, and Butte.

Wild Montana was the nation's first state organization centered on protecting wilderness and the proper management of public lands.

[1] 1960 – Wilderness Walks begin in the summer of 1960 when Wild Montana founders Ken and Florence Baldwin lead 14 hikers into the Crazy Mountains.

Inspired by the positive feedback they received the next year, they set out with a group of 40 hikers to Table Mountain in the Spanish Peaks.

[11][12] "The Bob" is the most ecologically complete mountain wilderness in the country, with rugged peaks, big river valleys, lakes, large meadows and extensive coniferous forests.

The Bob is the last great stronghold of the silvertip grizzly and is home to every species of mammal indigenous to the Northern Rockies except for Plains Bison.

Spearheaded by John Gatchell, the Accords brought together conservationists and sawmill workers in support of the preservation of huge swathes of roadless land in northwestern Montana.

In response, Wild Montana helped generate, tally, and analyze 7,600 comments on the plan, causing the Forest Service to scrap it.

[15] 2007 – Wild Montana participates in the Blackfoot Cooperative Landscape Stewardship Pilot Project, a plan that added 87,000 acres (350 km2) to the Bob Marshal/Scapegoat/Mission Mountains Wilderness complex.

By 2008, the group reaches consensus on a suite of forest management goals, including the addition of 80,000 acres to the Mission Mountains, Scapegoat Wilderness, and Bob Marshall Wilderness Areas, a move that would safeguard the West Fork of the Clearwater River (a stream crucial for bull trout) and the wildlife-rich slopes of the Swan Range above Seeley Lake.

[17] 2013-2019 – In 2013, Mountain States Legal Foundation files a lawsuit against the federal government on behalf of lessee Sidney Longwell of Solenex, LLC to lift the suspension on the Hall Creek lease.