Our Projects In addition to our Most Endangered Places program, Preservation Excellence Awards, Preservation Team Workshops, and Preserve Montana newsletter, MPA takes on a variety of grant funded and contract projects that further our mission to save and protect Montana's historic places. Montana Touchstone Project Saving Rural Heritage Through Education and Capacity Building Hand Raised: The Barns of Montana by Chere Jiusto and Christine Brown. Photography by Tom Ferris. Raising awareness of Montana's icons of agriculture through compelling histories and and stunning photographs of beautiful barns. MPA and JM Kaplan Fund Industrial Architecture Grants Saving Montana's historic industrial properties Inventory and Evaluation Projects Glacier & Yellowstone National Parks Montana Battlefields Inventory Recording and assessing threats to Montana battlefields, big and small St. Wenceslaus Church Restoration Working to preserve and reuse Montana's country churches Restoration Projects Assisting with planning, restoration, and reuse of historic properties Charting the Nez Perce Trail in Central Montana Documenting the flight of the Nez Perce through the Upper Missouri Breaks National Monument and beyond National Register of Historic Places Nominations   ONGOING PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS MPA produces a membership newsletter, holds public meetings and creates presentations that increase public awareness of and appreciation for Montana's fragile cultural heritage, while promoting a broad range of historic preservation activities. ADVOCACY MPA speaks on behalf of historic preservation at the local, state, and federal levels. We coordinate a statewide information network, organize rallies supporting the preservation of threatened historic resources, and lobby in support of legislation which provides protection and preservation incentives for historic places. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE MPA's volunteer historians, architects, city planners and other preservation-related professionals offer timely, direct assistance in a variety of locally tailored forms ranging from limited advisory services for specific historic sites to in-depth weekend workshops focusing on heritage tourism, downtown revitalization, local historic preservation planning, and other preservation-related topics. Several rural communities, such as Virginia City, Malta, Havre, Lewistown, Winnet, Charlo, Joplin, Big Sky, Superior and Fort Benton have benefitted from MPA's Technical Assistance Program.

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