Montana Project Learning Tree (PLT)
Project Learning Tree (PLT) is an initiative of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. Proven and Award-Winning! The ward-winning environmental education program designed for teachers and other educators, parents, and community leaders working with youth from preschool through grade 12.
Workshop Schedules and Registrations
- See calendar
- MT PLT workshops provide MT OPI units as well as MT Early Childhood Project credits.
- Request a workshop
- To request a workshop for your school or group email or call Lexi Brown, MT PLT Coordinator, alexios.brown@montana.edu
- National PLT Online Trainings
Facilitators and Steering Committee
Free Activities and Resources
- Family Activities
- Educational Resources
- Explorers Guidebook - Become of Expert Observer
- Walk in the Forest
- Making Diameter Tapes
- Free Activites (Available through PLT State Coordinator alexios.brown@montana.edu )
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- Estimating Individual Tree Volume
- Tree Height - Proportional
- Tree Height - Shadow
- Tree Height - Stick Trick
- Shape of Things - Booklet
- Adopt a Tree Booklet
- Poet Tree - Booklet
- Tree ID Booklet
- Web of Life (Plant) Booklet
- Web of Life (Animals) Booklet
- Tree Identification MT Adult Guide MT
- Tree Identification MT Kids Plant Guide & Activity
PLT Videos and Curriculum Offerings
- Intro video: PLT’s Forest Classrooms Helping Raise Responsible Children
- Intro video: PLT’s Resources to Engage Students in Learning
- Teaching with PLT is Fun and Hands-On
- Lifetime of Learning by Project Learning Tree
- PLT Uses Forests to Teach All Kinds of Subjects
- Curriculum Offerings
Grant Opportunities
- Montana DNRC Conservation Education Funds will be awarded to proposals that contribute to meaningful outdoor nature education experiences for youth or increase and improve the capacity of forestry professionals, volunteers, and partners to deliver quality educational experiences to their clients.
- Local Conservation Districts
- Montana Tree Farm
Sponsorship: Montana State University Extension, Montana DNRC, and the U.S. Forest Service, Northern Region are working in partnership to support the work of Montana Project Learning Tree to develop and deliver high quality natural resource education programs about forests and related resources to educators and students.
Updated 9/25/2025