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The Blackfoot Challenge is a landowner-based group that coordinates management of the Blackfoot River, its tributaries, and adjacent lands. The Blackfoot Challenge follows a consensus-based approach to include all public and private stakeholders: to coordinate efforts to conserve and enhance the natural resources and rural way of life in the Blackfoot Watershed of western Montana for present and future generations. Assuming a “ridge-top to ridge-top” approach, Blackfoot Challenge members have established committees and work groups to address evolving issues associated with the natural resources and rural way of life in the Blackfoot. Since 2002, the Wildlife Committee, in coalition with its numerous public and private partners, has established both the Carcass Pick-Up and Range Rider Programs, installed electric fencing around beehives and calving grounds, and utilized bear-resistant dumpsters to reduce predator activity throughout the watershed. The area has experienced a 93 percent reduction in grizzly bear conflicts since 2003.