Why join?
- Meet people who are interested in your interests — native plants!
- Get outside! Go on field trips and events featuring native plants!
- Learn more about natives, their identification and uses.
- Be part of the premier independent organization in the state working on plant conservation issues.
- Get our quarterly newsletter, the Kelseya, when it’s hot off the presses.
- Get personal invites for upcoming MNPS Presents! online events
- Link up with academics, land management & natural resource professionals, horticulturalists — our Society provides both professional association and networking.
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Choose to join or renew & pay online — or print out a paper form to mail in with a check or money order.
- You can pay online without a PayPal account – at the very bottom of the online form, under “Payment Method,” there’s a dropdown box.
- If you click on the arrow inside that box, you can pay with the credit card of your choice.
Choose to affiliate with a Chapter, or with one of the two at-Large Areas:
- Perhaps you’d like to join the Chapter where you live, or …
- Maybe you have an affinity for a different part of the state, or …
- Possibly you don’t want to limit yourself geographically, and would rather affiliate with either the Eastern-or Western-at-Large area.
The place you affiliate with will keep you in the loop about what’s going on locally!
Changes to your contact info?
Please send an email to our Membership team, or send a note to MNPS Membership, P.O. Box 8783, Missoula MT 59807-8783.
Membership policies
Download our Membership brochure
Any person, family, business or organization who agrees with the purposes of this organization is eligible to join the Montana Native Plant Society.
Chapter affiliation affects how your dues are distributed:
- If you affiliate with a Chapter, part of your dues go to that Chapter.
- If you affiliate with the Eastern or Western-at-Large areas, all of your dues go to the State Society.
Renewal
Membership runs from March 1 through February 28th of the following year. A membership processed before the end of October will expire the next year on February 28th; those processed after October 31 will expire February 28th of the year after that.
In January, members receive an email reminding them to renew their membership, if due. (We don’t remind people whose membership is current!) People who haven’t renewed by the end of January can expect to receive a reminder postcard. If you have questions, email our Membership team.
Lifetime membership
Any individual named person can become a Lifetime member.
Lifetime business memberships are also available. A business that supplies native plants and has a lifetime organizational membership will receive special recognition in our Native Plant Source Guide, as well as a certificate to display in their place of business and business publications.
“YOU could be the sparkplug who starts a local chapter where one does not exist! Only ten paid members are needed to form a new chapter!”