John Montagne interview (1992) Bozeman resident John Montagne, Ph.D. -- a long-time member and the first secretary/treasurer of the Montana Wilderness Association (MWA) -- relates: the founding of The Wilderness Society (TWS) in the 1940s and the MWA in 1958; the Madison-Gallatin Alliance and its work in the Yellowstone National Park area; the Beartooth Range; the Madison Range; the Spanish Peaks Wilderness; Olaus J. Murie; Bob Cooney; John Craighead; Winton Weydemeyer; George Duvenback; Charles C. Bradley; changes in American wilderness activism from the 1960s to 1992; the development of that activism from a grassroots basis to a law-oriented basis.