The North Fork Preservation Association (NFPA) is pleased to announce the 2025 recipients of the Kreck/Fields Scholarship. The scholarship honors Dr. Loren Kreck and Edwin Fields and is given annually by NFPA. Dr. Kreck, DDS, dedicated much of his life to wilderness and natural resource conservation on the Flathead National Forest and was a key activist in the designation of the Great Bear Wilderness and the protection of the North Fork of the Flathead River Valley. Edwin Fields, a well respected builder in the Flathead Valley, spent decades as an activist for protecting Montana’s remaining wilderness and wild places, including founding and serving as the president of Headwaters Montana. After their respective passings, both the Kreck and Field families bequeathed funds to Headwaters. Ultimately, the Headwaters board voted to sunset the organization, and as a result, transferred these funds to the NFPA for the management and administration of the Loren Kreck/Edwin Fields Wilderness Scholarship.
This year, NFPA was able to fund three $2000 scholarships. The pool of applicants was quite competitive. The recipients are Elizabeth Tobey, law student at Alexander Blewett III School of Law, University of Montana; Davis Paul, also a law student in Missoula and Abigail Fuseler, PhD Candidate In Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of Montana. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THREE RECIPIENTS.
