Sunday marked the start of Give Back to Glacier Week.

Glacier National Park’s fundraising partner, the Glacier National Park Conservancy, is asking for help raising $2 million to support 48 projects in the park.

The community giving campaign kicks off the Conservancy’s year-end push to help finance projects ranging from deferred maintenance to research, education and restoration work throughout Glacier.

To help with the effort, the Conservancy’s board of directors has stepped forward with a $50,000 gift. The organization will match all new donations up to that amount through Nov. 7.

“This represents a significant opportunity for our community to support projects and programs that are important for our families,” Conservancy President Mark Preiss said in a press release. “Glacier National Park is why so many of us choose to live here and part of living here is supporting this special resource in our own backyards.”

Even with significant closures related to fires this summer, Glacier is still on track to set visitation records this year. The increased use of the park leads to additional needs, many of which are not covered by government funding alone and need private support to come to fruition.

Donors can choose to donate to specific projects.

The Hidden Lake Trail at Logan Pass, for example, receives 6,000 visitors each day during the busy summer season and needs significant trail improvements.

Interpretive exhibits along Going-to-the-Sun Road need to be replaced and funding is still needed for an ambitious Crown of the Continent Wildlife Study that would stretch beyond Glacier into neighboring states and across the border to Canada – the first large-scale, transboundary and multi-species project ever attempted in the Northern Rockies.

The Conservancy will accept donations on its website, but there are also other ways to support the park, including choosing to fund a project in full and in-kind donations of materials or labor.

For more information, visit glacierconservancy.org.