Features
A listing of the Monthly Features from the Y2Y Conservation Initiative
- Controversial Cabled Path Approved at Norquay (May 2013)
- Parks Canada has approved summer use at Mount Norquay ski area, a decision that will see a via ferrata — an adventure activity that fixes the mountain with cables, ladders and bridges to the upper cliffs — installed by next summer.
- B.C. Group Fights for Peace, Lower Fraser and Elk Rivers (Apr/13)
- Publication of the most recent list of the province’s most endangered rivers, to be released today, makes it clear that 21 years later, B.C. still has a lot to learn about managing its watersheds.
- Yellowstone to Yukon Advocate Urges Living With Preservation (Mar/13)
- Tying together a region that stretches from Wyoming’s Wind River Range to Canada’s Northwest Territory might seem an overreach of nationalities, jurisdictions, species, communities and sheer distance. But for conservation adviser Harvey Locke, the idea seems self-evident.
- Canmore Development (Mar/13)
- Canmore residents are concerned about potential new development in the Three Sisters area. Local resident Gary Anderson explains why many residents are unhappy with the proposed changes.
- Y2Y Prez Has Seen It All - Mostly On Foot (Feb/13)
- Today, Heuer is on foot again, this time as the newly hired president of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.
- Crowsnest Pass Wildlife (Jan/13)
- Alberta transportation considers new measures to protect wildlife along the road in Crowsnest Pass. Y2Y is one of the partners working on the project.
- Late Cash Saves Noble Basin (Jan/13)
- A big donation late in the game resulted in the successful protection of 58,000 acres in the Hoback basin, located just south of Jackson, WY.
- Karsten Heuer to Become President of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
- Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) is proud to announce that Karsten Heuer will become the organization’s new President in January of 2013.
- B.C. Land Purchase Protects Grizzlies and Frogs (Sept/12)
- Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) is proud to announce its role in the purchase of 306 acres (124 hectares) of private property near Creston, British Columbia that will help save an at-risk population of grizzly bears as well as the endangered Northern Leopard frog.
- Peel Watershed Staking Ban Extended (Sep/12)
- The Yukon government has extended an interim ban on staking in the Peel Watershed region to May 2013.
- Harper Announces New National Park in North (Aug/12)
- Canada now officially has a new national park located in the Northwest Territories, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today while on his tour of the North.
- Protecting the Muskwa-Kechika (Aug/12)
- The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative released a report recently detailing the importance of the large, mostly untapped region in Northern British Columbia.
- Border-Security Bill Threatens Wildlife Habitat (Jun/12)
- Environmentalists are decrying what they call a "conservation low point" for North America after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would suspend wildlife- and ecosystem-protection laws within 160 kilometres of the U.S.-Canada border in the name of homeland security.
- Website Blackout in Free Speech Fight Against Budget Bill (Jun/12)
- More than 500 websites went dark on Monday for an "unprecedented" protest of what they see as the government's effort to "silence" environmental voices using measures found in the omnibus budget implementation legislation.
- 'Yellowstone to Yukon' Exhibition Opens at Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff (May/12)
- "This assignment was the opportunity of a lifetime," artist Dwayne Harty says. "If I could have any wish, it is that at the end of this century those places between the frame remain as inspiring to future generations as when I experienced them with my own eyes."
- Roadless Rule Reinstatement Protects 6.4M Acres in Montana (Mar/12)
- A decade of uncertainty over managing public roadless lands may have cleared with last Friday's federal appeals court ruling.
- The Limits to Growth: Development in Banff and Jasper National Park Put Into Context (Feb/12)
- With the recent approval of the Jasper National Park Glacier Discovery Walk find out more about development in Alberta's national parks.
- 5 Things You Need to Know About Wildlife Corridors (Nov/11)
- Maintaining and restoring wildlife corridors in the Y2Y region is one of the major goals of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. Learn about the importance of these corridors.
- Action is Needed for Alberta's Castle Wilderness (Jun/11)
- Alberta's Castle Wildland as early as this month, threatening to sever a critical north-south wildlife corridor in the Yellowstone to Yukon region, while destroying core habitat for grizzly bears and other wide ranging wildlife.
- Poll Shows Public Values the Y2Y Region for Landscape, Wildlife Corridors and Spectacular Mountains (Sep/08)
- A recent poll of Americans and Canadians shows that the Yellowstone to Yukon region is most valued for its beautiful landscapes, migration corridors for wildlife, spectacular mountains, peacefulness, and as an important source of fresh water.
