Category: Science

For Dr. Karine Pigeon, being outdoors has always been an important part of her work life — and her life when she’s off the clock.

When the Yellowstone to Yukon vision emerged in 1993 we all knew one of the biggest and most urgent tasks was to reconnect the isolated grizzly bear population in Yellowstone with its cousins to the north.  This was not simply necessary for grizzly bears, which would otherwise risk being lost locally, or extirpated*, from the region but for other wildlife…

Grizzly bears are often used as an umbrella species. Their need for large wild spaces where they are secure from threats such as roads and development means that when grizzly bear populations are healthy, their habitat also protects about 80 per cent of other species that live in the same region.   More than 100,000 grizzly bears once…

One wolf’s travels showed conservation must go beyond national, provincial and state borders and offer a way to protect animals on the move from barriers such as development and highways.

In 2017, we awarded Dr. Naima Jutha the Sarah Baker Memorial Fund award for her ambitious project studying B.C.’s Northern Mountain population of woodland caribou.

In 2018, we awarded Rachel Ackerman a Sarah Baker Memorial Fund grant for her social science research in Idaho’s lower Kootenai River Valley. We caught up with her to learn more about her forward-thinking plan.  The Kootenai River is huge, impressive, and vital to people and wildlife in the basin who rely on its water….

In 2018, we awarded Kirsten Reid a Sarah Baker Memorial Fund grant for her ambitious project in one of the wildest places on Earth — northern Canada’s Greater Mackenzie Mountains. Reid is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland. We caught up with her to learn more about her…

Project to study habitat needs of the elusive mammals Do you plan on spending some time in the Rockies or mountain ranges of southeastern British Columbia in the coming months? You can take part in wolverine research. Y2Y is partnering on an exciting project this winter with Wolverine Watch, a scientific collaboration of researchers from B.C….