The stunning Elk Valley has been home to grizzly bears, bighorn sheep and lynx for centuries. And key parcels of land called the Kootenay Forest Lands project, located within the homelands of the Ktunaxa Nation, are now protected for generations to come.
Your giving is like a watershed — it keeps every inch of the Yellowstone to Yukon region healthy for generations to come.
In April, Y2Y cohosted a speaking event series in towns across Montana for experts to share the successes of wildlife crossings in the state.
Researchers across the Yellowstone-to-Yukon region combine high-resolution animal tracking with NASA satellite imagery to map the movements of wildlife across western North America.
Y2Y and Hipcamp have partnered to help hosts across the Yellowstone to Yukon region to practice good wildlife coexistence.
Achieving our vision across the Yellowstone to Yukon region — spanning the Yukon in Canada to Wyoming in the U.S. and at least 75 Indigenous territories — requires deep and ongoing collaboration. Here are just some of the impactful partnerships we are proud to be a part of in 2025.
Discover the difference you made in 2024 in Y2Y’s latest impact report.
Y2Y works to advance conservation by partnering with diverse communities to connect and protect this vast, ever-changing mountain region. To guide our conservation efforts, we draw from the best available information, including from natural and social sciences as well as local and Indigenous knowledge.
The biodiversity in the Creston Valley, B.C., is unique and thanks to local conservation efforts, still includes grizzly bears. This has created an opportunity for the community to create solutions for how wildlife and people can live alongside each other.
Thanks to your support, Y2Y’s landscape connection team can continue their important work identifying and restoring critical corridors across some of the region’s busiest roads and most important habitat connections.
Thanks to you, we’re making progress towards protecting and connecting more of the Yellowstone to Yukon region.
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