As glaciers retreat and habitats shift, connection is everything.
2025 is the International Year of the Glaciers’ Preservation — a moment to reckon with what we’re losing and what we can still protect. From melting ice fields to threatened habitat to fragmented migration routes, our changing climate is redrawing the map of the Yellowstone to Yukon region. But with change comes opportunity!
Join Y2Y for five hope-filled film and panel discussions exploring how wildlife, communities, and ecosystems adapt and endure when landscapes transform. And the stories of the people making a difference on the landscape.
One Zoom link. Three sessions. Solutions that connect us all.
This online event is free to attend. Each screening includes panel discussions and an opportunity to ask your questions with filmmakers, Y2Y scientists and program experts, Indigenous knowledge keepers, and conservation leaders working to keep the wild connected.
Event details:
When: Sunday, November 16, 2025, 11 AM– 5 PM Mountain Time
Where: Online through Zoom
Cost: Free
Film schedule:
11:00 AM – Embers and Losing Blue
Two intimate portraits of climate disruption: wildfires reshaping forests and glaciers vanishing from mountain peaks. As ice melts and ecosystems burn, these films ask how we create refuge in a warming world—and why protecting connected habitat is more urgent than ever. A panel follows, with filmmaker Sasha Galitzki, Y2Y Director of Science Dr. Graham McDowell, and special guests from Losing Blue.
1:00 PM – Always Will Be There
An Indigenous-led journey into grizzly country, where traditional knowledge and modern science converge. This film reveals how protecting sacred landscapes and wildlife corridors safeguards both cultural continuity and climate resilience across generations. A panel follows with Y2Y Landscape Protection Director Tim Burkhart and Gillian Staveley from the Dene Kayeh Institute.
3:00 PM – A Bridge for Bighorns and Cascade Crossings
When highways carve through migration routes, wildlife can’t reach the climate refugia they need to survive. Watch how innovative crossing structures reconnect fragmented landscapes — giving species room to move, adapt, and endure as their world shifts beneath them. A panel follows with Y2Y Landscape Connectivity Specialist Tim Johnson, Daniel Anderson Y2Y Senior Outreach Specialist for Wildlife Passage, and a special guest from Cascade Crossings.
Photo credits: Bighorn sheep, Shutterstock / Mountain lake, Kelly Zenkewich / Mountain bluebird, Shutterstock
Event Location
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