The landscape connection team works to connect important habitats that are vital for wildlife.
Animals need enough room to sustain a healthy population. Connection matters. We maintain and restore key corridors and improve wildlife movement across some of the busiest areas in the Yellowstone to Yukon region so animals can safely cross private land and busy roads to meet their needs.
by making sure animals can get safely across roads, private lands, and unprotected public lands across the Yellowstone to Yukon region.
by working with willing landowners to secure ecologically significant wildlife corridors on private lands.
through progressing policies, programs, and funding that strengthen and sustain the conservation of ecological corridors for the future.
More than 204 wildlife underpasses, overpasses, and fencing structures to aid animal crossing and safety are now in place across the Yellowstone to Yukon region (as of January 31, 2026)
As a united effort with willing landowners, we have conserved 2,000 km² (500,000 acres) of private land in vital wildlife corridors, creating connections between protected areas. This crucial connection has led to grizzly bears reappearing in regions of the United States where they have not been seen in more than a century
With your help, we have decommissioned long stretches of road to restore natural habitats
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.
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.
When Y2Y began in 1993, grizzly bear populations in the Yellowstone region had become separated by over 240 kilometers (150 miles) from bears in the Glacier National Park region of Montana and into Canada. Today, the gap between grizzly bear populations in the southern Rockies has shrunk to just 72 kilometers (45 miles).
When I think about what we’ve accomplished together this year, I’m reminded that the most powerful force in conservation isn’t any single policy, paper, or protected area — it’s people coming together around what they love.
Thanks to you, we’re making progress towards protecting and connecting more of the Yellowstone to Yukon region.
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