New financial support is leveraging technology to help communities better understand recreation needs and patterns in and around western Canada’s mountain communities.
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Alberta’s Rockies and foothills under threat of mining
Alberta’s lands, waters and wildlife — and the millions of people who rely on them — deserve a better future than a resource policy that blasts us 45 years into the past.
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Give specialists tools they need to help grizzlies thrive in Montana
Grizzly bears, incredible icons of the West, deserve to be more than history. They are one of the many things that make living in Montana special, writes Jessie Grossman.
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A guide to random and wild camping
Y2Y Alberta program associate Tim Johnson provides tips and best practices for a good experience random camping — all while reducing impact on lands, waters, and wildlife in the Yellowstone to Yukon region.
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Wildlife corridors are an essential part of the Bow Valley
Keeping wildlife in Alberta’s Bow Valley connected is essential to helping people and nature thrive.
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Twisted trees and fever dreams on the edge of Yellowstone
Whitebark pine are found at the highest and coldest locations across the Yellowstone to Yukon region. Important food for grizzly bears, these ancient, rare trees are disappearing as mountain pine beetles, helped by climate change, ravage them.
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Science points to Y2Y as a model
What role does science play at Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative?
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Newly published guidelines make the case for connectivity in conservation
Global guidelines published today by the International Union of Conservation of Nature show ecological connectivity can enhance protected areas, conserve biodiversity, and increase resilience to climate change and should be included in conservation planning.
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Global guidelines for connectivity conservation released
Guidelines for protecting the interconnections of nature to enhance protected areas, conserve biodiversity, and increase resilience to climate change Today, the IUCN WCPA Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group released the first-ever global guidelines for protecting the ecological connectivity of nature. The IUCN Guidelines for Conserving Connectivity through Ecological Networks and Corridors are now available free to…
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Invisible rivers beneath our feet: Gravel bed river floodplains
Gravel-bed river ecosystems and floodplains are some of the most ecologically important habitats in North America.
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Bringing wilderness back in Slocan Valley’s Snk’mip Marsh Sanctuary
The Snk’mip Marsh Sanctuary, a rare forested-wetland ecosystem in southeastern B.C., is being restored to better support wildlife, connectivity, and native plants and amphibians. Y2Y is proud to support this project in the Upper Columbia through our partner grants program.
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