Our work

The Y2Y mission drives our large landscape conservation approach as we support solutions for connectivity, climate change, transportation, coexistence and more. 

The Yellowstone to Yukon region stretches about 3,400 kilometers (2,100 miles) from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to Canada’s Yukon Territory. It spans five American states, two Canadian provinces, two Canadian territories, and at least 75 Indigenous territories.  

From helping people live near wildlife to advancing wildlife crossings Y2Y and more than 460 partner groups have joined forces to connect and protect this stunning landscape so people and nature can thrive. Learn more about our progress since 1993.

Y2Y was created to harness the passion and experience of groups and individuals, like you, who want to keep this magnificent mountain landscape healthy and intact. Together, we are making this vision possible. Ready to get involved?

Together with our partners, we’re engaged in various projects to help connect and protect habitat from Yellowstone to Yukon.  

Learn more about some of our current hot projects and impact from past projects.

To achieve this grand Yellowstone to Yukon vision, Y2Y protects core habitats, keeps these habitats connected, and inspires others to engage in similar work.

We highlight and focus on local issues that have implications for the region as a whole, and work with key people to stitch together this landscape.

Y2Y’s role is to set the context for regional conservation work by providing the vision for a healthy Yellowstone to Yukon landscape, and to bring partners together to achieve as a network what none of us can accomplish alone. Together, we knit together the landscape from one jurisdiction to the next.

At 3,400 kilometers (2,100 miles) long with a diversity of challenges and opportunities, this trans-boundary landscape demands a multi-pronged approach.

As a science-based organization we conduct, commission, share or analyze the studies to guide our decisions, to tell us what nature needs and how we help tackle key issues like climate change. This work guides our collective efforts and provides resources to support our partners’ work.

Achieving the Yellowstone to Yukon vision was and will always be a group effort. 

Y2Y believes in investing in the partners, organizations and students whose projects help realize the vision of connecting and protecting the habitat of the Yellowstone to Yukon region. 

Partners and organizations are not only supported through our partner grants program, but also we fund emerging projects that support our conservation goals. 

Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows whose research advance Y2Y’s conservation strategy and result in tangible benefits within the region are supported through our Sarah Baker Memorial Fund. 

We are pleased to provide this financial foundation for the conservation community, because we know that it is only together that we will achieve success. 

Learn more about our partners, grants program and funding.