Yellowstone To Yukon Conservation Initiative

New York state is moving forward on protecting migratory birds affected by lights. All state-owned or state-managed buildings will be required to turn off any non-essential exterior lights at night during peak migration season: April 15 through May 31 and then again from Aug. 15 through Nov. 15.

For decades, animals have had to contend with heavy traffic on Washington state's I-90 that has squashed plenty of creatures and cleaved entire populations in two. But not for much longer.

The final consultation period in the Peel watershed plan has begun. Community meetings will begin and end in October and an online questionnaire is available for residents to complete until mid-November. #protectthepeel https://www.yukon-news.com/…/public-con sultion-period-open…/ #protectthepeel

Baiting camera traps in remote areas isn't easy but is essential to understanding elusive wildlife such as wolverines better. By donating to Y2Y, you help fund important field work like this. And there's Just a few days left to have your gift matched by another generous donor. Learn more at http://y2y.net/wolverines

A common risk and threat identified in every state submission was wildlife/vehicle collisions, according to Interior. In every state, highways (and in some states railroads) create a barrier to big game migration, impeding genetic exchange among wildlife populations and access to better winter range or create direct mortality.

A new study shows healthy land and healthy wildlife that support hunting, angling, and wildlife viewing on Bureau of Land Management public lands generate billions of dollars and support thousands of jobs in Western states.
Learn more: pewtrusts.org/wildlifejobs
#WildlifeRec #BLMWild

“We have an opportunity now to look at the idea of connecting up the Yellowstone population to the grizzly population further north in the Glacier-Bob Marshall Country and even opening the door to a recovery in the Bitterroot, which has long been the ‘Holy Grail’ for grizzly recovery in the Lower 48. And so I think we have another chance now,” says Ecojustice attorney Tim Preso.

Montana Governor Steve Bullock's strategy is called Forest in Focus 2.0.

On Oct. 26 in Moscow, ID., join our president and chief scientist Jodi Hilty at the University of Idaho when she makes the case for large landscape conservation in their fall speaker series https://www.uidaho.edu/…/fis…/2018-fa ll-seminar-series/hilty

Such an incredible capture of this important moment for the Banff bison as they explore their range. Read more in the Parks Canada blog post!

These projects will allow chinook salmon, steelhead and bull trout to spawn in Idaho's Bohannon Creek and Big Timber Creek for the first time in nearly a century.

Thanks to those of you who came out to the book launch discussion for Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West at Calgary's Central Library last night. We enjoyed the mix of art, history, Indigenous issues, conservation and water from Y2Y's Hilary Young, Calgary Institute for the Humanities Jim Ellis, artist Leslie Sweder and art critic Nancy Tousley.
If you couldn't make it, it's all in Water Rites, a wonderful book for anyone interested in water in the West, available at Shelf Life Books and other fine bookstores. https://press.ucalgary.ca/books/978155238 9973

It's the northern anchor of the Yellowstone to Yukon region. It's rugged mountains, pure rivers, boreal forests and arctic tundra in northern Yukon. Let's #protectthepeel together in this final push. https://finishthepeelplan.ca/

The bear warning covered an area of the Upper Spray Valley from the Upper Spray Trail and Bryant Creek Trail junction to the Palliser Pass in Alberta's Kananaskis Country while the wolf warning was for parts of the Bow Valley Parkway.

The critique came via open letter from three associations representing 9,000 professional biologists around the country. A separate letter with similar sentiments was signed by an additional 273 university scientists.

Stacey Thoft-Plimmer and her family have been setting camera traps on their property in Montana's Mission mountain range to capture images and videos of the grizzly bears that wander through. It's proven to be a big hit and provides lessons about coexistence.

New mining claims should be banned for 20 years on more than 30,000 acres north of Yellowstone National Park to preserve scenery, wildlife habitat, waterways and outdoor recreation that fuels tourism in nearby Montana towns, the U.S. Forest Service said Friday.