Below are some of the threats to the health of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
We are working towards a day when Greater Yellowstone's human and natural communities flourish because people act because they understand the importance of the vitality of the regions natural systems.
Snake River Headwaters
The Campaign For the Snake Headwaters – better known by its acronym “C-Fish” – is a visionary effort led by local citizens, businesses, anglers, boaters and conservationists to permanently protect the best remaining free-flowing rivers and streams of northwest Wyoming’s Snake River drainage by including them in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Our primary goal is to convince Congress to pass Wild & Scenic rivers legislation for the Snake Headwaters by the end of 2006. [More]
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Wyoming Range
The Wyoming Range has long been a locals playground of recreational opportunities in Western Wyoming, and important habitat for every major species found in Greater Yellowstone. Now, oil and gas interests would like to build roads and pipelines there. [More]
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 Wolves
Finding ways for humans and wolves to coexist outside of Yellowstone Park. [More]
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Bison
Bison roam freely in Yellowstone Park, but when they leave the park and enter Montana, they can be hazed, captured, and slaughtered. [More]
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Chester Diversion Dam
On Oct. 22, 2008, ceremonial ground was broken for the Chester Dam hydroelectric project on the world-famous Henry's Fork of the Snake River. The project will include fish screens and a ladder that will allow rainbow, brown and Yellowstone cutthroat trout to migrate past this point for the first time in some 70 years, assuring crucial genetic diversity for the imperiled cutthroat.
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Pronghorn
These cattle corrals, located in the middle of a traditional pronghorn migration route in the Gros Ventre Valley east of Jackson, were supposed to be temporary. The pronghorn migration is about to begin — and the corrals were still there on Oct. 23. [More]
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Grizzly Bears
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service removed the grizzly bear from protections of the Endangered Species Act in 2007, and GYC is fighting the de-listing in court. [More]
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Elk and Brucellosis
Brucellosis is a disease that is easily transmissible among elk, and bison, particularly when concentrated on feedlots, and can cause infected ungulates to abort their fetuses. [More]
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Oil & Gas
The national drive for energy is putting Greater Yellowstone's lands at risk of being leased, searched, and drilled for oil and natural gas. From the Wyoming Range in the south, to Caribou Zone in the north, and Clark, Wyoming in the eastern edge of the ecosystem, inappropriate petroleum exploration and production is threatening wildlife, wildlands, and water quality. [More]
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Roadless Area Conservation
Over 4 million acres of roadless national forest lands in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem provide critical wildlife habitat, clean water and some of the best hunting and fishing in the world. Due to GYC's hard work, and after a court decision in September, these lands will be protected under the 2001 National Forest Roadless Rule, which bars new roadbuilding on national forest lands which don't otherwise have roads. [More]
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Phosphate Mining
Phosphate mining in Idaho is concentrated in the southeast part of the state, near Idaho Falls, Soda Springs, and Pocatello. Phosphate is the largest industrial mineral produced in Idaho with yields amounting to 12 percent of the nation's total phosphate output. The processed ore is used largely for fertilizer. [More]
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Beaverhead-Deerlodge Forest Plan
The Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in Southwest Montana contains some beautiful-and ecologically important-lands. It provides a connection for wildlife to the Centennial valley and Central Idaho wilderness areas. So when this National Forest announced plans to review how th eland was used, GYC got involved... [More]
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Madison Valley, Montana
Collaboration is the way business is done in the Madison. GYC, along with several other conservation organizations, is working with valley ranchers, homeowners, and community leaders to promote conservation, land stewardship, community well-being, and ranching activities in the Madison Valley watershed. Working collaboratively with residents and other stakeholders will produce the best long-term conservation of the Madison Valley’s natural landscape. Currently, we are working with residents on two priority projects: growth management and wildlife. [More]
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Idaho Roadless Areas
The state of Idaho has more public land and wilderness than any other state in the lower 48. Idaho also has 9.3 million acres of land that is designated as Roadless Areas, land is free from roads and accessed mainly by trails. Idaho's Roadless Areas make up the core of the last intact forest ecosystem in the lower 48 states — where all of the native plants, fish and wildlife — from the smallest plant to the largest predator — can still be found. The Roadless areas of Idaho’s National Forests are of statewide, national and global significance. [More]
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Endangered Species Act
Help protect the rules that protect endangered species. The Bush administration wants to take independent, expert biologists out of the process for deciding whether proposed roads, timber sales or other projects threaten species like wolverines or grizzly bears. Instead, they want staffers in the very departments who are pushing the project to decide whether it creates a risk to endangered species and their habitat.
Say no to this scheme by telling the Interior Department to withdraw this misguided plan. [More]
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Yellowstone River Floodplain
The Yellowstone River is nationally recognized for its scenic qualities and native trout fisheries. Unfortunately, a slew of rip rap and bank stabilization projects beginning in 1996-97 is turning its banks into something closer to the Ohio Canal. [More]
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Cutthroat Trout
The Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout (YCT) has long been the aquatic icon of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. But invasive non-native species, disease, and mining activity currently threaten the continued existance of YCT in the wild. [More]
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Bozeman Watershed
The Forest Service has proposed a fuels reduction project to help maintain Bozeman's public water supply and reduce fire potential where national forest and private lands meet. [More]
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Cody, Wyoming
Located on the east side of Greater Yellowstone where the rugged Absaroka Mountains meet the sage brush plains of the Big Horn Basin, Cody, Wyoming is thriving western town in a spectacular natural landscape. With a field office in Cody, GYC is working with business leaders, our members, agencies, and local citizens to protect critical wildlife habitat and broaden local support for a variety of conservation issues. Currently, we are working on three priority issues: Shoshone National Forest Planning, Growth management and reducing human conflicts with grizzly bears. [More]
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Gallatin National Forest Travel Plan
The Forest Service is currently finalizing its Travel Management Plan for the Gallatin, which will define how the Forest is used for the next fifteen to twenty years. [More]
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Shoshone National Forest
The Shoshone National Forest is devising a plan for how it will manage lands and water, recreation and industry, and they are seeking input. [More]
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