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.
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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Bison
Bison roam freely in Yellowstone, and now when they leave and enter Montana, a limited number will be protected from hazing, capture and slaughter. Until a recent agreement allowing them to migrate to limited areas north and west of Yellowstone, they were the only large mammal in North America to be constrained by the boundaries of parks. [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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Snake River
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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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 the Caribou Zone in the north, and Clark, Wyo., on the eastern edge of the ecosystem, inappropriate energy exploration and production is threatening wildlife, wildlands, and water quality. [More]
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Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest
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 the land was used, GYC got involved... [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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Yellowstone River
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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 Wolves
Finding ways for humans and wolves to coexist outside of Yellowstone Park. [More]
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Elk
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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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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Cell Towers In Yellowstone
There aren’t many places left these days where you can get away from the ring of a cell phone. Do you think the wild remoteness of Yellowstone should be one of them? [More]
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