Quite literally, there is no place on earth like Greater Yellowstone. It is fire and ice. It is jagged mountain peaks and verdant valleys. It is acres of lush forests bathing mountainsides in vivid greens and stark sagebrush plains stretching to the horizon. It is the hissing and spewing of geysers and the serenity of meadows carpeted in wildflowers. Above all. it is a rarity in this day of relentless development — a wild and alive place where the people who live, work and recreate here can experience the unparalleled wonders of one of the world’s last largely intact temperate ecosystems.

The Greater Yellowstone Coalition, comprised of more than 18,000 supporters nationwide and beyond, give their time, money and voice to protect these precious lands.  A 20-million-acre ecosystem requires constant attention to ensure public and private lands are continually managed for long-term sustainability of the pristine watersheds and abundant wildlife. Below are just a few of the issues we are currently working on today:

Phosphate Mining: Poisoning lands, waters, wildlife in Idaho

What's Happening: Even as selenium is released from phosphate mining in the southwest corner of Greater Yellowstone, the Bureau of Land Management continues to accept new proposals for even more mining. Last fall the ...

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Gallatin National Forest: Wild gateway to Yellowstone

What's Happening: Good news for the wild Gallatin continued in early April when the forest unveiled an interim travel plan for the 148,000-acre Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study Area. Though not perfect, the plan significantly reduces ...

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New World Mine Reclamation: A success story

What’s Happening: A deal between the Trust for Public Land, U.S. Forest Service and two families who own private land in the New World Mining District will forever protect 1,500 more acres just outside of ...

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Forest Jobs & Recreation Act: New GYE Wilderness?

What’s Happening: Last Friday, GYC staff and members hiked up Hellroaring Creek in the Centennial Mountains, an area proposed for wilderness designation in Montana Sen. Jon Tester's bill, the Forest Jobs & Recreation Act. Check ...

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McCullough Peaks: Beautiful badlands, threatened habitat

What’s Happening: Good news for the McCullough Peaks' rich diversity of wildlife and scenic values: The state director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Wyoming agrees with us that proposed natural gas drilling ...

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Our National Forests: Time to take a fresh look

What's Happening: The U.S. Forest Service is in the process of developing a new national planning rule to provide guidance for how our nation's precious resources are managed into the 21st century. We, along ...

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Yellowstone Winter Use: Phasing out snowmobiles

What's Happening: Yellowstone National Park is currently engaged in creating a long-term plan for managing winter use in the park. A Draft Environmental Impact Statement is scheduled for public comment in the spring of 2011. ...

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Chill, Baby, Chill: Shoshone next target of oil and gas frenzy

What's Happening: Drilling for oil and gas hasn't taken place on the Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming for at least two decades, and when it's happened the wells have been mostly dry. That didn't stop the Forest Service ...

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Wyoming Range: Preserving Wyoming's outdoor heritage

What's Happening: More good news for clean air and unspoiled habitat when the Bridger-Teton National Forest announced Jan. 28, 2010 that it wants to remove 44,700 acres of the Wyoming Range from energy development. That ...

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Bridger-Teton: Where deer, antelope (pronghorn) and griz roam

What’s Happening: Many trails were closed and those that remained open were restricted beginning in the summer of 2009, protecting vast tracts of meadows and forests for such challenged species as sage grouse, peregrine falcons, elk calves and grizzly ...

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Grand Teton N.P.: Wrangling with Wyoming over state lands

The Issue: Wyoming still owns 1,366 acres inside the national park that date to statehood in 1890. Wyoming wants to maximize the revenue from its state lands to provide for the financial beneficiaries of these ...

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Absaroka-Beartooth Front: Yellowstone's wild side

What’s Happening: The Bureau of Land Management office in Cody, Wyo., is working on a Resource Management Plan (RMP) that will determine how much of the Bighorn Basin, including the wildlife-rich Absaroka-Beartooth Front, is managed ...

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