Together, We’re Greater

For more than 40 years the Greater Yellowstone Coalition has been working to protect the spectacular lands, waters, and wildlife of the vast Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. It’s a big job – a 22-million-acre job, to be exact. The region is among the wildest places left in North America, and our aim is to keep it that way.

What we’ve learned over the last four decades, and even more acutely understood in just the last few years, is that conserving a place as big as Greater Yellowstone starts small. Conservation of this beloved region begins first in conversations with friends, stakeholders, and neighbors. It’s working together with all people to build home-grown solutions that protect iconic wildlife, our public lands, and the cold, clean waters that are the lifeblood of Greater Yellowstone.

And it turns out that when we work together, we’re greater.

The Greater Yellowstone Coalition has launched a strategic marketing campaign to build awareness of our efforts to keep the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem protected and wild. We’re the only nonprofit organization solely dedicated to protecting the 22-million-acre area that includes Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, five national forests, and three national wildlife refuges. Importantly, more than 49 Indigenous Tribes have current or ancestral ties to these lands.

With ongoing political attempts to chip away at the public lands, waters, and wildlife of Greater Yellowstone, it’s critical to broaden the conservation tent and work across fence lines to protect the things that make the West what it is. We do this work for and alongside you – our advocates and supporters. We protect Greater Yellowstone with pragmatic, scienced-based policies and community collaboration. It goes without saying that it’s not always the easy path, but our commitment to local partnerships sets apart the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and it builds into something greater than just one organization.  

Over the next year, we’ll be telling this story and invite you to follow along. Conserving a place this special takes all of us.

– Emilie Ritter, Director of Communications and Marketing [Bozeman, MT]