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The Road Ahead: Celebrating Solutions and Next Steps for Improved Safety and Wildlife Connectivity in Montana's Paradise Valley

Yellowstone Safe Passages (YSP) is celebrating a milestone in their work toward making Highway 89 safer for people and wildlife. On March 11, 2024, YSP released the US 89 Wildlife and Transportation Assessment to the public. The assessment offers proven solutions for seven areas with the highest rates of wildlife-vehicle collisions and detailed explanations why those sites were identified.

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The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem unites us – a wild week touring southwest Montana

GYC’s work in southwest Montana exemplifies the wide range of strategies we deploy to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. From buying gold mines, to working with ranchers to protect grizzly bears, and supporting programs to restore bison, we work with all people to find common ground and develop innovative solutions to protect this ecosystem we all love. Join GYC’s Conservation Director Craig Benjamin on an epic road trip across southwest Montana as he visits the incredible places we work in and people we work alongside to protect this corner of the ecosystem now and for future generations.

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Wildlife crossing projects progress in Teton County, Wyoming

To create safer roads for people and ensure wildlife can move and migrate more easily in Teton County, wildlife crossing structures are being built. Wildlife crossing structures—both overpasses and underpasses and their associated fences—are reliable, long-term solutions for reducing wildlife-vehicle collisions. 

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