GYC is celebrating 40 years of working with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the remarkable Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

GYC opposes SB 295 as written, which is a bad grizzly bear bill in the 2023 Montana State Legislature.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services announced the beginning of a 12-month status review of the health and viability of grizzly bear populations in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem. The review will contribute to the agency’s eventual determination of whether or not the populations warrant removal from the Endangered Species Act’s list of endangered and threatened wildlife. 

GYC is working alongside the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes to ask the Department of Interior to repatriate three land parcels that make up the 111,000-acre “Muddy Ridge” request in support of Treaty Rights and Tribal Sovereignty. 

Through the Yellowstone Bison Conservation Transfer Program, disease-free Yellowstone bison are relocated from the park to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. This is their last step before being restored to Tribal and public lands across America.

The legislatures are back in session in the great states of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, which means lawmakers have been sworn in, new bills are being introduced, and the GYC advocacy team is hard at work monitoring potential changes to state policy that affects Greater Yellowstone conservation.  

Guest blogger Darren Calhoun writes on the devastating effects of Diversion Dam on the Big Wind River and what can be done to help this river heal.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is holding a public comment period on their draft grizzly bear management plan, which will guide how grizzlies are managed in the state.

Yellowstone National Parks made the monumental decision to move away from bison management focused on population reduction and slaughter, and instead focus on providing Tribal treaty hunting opportunities and entering more animals into the newly expanded Bison Conservation Transfer Program.

Take a look back at the Greater Yellowstone conservation wins from 2022.

Learn some of the Apsáalooke place names of beloved rivers, mountains, and other natural areas throughout the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

GYC has partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to review all five national forests surrounding Yellowstone National Park with the goal of identifying and subsequently decommissioning illegal, unnecessary, or unsuccessfully closed roads and restoring the roadbeds back to a natural state. The roads are prioritized for restoration according to their potential to benefit grizzlies and other wildlife.