GYC’s staff, dispersed across the region, know this firsthand and are excited to share some of their favorite things in this new blog series, GYC Staff Picks.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is gearing up to create an Environmental Impact Statement to support the upcoming revision of the agency’s 2003 Montana Gray Wolf Conservation and Management Plan. 

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

Six new wildlife bills are making their way through the Montana State Legislature. Read on to learn about their implications for wildlife, GYC’s position on each bill, and the current status of the legislation.

GYC opposes SJ 14, which is a resolution in the 2023 Montana State Legislature that is bad for bison.

One year ago, the Inter-Tribal Gathering brought together people to elevate native voices throughout Greater Yellowstone and build better government-to-government relationships between Tribes and America’s federal public lands managers. Since the event, GYC has made big strides in protecting and restoring Native conservation priorities.

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. 

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.