This year we’re excited that the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative is supporting our work to protect habitat connectivity in the Proposed Great Burn Wilderness. Each year Y2Y funds local community work across the Yellowstone to Yukon region that supports their mission to protect and connect habitat so that wildlife and people thrive.

The Great Burn provides an important wildlife corridor connecting the Crown of the Continent and Selkirk-Cabinet-Yaak ecosystems with central Idaho’s wildlands and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. This roadless region is a critical landscape for species that need large intact blocks of wildlands to survive. It is also prime grizzly bear recovery habitat.

Our work to keep the Great Burn wild depends on support from you, communities and other partner organizations. In 2021 Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative was one of those organizations. Their grant helped further our work to safeguard the region’s wilderness character and also helped support Y2Y’s mission to protect and connect habitat so that wildlife and people thrive from Yellowstone to Yukon.