| Greater Yellowstone
While millions of acres within the Greater Yellowstone are protected through park, national forests and wildlife refuge status, the areas of greatest biological importance, about 10% or 2.8 million acres, are not protected. These areas are the crucial winter feed grounds that are necessary for the survival of species such as elk and pronghorn. What’s our vision for Greater Yellowstone?
Where Are We?
Spanning within the boundaries of three states in the heart of America’s Rocky Mountains, Greater Yellowstone is visited each year by millions of people from around the world.
Where is Greater Yellowstone?
Fast Facts
 The headwaters of all three of the nation’s largest watersheds–
the Columbia, the Colorado and the Mississippi–begin here.
Location of the five longest remaining long-distance mammal
migrations in the lower 48 United States.
Habitat for large concentrations of elk, mule deer, bighorn
mountain sheep, bison, and pronghorn, and the southern anchor
of a larger system for wide-ranging carnivores that are critical
to the natural balance: wolves, grizzly bears, coyotes,
wolverine mountain lions, lynx, and fox.
What else makes Greater Yellowstone so precious?
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Q & A
Paul Hansen, the Conservancy's Greater Yellowstone program director, answers questions about Yellowstone's past and its outlook for the future.
Project Profile
Safeguarding Historic
Pitchfork Ranch
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