Science guides our work by identifying the Earth’s most important natural places.  Using innovative tools, we protect and restore these priority places.

We believe that a primary focus on voluntary habitat protection agreements, primarily with private landowners, can ensure that future generations will experience Yellowstone as we have. Our work requires significant outreach to the millions of visitors who love Yellowstone. It requires local, state, and national attention, and, ideally, national legislation and funding. And, it requires participation in the forest planning processes of the six national forests that surround the park. Finally, it requires the support of the region’s residents.

By protecting an additional 2.8 million acres within the Greater Yellowstone, the Conservancy and its partners will ensure intact migration corridors for many of the West’s large mammals, including grizzly bears, elk, bison and antelope. Also, by maintaining the health of the Greater Yellowstone’s headwaters, source of 12 major rivers and an average of four trillion gallons of fresh water, will help “water the West” for future generations.