The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative or Y2Y is a joint Canada-US charitable organization that connects and protects habitat along the mountain ecosystem from Yellowstone National Park to the Yukon. Map credit: / e-bae b5f2- 0c jpeg / e-bae b5f2- 0c jpeg All facts are taken directly from Wikipedia. Thanks, Wikipedia!

Y2Y works collaboratively with multiple partners - including scientists, conservation groups, landowners, businesses, government agencies and Aboriginal communities - to encourage conservation throughout the region, and to highlight and support local initiatives that support its large-scale objectives.

Y2Y connects and supports a network of organizations, agencies, and individuals doing on-the-ground conservation work in the region.

Y2Y facilitates collaboration among those groups to advance an integrated conservation agenda for the entire region.

In 1993, Harvey Locke, a lawyer and environmentalist, had an idea for a vast wildlife corridor encompassing the mountain ranges from Yellowstone National Park to the Yukon.

Locke, along with other concerned individuals, wanted to link protected wildlife areas to each other so that wildlife species – especially wide ranging mammals like grizzly bears – could move safely between them.

To achieve the Yellowstone to Yukon vision, Y2Y protects core habitats, keeps these habitats connected, and inspires others to engage in similar work. Y2Y highlights and focuses on local issues that have implications for the region as a whole, and works with key people to stitch together this landscape.

Y2Y works with willing property owners to secure land and maintain key connections for wildlife. Y2Y identifies core habitat under risk of development and finds ways to protect it.

Y2Y is a voice for the Yellowstone to Yukon region in advancing policies and practices that support the Yellowstone to Yukon vision.

Y2Y supports education programs and tools that assist people to share space with wildlife.

Y2Y assesses whether development is consistent with its vision and speaks out when it brings more damage than benefit.

Y2Y heals damaged forests and streams to increase the habitat available for wildlife. Regenerative Healing - Groovy!

Y2Y spreads its vision for a connected Yellowstone to Yukon landscape via its ever-growing networks.