Spring has officially sprung! Migratory antelope, deer, elk, and moose are beginning their journeys from winter refuge throughout public lands across southeastern Idaho to summer habitat, primarily in Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park. And here at the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, our Idaho team is eagerly preparing for the Bureau of Land Management to release the final plan for the Upper Snake East Travel Management Planning Area later this season – a landscape that includes winter wildlife refuges and migratory corridors to summer habitat.

Buckle up! It’s going to be a big year for GYC and the lands, waters, and wildlife of Greater Yellowstone.

Join us for a journey down memory lane and let’s celebrate all we did together for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

In celebration of National Public Lands Day, GYC, as part of the Absaroka Fence Initiative, hosted a workday during which 50 volunteers modified two and a half miles of fence to make it wildlife-friendly and removed 860 pounds of barbed wire from Clarks Fork Canyon near Cody, Wyoming to improve wildlife habitat.

A recap of GYC’s 2021 successes.

GYC continues to push wildlife crossing efforts in Wyoming to ensure wildlife movement corridors stay intact.

Working in cooperation with willing landowners and land managers, Absaroka Fence Initiative aims to ensure fences are functional for livestock management and wildlife movement across the landscape through on the ground projects, public workdays, and outreach to the community.

GYC heads to the field to modify fences into permeable boundaries for wildlife.

In 2020, Wyomingites met Governor Gordon’s challenge and outfitted 2,020 vehicles with Wyoming wildlife conservation license plates. The proceeds, totaling over $300,000, will go towards signage, fencing, as well as under and overpasses to help wildlife safely cross roadways.

The Greater Yellowstone Coalition partnered with Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT), Wyoming Game and Fish, and Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resources Trust (WWNRT) to help address a dangerous situation along U.S. Highway 189 in Wyoming. Now, with funding in place, a wildlife crossing will be constructed in 2022.