[…] this tribute, I will head off to fish the evening hatch for colorful cutthroats in the pools and riffles of a tucked-away creek that empties into the Yellowstone River. Leigh would have surely encouraged that, and he probably would have suggested that I drop the writing and leave a few hours early. Mixing a […]
[…] adapting in the face of that change. Several recent studies document how hybridization can help species adapt rapidly in this challenging world. Q: People sometimes talk about Yellowstone bison as being “genetically pure.” Should the bison population be glad about that? Should we? A: Yellowstone bison are the only bison in the United States […]
Watch PERC’s short film that tells the story of how private lands hold the key to conserving elk migration corridors in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
[…] the right direction by recognizing the critical role farmers, ranchers, and the lands they steward play in safeguarding our environmental quality. A focus group of ranchers in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem convened by the Property and Environment Research Center in late 2019 revealed that the lack of public recognition for ranchers’ role in conservation was a […]
[…] habitat, new tools are needed to turn wildlife from a liability for private landowners into an asset. Over the last few years, PERC’s work in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has set us on a course to develop a variety of tools that can reduce human-wildlife conflict, increase private land tolerance of migratory species, and […]
[…] 30 effort. These groups are positioned with the local knowledge to address the unique conservation challenges faced by every community. Here in Montana, groups like the Upper Yellowstone Watershed Group and the Blackfoot Challenge are actively bringing together landowners to promote sustainable and profitable stewardship. Groups like these should continue to lead and be […]
[…] options. At PERC, we have several projects that are focused on working with private landowners to develop wildlife conservation solutions in the river valleys coming out of Yellowstone National Park. Through this work, I have learned firsthand how every state in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is different, and how every river valley in each […]
In Yellowstone, conservation starts with taking care of the people responsible for protecting the park’s resources.
[…] affirmed its earlier approval of the project. A year later, a lawsuit was filed challenging that decision. Meanwhile, nearly 10,000 square miles of land within the Greater Yellowstone area were designated as critical habitat for the Canada lynx, and the Ninth Circuit held in 2015 that this development required yet more analysis for the […]
[…] to instead focus on wildlife conservation and what landowner incentives will mean for elk habitat. The reality is private lands are essential elk habitat—elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem spend as much as 80 percent of their time on private land during the winter. These elk impose significant costs on the landowners, unique costs […]