Greater Yellowstone Coalition Inc

Climate change & water protection as the impacts of climate change accelerate across the region, the cold clean water that brings life to greater yellowstone are under threat. To build regional resiliency and protect wildlife and habitat from the mounting challenges of a rapidly changing climate, gyc focuses on advancing policies and projects that protect and restore key waterways around the greater yellowstone ecosystem. Current priorities including protecting 325 miles of rivers in montana through federal legislation, and partnering with scientists, government, tribes, and landowners across the region to develop innovative projects and policies that build resiliency to climate change impacts, with a focus on rivers.

Tribal conservation priorities & partnerships gyc recognizes the western conservation movement has historically excluded and ignored diverse voices and perspectives, especially those of indigenous people. Gyc seeks to change this paradigm by working within strategic partnerships and tribal-centered programs to honor indigenous conservation priorities, advance tribal rights, and return indigenous ecosystem management practices to the landscape. This includes revitalizing the big wind river, building capacity within tribal communities by investing in indigenous leadership, and expanding the cultural and ecological restoration of buffalo. Gycs indigenous staff members lead this work from theorganizations office on the wind river indian reservation in wyoming.