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Karsten Heuer,
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FEATURE VIDEO
Grizzly Study 
 
 
Remote camera captures this grizzly rubbing on a tree in Glacier National Park.
 
Celebrating 20 Years of Conservation
February 2014
Dear Friend of Y2Y,
 
It's hard to believe but as of last December, Y2Y is twenty years old! I was at the inaugural meeting where the Yellowstone to Yukon vision was officially launched and will never forget how it changed conservation: from then on we knew protecting isolated parks wasn't good enough; we had to link them at a continental scale. 
 
To mark this birthday and all the efforts of the more than 300 partners we've worked with since, Y2Y is hosting a celebratory gathering. As a community we'll share and learn from our accomplishments and strategize about the next 20 years.
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Whether it's the 6-fold expansion of Nahanni National Park, the establishment of the Muskwa Kechika protected areas in northern British Columbia, or many of the other major accomplishments in the Y2Y region over the last 20 years, much of it has happened through land-use planning. 

 

It doesn't sound too sexy but as the following articles show, land-use planning remains one of our best tools for determining how people and nature coexist:. 

  • In Let's Sit Down and Talk, we show how our Montana partners are bringing people together to delineate where they can mountain bike, log, and orient nature in the Whitefish Range.
  • In Going for Gold we see how Y2Y is leading an effort to protect and link more important headwater habitat along the Eastern Slopes of southern Alberta.

 

We hope you enjoy these and our other stories in this edition of E-Connections.

 

  

For the wild,

  

Karsten First Name Signature  
Karsten Heuer, President 
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative 
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Y2Y Anniversary  
Guess Who Turned 20?
Twenty years ago the Yellowstone to Yukon vision was officially conceived. Thanks to the unwavering support of our partners and supporters we've turned this visionary idea into a global model for large-landscape conservation. Now it's time to celebrate. 

        

Get the details...

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Y2Y project manager, Juri Peepre was awarded the prestigious Order of Canada.
Many of the beautiful parks and wild spaces people enjoy in British Columbia and the Yukon were made possible thanks to Juri Peepre's work. Not only does this award acknowledgement Peepre's outstanding career, but also the importance of conservation to Canadian society. 

        

Learn more... 

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Partner Land-Use Planning Success Story  
Let's Sit Down and Talk

Whitefish Range Partnership members look out over the land they love. 
Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands. At least that was the strategy the Whitefish Range Partnership took when the future of their backyard was at stake.  

       

Find out how they made land-use planning history...  

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Y2Y Alberta Land-Use Planning 
Going for Gold
 
These are the words I hear over and over as commentators announce the various events from the Sochi Olympics.
 
"When you are in the final stretch for the gold medal, you got to leave it all out on the ice/hill/slope etc." 
 
These words inspire me, and they remind me that this is exactly what we need to do now that we are in the final stretch of southern Alberta's public consultation.    

  

Find out how you can help...

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Y2Y Yukon Land-Use Plan
It Isn't Over Till It's Over
Y2Y partners are going to court to continue the battle to protect the Pee Watershed.

Conservation of the Yukon's Peel Watershed, an unspoiled contiguous wilderness seven times the size of Yellowstone National Park, isn't going to happen without a fight. 

  

See why...

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DNA samples from rub trees help scientists determine the number of bears in the Cabinet-Yaak Recovery Zone.
Preliminary findings conclude there are approximately 42 grizzly bears in the Cabinet-Yaak Recovery Zone. The news is important to many from conservationists to industry.  

        

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The Boon's are not the only one's who will pay a price if the Site C dam and reservoir gets approved.
Arlene and Ken Boon wake up to an enviable view - at least for now that is. Their third-generation prime farmland will be underwater - forever - if the proposed $8 billion dollar Site C dam and reservoir project gets approved. 

 

See how this loss could impact you...

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Campaign Update
 Flathead BioBlitz Tour 

See why the Flathead is worth protecting.

Scientists discovered a newly-described spider species in B.C.'s Flathead that moves so fast that the scientists named it after a sleek Italian motorcycle: Apostenus ducati!.  


          

Click to see what else they found... 

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