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February 27-28, 2018
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Canmore, Alberta, Canada
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Box 157
Bozeman, Montana,
United States 59771
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Top Story
Globe and Mail - More than 100 MPs and senators have signed a letter to Finance Minister Bill Morneau asking for a historic expansion of Canada's protected land and marine areas to be financed with an investment of $1.4-billion over three years.
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Y2Y In The News
CBC - Parks Canada and local conservation groups, including Y2Y, are hoping a new wolf pack will begin to establish itself in the Bow Valley in and around Banff National Park.
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Science News
BioScience - Y2Y's Jodi Hilty among the authors of this letter showing conservation practitioners have increasingly demonstrated that critical conservation goals can be achieved only if protected areas are functionally connected and embedded within larger, permeable landscapes.
Conservation professionals agree on challenges to coexisting with large carnivores but not on solutions
Biological Conservation
- In this study, researchers conducted an online survey assessing a wide range of viewpoints about large carnivore conservation among international professionals.
Journal of Applied Ecology - Researchers at the University of Alberta used DNA marking to study the movements of 74 grizzlies over 8,000-square-kilometers of wilderness in southern British Columbia.
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Also In The News....
Groups ask court to invalidate Yellowstone grizzly delisting
Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Environmental groups and tribal governments are asking a federal judge to rule immediately in their favor and invalidate the federal government's decision to lift protections for Yellowstone grizzly bears.
Cheney to weigh in on wilderness study areas, creating anxiety among groups also studying the issue
Casper Star Tribune - More than 700,000 acres of Wyoming land have been set aside decades ago as possible wilderness. They are called study areas, and only Congress can formally change their designation.
Changes to logging, wildlife management are in new proposal for Custer Gallatin forest
Billings Gazette
- Logging, bison management and carbon sequestration are just some of the diverse items outlined in the hundreds of pages that make up the revised Custer Gallatin National Forest plan.
National Post - The population of the Porcupine caribou in Yukon and Alaska is growing compared with caribou herds elsewhere in the world, a Yukon government biologist says.
CBC - These insects produce a type of antifreeze that allows them to survive extreme cold.
Yukon News - Owing to their solitary (and rather unfriendly) nature and the remoteness of their environment, wolverines are notoriously difficult to study, and are very rarely seen by humans.
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Employment Opportunities
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Deadline - Until filled
fRI Research
Deadline - February 12, 2018
Montana Wilderness Association
Deadline - Until filled
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Y2Y Appearances
Look for Y2Y staff presenting at or attending these upcoming events and conferences:
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