mountains

Mountains

The mountain chains stretching from Yellowstone in Wyoming to Canada’s Yukon form an interconnected web of life. Throughout this corridor, grizzly bears and wolves and lots of other amazing wildlife still roam freely. CPAWS is campaigning to protect important links in the chain, including these sites:

What CPAWS is doing

In 1993, CPAWS, working with other groups, helped found the Y2Y Conservation Initiative — an international network of groups and individuals working together to maintain and restore the unique natural heritage of the Yellowstone to Yukon region and the quality of life it affords to residents and visitors.

Our goals:

  • expand certain existing parks and protected areas
  • establish new protected areas
  • improve connections between protected areas
  • ensure protected areas are secure and well managed

CPAWS chapters working on this issue:

Resources

The Y2Y Conservation Initiative is a network of over 160 Canadian and U.S. organizations, institutions and foundations, including CPAWS, that promotes cooperation and collaboration among a wide range of people who value the region's natural heritage. The Y2Y Conservation Initiative uses the best available science to define and design a network of essential wildlife habitat areas and connecting linkage corridors.

www.y2y.net

Take Action

Sign the Peel statement of support
Sign the Peel statement of support
Help create the largest protected area in North America by signing on to this statement of support for the First Nations' goal of protecting the entire Peel River watershed.
Read more | Add your name at Protect Peel
Speak up for the Nahanni headwaters
Speak up for the Nahanni headwaters

Parks Canada has consulted Canadians on this new park in the headwaters of the South Nahanni watershed, adjacent to the recently expanded Nahanni National Park Reserve. Although the official comment period has ended, your input to Parks Canada is still important.

Read more | Write a letter
Keep the Flathead Wild
Keep the Flathead Wild
The Flathead Valley is one of the most biologically important places on earth. A key connection for animals moving north and south through the Rocky Mountains, it is a magical place of great wildness that has never been settled by humans. Help create a National Park in this special area.
Read more | Take action
Love the Castle: Don't log it!
Love the Castle: Don't log it!
For more than 20 years conservationists have been campaigning to increase protection of Alberta's Castle Special Place, in Waterton National Park's backcountry. But parts of the Castle are due to be logged in coming months.
Read more | Take action!

Publications

CPAWS Annual Report 2010 (2010)

Learn about our work, conservation success, and supporters in 2009-2010.

Waterton Glacier Peace Park—Economic Implications (2007)

The economic benefits of expanding Waterton into the Flathead region (2005)

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