Northern Rockies: Yellowstone Field Office
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Accomplishments
- YFO completed the ground-breaking report: Gateways to Yellowstone: Protecting the Wild Heart of our Region’s Thriving Economy. The Gateways report has served to help launch a new initiative in which hundreds of business and community leaders are speaking up for Yellowstone and it’s needs.
- YFO is leading a coalition of our conservation partners in challenging a recent decision by Yellowstone National Park to permit up to 540 snowmobiles per day into the park in winter—twice the daily average over the past three years.
- We are working with state and federal agencies and private parties to finalize an agreement that would allow Yellowstone's bison to range onto thousands of acres of traditional winter range north of the park.
- NPCA played a lead role in generating over 100,000 public comments on Yellowstone’s proposed winter use plan, which when combined with our efforts in past winter use comment periods, represent the largest number of public comments ever received on a National Park Service proposal.
- NPCA led efforts to secure a resolution from the Montana State Legislature in support of adequate funding for our national parks.
- YFO Program Manager Tim Stevens recently testified in front of the House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee, bringing much needed attention to the plight of Yellowstone’s bison.
