Yaak Valley Habitat Protection

Two of Vital Ground's recent conservation projects protect crucial wildlife habitat in the Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana. With development pressures high across the region, the Broadie Habitat Preserve and Fowler Creek projects conserve more than 500 acres of key habitat in the valley bottom that helps connect public land strongholds in the surrounding mountains. Part of the larger Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystem, the Yaak is home to one of the Lower 48's smallest grizzly bear populations at an estimated 25-30 animals. Improving connectivity between these bears and neighboring populations is crucial to the species' long-term recovery.

Learn more at www.vitalground.org. Thank you for supporting Vital Ground and giving grizzlies room to roam alongside wolves, Canada lynx, moose, elk, mountain lions and countless other wild species!

Video by Eric Ian, with additional wildlife footage by Bob Landis Wildlife Films. Featured speaker: Wayne Kasworm, grizzly bear biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Major support for the projects came from the Wildlife Land Trust and the generosity of private local individuals.