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The wild heart of North America - the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem - is home to vast landscapes, roaring rivers, iconic wildlife, and diverse communities. What kind of threats face this remarkable place, and how can we ensure its protection? Join us to hear the stories of those who love this wild ecosystem. Presented by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, an organization dedicated to working with people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: https:// ...
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How Native Pollinators Keep Greater Yellowstone Blooming
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Send us a Text Message. It’s no secret that Greater Yellowstone contains some of the most beautiful wildflower landscapes in the world. In late spring and early summer, fields explode with yellow, purple, pink, and many more vibrant hues found in our native blooming plants. We can thank our native pollinators for providing such a show. However, Gre…
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Studying Yellowstone's Iconic Wolves
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Send us a Text Message. Wolves in Greater Yellowstone represent one of the greatest conservation success stories. Once absent from the ecosystem, a reintroduction nearly 30 years ago brought back this keystone species to the landscape. Today, Yellowstone wolves are renowned across the world and represent a significant economic driver through wildli…
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Trail Crew Work in Yellowstone’s Backcountry
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome back to the Voices of Greater Yellowstone podcast, where we share the stories and science of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. As we mentioned in our previous episode, long-time host Kristin Oxford has jettisoned off to her next adventure. I’m Emmy Reed, producer and editor of the podcast, now stepping in behind the…
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Surviving the Cold: How Winter Habitats Sustain Wildlife
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Send us a Text Message. Winter is a brutal time of year in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The sun rises late and sets early, temperatures stay well below freezing for weeks on end, and the snow can pile up foot on top of foot. For the ecosystem’s many ungulates, including pronghorn, elk, deer, and moose, winter is the hardest season to survive.…
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Innovative Wildlife-Livestock Conflict Prevention
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Send us a Text Message. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is a vast landscape shared by people and wildlife. Habitat for species like grizzly bears, wolves, elk, and more isn’t just found within public lands, but exists alongside, and even overlaps with, the wide-open working lands of this region. With wildlife and people living in such close proxi…
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Send us a Text Message. A question we commonly ask fans of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is: If you could see one animal out in the wild, what would it be? It may surprise you that the most popular answer by far is the wolverine. So, why are wolverines at the top of so many peoples’ wildlife bucket list? These elusive critters are rarely seen a…
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Conservation Storytelling through a Lens
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Send us a Text Message. They say, “a picture is worth a thousand words,” although sometimes it feels like we’re left speechless when viewing the spectacular photos and film of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. People from across the globe who have never visited this remarkable region feel a connection simply from the story these images tell. From …
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Send us a Text Message. To fit with the spooky theme of today, Halloween, we are spending some time with one of Greater Yellowstone’s most enigmatic and charismatic creatures. If you’ve been to Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park, you’ve definitely seen these beautiful, surprisingly large, black birds that seem dead set on making mischief. Th…
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Global "Weirding" and Climate Conversations
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Send us a Text Message. We know Greater Yellowstone is a remarkable ecosystem. It is also an increasingly vulnerable ecosystem. The impacts of climate change on this landscape can be felt far and wide and are showing up in some surprising ways. As the impacts of climate change put our communities, water, and wild lands at risk, GYC is working along…
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Send us a Text Message. Directly on the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park, Crevice Mountain rises some 3,000 feet above the Yellowstone River and is a prime example of what makes the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem so extraordinary. The area provides vital habitat for grizzly bears; is an important migration corridor for elk, mule deer, and …
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Send us a Text Message. The beautiful, unbroken forests found in Greater Yellowstone are an integral part of the ecosystem’s overall health and vitality. They provide crucial habitat and forage for its many wildlife species, are buffers against the effects of climate change, and offer nearly endless opportunities for solitude and recreation to us h…
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Send us a Text Message. If you’ve ever spent time in the high, wild reaches of Greater Yellowstone, up near the tree line, you may have come across a silvery, gnarled pine tree. If you’ve seen it, chances are you’ve encountered a whitebark pine. These remarkable trees can live upwards of 1,000 years, and are often the highest elevation pines you’ll…
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Northern Arapaho Cultural Preservation
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Send us a Text Message. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is home to awe-inspiring landscapes and iconic wildlife. And since time immemorial, it’s been stewarded by Indigenous People who view its lands, waters, and wildlife as sacred. The Indigenous way of caring for the land acknowledges its life-giving energy, is centered on reciprocity, and uses…
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Send us a Text Message. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is replete with opportunities for adventure. There is no shortage of hikers, mountain bikers, climbers, mountaineers, hunters, and more out exploring the ecosystem at any given moment. With all that space, and so many people out in it, there is also no shortage of opportunities to get in a b…
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Send us a Text Message. Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam. This 19th-century poem line turned western song lyric evokes days past when wild bison covered wide open spaces across North America. But these days, the only place wild American plains bison can be witnessed in large, free-roaming herds is within Yellowstone National Park. Yellows…
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Send us a Text Message. Panther, painter, mountain screamer. Catamount, ghost cat, puma. These are just a few of the regional and colloquial names for an elusive carnivore that stalks the wilds of Greater Yellowstone. It’s an animal many folks go their whole lives sharing habitat with without seeing even once in the wild. Here in the Greater Yellow…
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Send us a Text Message. As Aristotle once said, “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” It is no secret that the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem inspires countless artists using every medium imaginable to create masterpieces depicting what this landscape means to them. In Episode 08, we si…
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Tribal Rights and Yellowstone's 150th Anniversary
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Send us a Text Message. March 1, 2022 marked the 150th anniversary of the founding of Yellowstone National Park. This important milestone is reason to celebrate this special place, but also reflect on its history and envision a more inclusive future. Despite myths about Yellowstone being an untouched, uninhabited land before the Yellowstone Park Pr…
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Send us a Text Message. Elk in Paradise: it doesn’t get more idyllic than that. In Montana’s appropriately named Paradise Valley, an enormous amount of elk congregate to forage, rest, and find safety in numbers. Many travel straight over from Yellowstone National Park, which sits at the southern end of Paradise Valley. However, elk encounter numero…
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Yellowstone Rocks! Geology and Volcanology
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Send us a Text Message. Towering geysers. Colorful hot springs. Gurgling mudpots. Steamy fumaroles. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is one of the greatest destinations on earth for observing hydrothermal features. So, what makes it such a geological hotspot? In Episode 05, we'll chat with geologist and volcanologist Dr. Lisa Morgan, a scientist e…
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Send us a Text Message. Wildlife migration and movement is the heartbeat of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. It ebbs and flows as one of the most astonishing and ancient movement corridors on Earth. What barriers do these species face while traveling across their habitat? We’ll learn all that and more in Episode 04. During this chat with the Grea…
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Climate Change and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
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Send us a Text Message. Reduction in snowfall and snowpack. Warmer water temperatures. Increased droughts. More forest fires. What does this all mean for our future? Climate change is a real threat to the planet, and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is not immune to it. In Episode 03, we sit down with paleoclimatologist Cathy Whitlock to discuss w…
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Send us a Text Message. Grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem are an iconic species. After almost disappearing from the landscape, they’ve made a miraculous recovery over the past several decades and are once again a steady presence. However, there’s lots of work to be done to ensure bears and people thrive on the land together for gen…
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Send us a Text Message. Montana's rivers are a lifeblood for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and its wildlife and people. They provide habitat for aquatic species, drinking and agricultural water, and countless jobs for Montana's $7.1 billion outdoor recreation industry and beyond. So, how do we ensure these crucial rivers are protected for gener…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the Greater Yellowstone Coalition's new podcast, Voices of Greater Yellowstone! Join us on this journey to hear the stories of those who love the wild landscape known as the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. If you've been lucky enough to live or travel here, you know just how special it is. With Yellowstone and Gran…
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