Building successful strategies for conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

This year’s symposium will focus on living in coexistence with wildlife and each other while sustaining a healthy future for all in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). The day-long event will examine the broad issues, policies, and science of the GYE using Grand Strategy, a set of principles and behavior that advances shared interests.

Why do this? Few regions have the GYE’s diversity of landscapes and wildlife, while offering a high standard of living for people. Yet monumental changes are underway, and an environmentally sound future is at stake. An abundance of citizens, agencies, and NGOs are striving to meet emergent challenges. But well-intentioned, competing interests and overlapping jurisdictions have created a shortfall of individual efforts that are inadequate to address the large task ahead. We need nothing less than a Grand Strategy that melds goals, values, and action.

For the past 35 years, NRCC has focused resources, expertise, and attention on wildlife and conservation. Please join us at this year’s symposium to “focus on the forest, not just the trees”.