What does Y2Y stand for?

net/) Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, which envisions linking up a large swath of land in the U.

And 24 structures in Canada's Banff National Park--which connects Yellowstone to Yukon territory farther north--have helped reduce wildlife mortality rates on highways by 80 percent.

It is also part of an ambitious, multiyear research project called Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) that is studying wildlife issues in the last tracts of wilderness in continental North America.

Indeed, the scope of regional efforts such as the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) conservation initiative, the Baja to Bering Sea (B2B) marine initiative, and the Sky Islands Wildlands Network are at the same time intriguing and exciting.

He was in the middle of a live-month trek through the Western Cordillera, promoting Y2Y, the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, a Canadian-based network of 160 organizations in North America.

The initiative describes its vision as one in which a "web of protected wildlife cores and connecting wildlife corridors has been defined and designated for the Yellowstone to Yukon region," and all land-use and development decisions within the affected region would be "based first and foremost on ecological principles.

Several of our efforts dovetail nicely with well-known large-scale reserve design initiatives: Yellowstone to Yukon Reserve Design and the Flying D Ranch The Flying D Ranch encompasses 113,000 acres (45,730 ha) in southwestern Montana.