Workshop: Wildlife movement and migration in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Need and opportunity

The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem harbors some of the most diverse and abundant wide-ranging large mammals in North America. These wildlife move across broad landscapes that span not only national parks, wilderness areas, and multiple-use public lands, but also private and tribal lands where many landowners and managers are interested in partnering to advance land and wildlife conservation. There is a recognized need to improve communication and coordination with private and tribal partners to support their  conservation goals. Therefore, in November 2023, the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee (GYCC) and Beyond Yellowstone Living Lab convened a workshop to increase awareness and effectiveness of the unprecedented recent influx of funding and coordination opportunities available to support conservation of private and tribal lands.

Where we are

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Team members

Arthur Middleton

Arthur is an associate professor in the Department of Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley and also acts as the Senior Advisor on Wildlife Conservation for the US Department of Agriculture. He leads a variety of interdisciplinary research efforts on wide-ranging wildlife and large-landscape conservation, and works actively to ensure positive outcomes of this work for communities.

Kristin Barker

Kristin serves as the research coordinator for the Beyond Yellowstone Living Lab. Her research primarily focuses on migration ecology, predator-prey dynamics, and anthropogenic influences on animal behavior. She’s spent most of the last two decades living and working in the Rocky Mountains, hiking, camping, biking, skiing, paddling, hunting, and doing lots of fieldwork.

Jerod Merkle

Jerod is an assistant professor and the Knobloch professor of migration ecology and conservation at University of Wyoming. Jerod’s research program is twofold. He and his team study the intricacies of the movement and migration of big game, and develop data products and tools to facilitate their conservation and management.

Partners

Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee