LIVING AND WORKING WITH WOLVES
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➤ Working Circle
Working Circle is dedicated to ensuring wolves, livestock, and people can successfully coexist and thrive on shared lands long-term. We envision resilient and economically viable ranch operations, managed by ranch families, that support healthy and ecologically diverse wild-working landscapes across the west.
➤ Western Landowners Alliance
The Western Landowners Alliance advances policies and practices that sustain working lands, connected landscapes, and native species.
➤ Defenders of Wildlife
Defenders of Wildlife is the premier U.S.-based national conservation organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of imperiled species and their habitats in North America.
➤ People and Carnivores
The mission of People and Carnivores is to protect, connect, and restore large carnivores and their populations in the Northern Rocky Mountains by working with the region’s people to prevent human-carnivore conflicts. Their vision is an American West with thriving wildlife and wild carnivore populations as well as communities wishing to and prepared to live alongside carnivores. We envision that large carnivores are present in and around core habitat areas and disperse and connect with others, expanding further into historic range. Carnivore coexistence is a shared goal, and people and communities participate in conflict prevention solutions, protecting both people and carnivores.
➤ International Wildlife Coexistence Network
The IWCN shares informational resources and provides widespread support for all who seek to peacefully resolve conflicts with wildlife. Their interdisciplinary teams include scientists, agricultural managers, researchers, ethicists, economists, government specialists, educators, indigenous leaders, technical engineers and more who are helping to pioneer new ways to live with wildlife. They connect our experts with communities that need help transforming wildlife conflicts into non-violent sustainable solutions.
➤ Blackfoot Challenge
The mission of the Blackfoot Challenge is to coordinate efforts to conserve and enhance the natural resources and rural way of life in the Blackfoot watershed for present and future generations. We bring people together, facilitate respectful conversations and the exchange of information, keep the focus on shared values, and build trust We coordinate responses to community needs and find homegrown solutions that stand the test of time. The hard work takes place in our community-led committees.
➤ Centennial Valley Association
The Centennial Valley in southwest Montana is one of the last remaining intact and relatively undeveloped landscapes of the West, and is home to many species of iconic wildlife such as grizzly bears, wolves, moose, elk, trumpeter swans, Arctic grayling, and the Greater sage-grouse. The Centennial Valley expands the Greater Yellowstone wildlife corridor, linking Yellowstone to the Salmon-Selway Wilderness and Crown of the Continent. There are a variety of native habitats on the landscape, including Montane sagebrush steppe, wetlands, and grasslands, with only a handful of folks that live and work in the valley. The Centennial Valley Association strives to preserve traditional ranching as a way of life in the Centennial Valley, and to maintain quality open space, wildlife habitat, water quality, and wildlife migration corridors as they exist today for future generations.
➤ Tom Miner Basin Association
The Tom Miner Basin functions is a unique, biologically productive area for livestock, and a diverse and highly desirable habitat for multiple species of wildlife (grizzly bears, wolves, moose, and elk, to name a few) and an established recreational area for many hikers, hunters, and tourists. Given the varied ways the Basin is shared, the need for a holistic approach and proactive management on the range is clear and evident. They are supporting healthy and productive rangeland, thriving and diverse wildlife populations, prosperous ranching businesses, and a wild, healthy, working landscape to share with the public and leave better than how we found it and for generations to come.
Photo Credit: Working Circle