Responding to Challenges Across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem - World Heritage Webinar

The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) is unique in having 15 million acres of federal lands that are geographically contiguous, ecologically interdependent and unalterably linked. This acreage is managed by four federal agencies the National Park Service, US Forest Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management. This webinar showcases the challenges the National Park Service encounters in land management and its strategy to integrate key resource issues across boundaries and through partnerships.

Superintendent Cam Sholly will moderate the webinar and provide an overview of the challenges facing the park. Senior Wildlife Biologist Doug Smith will share conservation success stories including the wolf reintroduction and protecting grizzly bears and cougars in Yellowstone. Superintendent Sholly will also discuss the impacts of climate change and increased visitation and how the park is preparing to mark its 150th anniversary in 2022.

Cameron (Cam) Sholly, Superintendant, Yellowstone National Park

Douglas W. Smith, PhD, Senior Wildlife Biologist, Yellowstone National Park