<story><title>Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative</title><url>https://y2y.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>This is such a fine initiative. If I was President this sort of thing would be a priority (connecting all the national parks in the US). Vote for me 2024!</text></comment>
<story><title>Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative</title><url>https://y2y.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tony_cannistra</author><text>For tldr;&amp;#x2F;context, the Y2Y initiative&amp;#x27;s main goal is to establish (or, re-establish) &amp;quot;habitat connectivity&amp;quot;––the idea that organisms can move freely within an ecosystem without too much deleterious impact of human interactions.&lt;p&gt;This is incredibly ambitious, because the &amp;quot;Yukon to Yellowstone&amp;quot; region is massive –– 2,100 miles long, from northern Canada to the Western US.&lt;p&gt;One of the landmark achievements of this organization is not necessarily any particular kind of project but rather their skill in bringing together really diverse stakeholders across a massive geography to work toward this goal.&lt;p&gt;But, because &amp;quot;connectivity&amp;quot; is really the primary mission, and because roads&amp;#x2F;highways are some of the most substantial human barriers to habitat connectivity, a large majority of Y2Y projects involve making roads safer for wildlife––and people too.</text></comment>