It took 46 attempts for Lingenpolter, a young male grizzly bear, to safely cross Interstate 90 highway in Montana, an east-west transcontinental freeway and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States.
A radio collar used to track a young female wolf in Banff National Park around two decades ago was recently discovered in Montana nearly 500 kilometres away.
It’s one thing to mount a decades-long conservation campaign on a continental scale like the Yellowstone to Yukon.
It’s another to prove anything about it worked.
A recently published paper by Conservation Science and Practice shows evidence that protecting and connecting the mountains from Yellowstone in Wyoming to the…