Welcome to the
Gallatin Wildlife
Association
Website
Welcome - to the Gallatin Wildlife Association website.
We certainly hope you become more knowledgeable about GWA as you wander through the pages of our website. We are a small, but vocal non-profit organization located in Bozeman, Montana advocating for wildlife, their respective habitat, and migration corridors across southwestern Montana, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and the northern Rocky Mountains. We advocate for wildlife and fisheries by utilizing science and the law. GWA, founded in 1976, has long recognized the intense pressures on our wildlife from habitat loss and climate change, and we advocate for science-based management of public lands for diverse public values, including but not limited to hunting and angling.
To learn more about GWA, who we are, and what we've done: click here
Give Big - Thank you to All of those who donated to GWA during Give Big, including the Anonymous Donors!
In Remembrance and in Honor of the female wolf of Daniel, Wyoming
No animal or living creature should have to endure the pain and suffering that this wolf had to experience, but the truth be told, throughout the history of mankind, we have inflicted this and much worse on so many other individual animals and species. The letter below was sent to several agencies head in Washington D.C. and Regional offices in Denver as well as the Governor's office in Wyoming and other officials.
As far as we can tell, Secretary Deb Haaland and/or USFWS Director Martha Williams has not commented on this matter! That is unacceptable!
What is the Involvement of GWA over the Killing?
- GWA has written the Secretary of Interior and many others in regards to this incident.
2. GWA is involved in the litigation of the USFWS over the decision not to relist the gray wolf in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.
What Can You Do?
- There are many petitions online if you look, many proposing different forms of change and justice for the wolf. The ones on Change.Org are easy to find. GWA does not endorse any one petition over the other as we have no control or say as to which would be more instrumental, if any, in making the necessary changes.
Warning, all will be asking for donations! We have listed two petitions here, but again we have no control over content or effectiveness.
2. You can be our guest and write DOI Secretary Deb Haaland, USFWS Director Martha Williams, and/or the Governor of Wyoming and the Director of Wyoming Game and Fish. It appears that no action has been taken yet, although an investigation is taking place. Perhaps more voices will make a difference.
We urge all people to be respectful in their communications!
- Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland
https://www.doi.gov/contact-us#no-back
Deb Haaland,
Office of the Secretary of the Interior
Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington D.C. 20240
2. Director Fish and Wildlife Service – Martha Williams,
https://www.fws.gov/contact-us
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240
3. Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon
https://governor.wyo.gov/contact/governor
State Capitol
200 West 24th Street
Cheyenne, WY 82002
4. Wyoming Director of Game and Fish - Brian Nesvick
https://wgfd.wyo.gov/contact-us
Wyoming Game & Fish Department
Department Headquarters
5400 Bishop Blvd
Cheyenne, WY 82006
Register your Voice in Wildlife Protection:
Take this Survey -
GWA has joined forces with the Buffalo Field Campaign to support wildlife infrastructure at the Madison River Crossing at U.S. Hwy 191 south of West Yellowstone. The number of wildlife deaths and injury from wildlife/vehicle collisions (WVC)s has increased greatly over recent years. Wildlife are on the move and the crossing of mobile wildlife and vehicle traffic are becoming more and more problematic at this natural wildlife corridor, threatening the lives and property of our society in the process.
We're trying to judge and gain support from the local residents and the general public of this project, search out the science, and gain the necessary financing. We need all hands on deck as we work with fellow NGOs in the region trying to make progress in the mitigation of WVCs.
Please take this brief poll by either using the QR code or the link below and answer the few questions on this potential and future project. More information on our coalition, a coalition entitled the West Yellowstone Wildlife Crossing Coalition, can be found here.
Here is the link if you prefer.
Montanans for Safe
Wildlife Protection: MSWP
Most of you should know, GWA has been involved with and are supporters of MSWP for several years now. Being as one representative on the MSWP Steering Committee, we try to propagate the energy and resources for wildlife infrastructure across the state of Montana.
Below is their most recent website:
Montanans for Safe Wildlife Passage
There is much to do in this realm of establishing wildlife connectivity across highways and railways, etc. Please help out in any way you are able.
Climate Forest
Coalition:
Another alliance that GWA is participating in is that of the Climate Forest Coalition, an organization of likeminded NGOs across the country that are trying to change forest policy. We're trying to promote policies of protecting mature and old-growth forests in order to preserve biodiversity, ecological integrity and to use our forests as a mitigative approach fighting climate change by carbon sequestration. Here is their link:
https://www.climate-forests.org/
There is much material here for references and they have already testified before Congress.
We urge all members to follow this group and follow us as we try to incorporate their strategy into ours as appropriate.
30 by 30:
What's it mean to you?
By the way, we received notification and acknowledgement from the U.S. Forest Service of our proposal. That was goal one - to inform them of the importance of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and to not forget the importance of the biodiversity and the potential of mitigating effects of climate change found in the region.
On January 27, 2021 President Biden signed Executive Order 14008, an order entitled “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad”. Within that order, President Biden has committed his administration (in Section 216) to a conservation goal of protecting 30 percent of land and 30 percent of ocean waters by 2030. According to Ryan Richards’ article: “Measuring Conservation Progress in North America” published in Center for American Progress, currently 12% of lands are protected, and 26% of ocean waters. Scientist believe that 30% is what’s necessary to fight climate change and protect species from extinction. Protected lands increase resilience to the impacts of climate change and better conserve the biodiversity of our lands.
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In the recent news, Governor Gianforte has told the Biden Administration they did not want to participate in the Admins proposal to help secure lands and waters to the objective goal of this program. See link here!
Montana Free Press - Amanda Eggert
This is why wildlife
connectivity is so important.
View this link and see how
this grizzly bear is wanting
to cross I-90.
GWA's Facebook page is Going Strong!
Check us out -
Thanks to Angelo Roman for managing our Facebook page.
GWA's Podcast on KGVM -
Wildlife and Wilderness -
take a listen!
After Christmas of last year (Dec. 30, 2020) Clint Nagel of GWA was fortunate enough to be interviewed by J. Shell, host of the program Wilderness and Wildlife on KGVM, 95.9 on the radio dial.
Wilderness and Wildlife, presented by the Gallatin Wildlife Association, features discussions of issues involving the wildlife of southwestern Montana, and the wilderness habitat that makes this area appealing to adventurous people from around the country. You'll hear interviews with wildlife experts and naturalists reporting on species they have studied, which are threatened by the pressures of a rapidly growing populace in the Greater Yellowstone Region.
For other shows presented, simply click the following.
The Gallatin Wildlife Association also produces the short Wildlife Capsules.
Thanks to John Shellenberger for taking the initiative to establish this mechanism of outreach for GWA.
To Contact Us, either contact us directly using this address or using the link button below.
Contact Details:
Gallatin Wildlife Association
P.O. Box 5317, Bozeman, MT 59717
“To restore stability to our planet, therefore, we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing we have removed. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. We must rewild the world!”―David Attenborough