What makes the Yellowstone to Yukon region so special?
The Yellowstone to Yukon region represents the largest remaining intact mountain ecosystem on earth. It contains some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world and holds a wide variety of wildlife, habitats and human communities and cultures. This region provides the best remaining habitat for North America’s threatened or sensitive species including grizzly bears, wolves, wolverines, lynx and native fish populations. The vast lands of the Yellowstone to Yukon region will also give animal and plant species some of the space and resources they need to adapt to changing climate conditions. It is one of the few places left in the world with the geographic variety and biological diversity to help organisms adapt to a change of this magnitude. The earth’s other mountain ecosystems such as the Himalayas, the Andes and the Alps have a long history of human occupation and cultivation, which has irreversibly altered the natural processes of those mountain ecosystems. As a result, many of
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