Reconnect the Rockies for Wildlife

A grizzly bear cannot survive if the wild places it depends on are cut apart.

Neither can an elk, wolf, wolverine, lynx, or pronghorn.

They need real, connected habitat—and across the Rocky Mountains, highways, development, fences, and other barriers are cutting animals off from the places they need to feed, migrate, find mates, and simply survive.

Even Yellowstone is not enough if the land around it becomes a maze of deadly roads and isolated habitat.

Conservationists are working to reconnect an extraordinary 2,100-mile wildlife corridor stretching from Yellowstone National Park to Canada’s Yukon Territory. More than 200 wildlife crossings have already been built across the region.

But enormous gaps remain.

Animals are still being struck and killed on highways. Others refuse to cross busy roads at all, leaving populations trapped and vulnerable.

Congress can help change that.

The bipartisan Wildlife Corridors and Habitat Connectivity Conservation Act would create a National Wildlife Corridor System, improve the mapping of migration routes, and help federal agencies, Tribal nations, states, communities, conservation groups, and willing landowners protect the connections wildlife depend on.

It would also support overpasses, underpasses such as the one pictured, fencing, and other road-safety projects that save animals’ lives and reduce dangerous collisions for drivers.

This is not about locking people out of the West.

It is about making sure wildlife are not locked into shrinking islands of habitat.

Once a migration route is paved over or developed, it may be lost forever. Congress must act before more irreplaceable connections disappear.

Please sign the petition urging Congress to pass and fully fund the Wildlife Corridors and Habitat Connectivity Conservation Act.

The petition to Congress reads: Pass and fully fund the Wildlife Corridors and Habitat Connectivity Conservation Act. Create a National Wildlife Corridor System, protect crucial migration routes, support voluntary conservation partnerships, and build wildlife crossings where roads divide habitat. America’s wild animals need room to roam—not a patchwork of isolated refuges surrounded by deadly barriers.

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Sources:

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/how-to-stitch-a-massive-wildlife-corridor-through-the-rocky-mountains/

https://montanafreepress.org/2022/01/04/montana-wildlife-crossings-past-and-future/