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Birch Creek
Rewilding Birch Creek
Birch Creek Valley is the keystone landscape connecting Yellowstone National Park and the Central Idaho Wilderness Areas.
These two large areas have federal land and wildlife protections. They are connected by a wildlife travel and genetic “highway” (corridor) that is mostly comprised of public lands, but without some of the same federal protections.
Our Birch Creek project is a private land refuge along this wildlife travel and genetic “highway”(corridor). These core areas and corridor are the first extension of the Yellowstone to Yukon wildlife corridor, commonly referred to as the “Y2Y” wildlife corridor.
Ensuring local people and communities benefit economically and culturally by
the functionality of natural processes on the landscape, is a pillar of the Birch Creek project.
Such efforts include development of sustainable tourism, partnering with local entrepreneurs and developing and offering nature-based activities.
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Mission
We seek to actively foster and restore the functionality of ecological processes and systems on a landscape that connects Yellowstone National Park to the Central Idaho Wilderness Areas.
Our goal is to promote a "Rewilding Habitat", a landscape with natural process functionality including wild horses and all native wildlife.
We will lead groundbreaking scientific research and rewilding education and build local businesses and tourism.
Objectives
1. Reconnect the functionality of the Wildlife Corridor between the Yellowstone Ecosystem and Central Idaho.
2. Restore the functionality of the now diminished biotic community in the region by replacing non-native herbivores with those that evolved with the native flora of the region.
3. Foster a local economically stable enterprise.
4. Promote ecological science that is equitable and just and recognizes the contributions and rights of Native Americans in the region.
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