Photo by Jamie Scarrow
With the grizzly bear as its compass, Vital Ground works to reconnect fragmented landscapes in the U.S. and Canada critical to wildlife movement and biodiversity. Because the grizzly's range covers several hundred square miles—from alpine meadows to valley bottoms—protecting and expanding habitat and migration corridors important to the Great Bear benefits entire animal and plant communities in the wildest, yet most imperiled places left on the continent. Since its founding in 1990, Vital Ground has helped to protect and enhance more than 604,000 acres of wildlife habitat in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Alaska, and British Columbia.

 

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Bonners Ferry, Idaho – The Vital Ground Foundation has closed two conservation easements totaling 110 acres in northern Idaho. The contiguous 80-acre and 30-acre properties are located in Boundary County, near the Idaho/Montana border.

Sam and Carolyn Testa donated the conservation easements to Vital Ground in order to protect unique wetlands, timber and wildlife habitat in the Curley Creek Valley.

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Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Bear Update - May 13, 2009 
Grizzlies spotted south-May 8, 2009 New plan to save Selkirk-Cabinet grizzlies-May 6, 2009 
It's Time to Put the Great Bear Back on the Endangered Species List-May 6, 2009
Olympic Gold Medalist Cael Sanderson endorses the work of Vital Ground-April 29, 2009 
Count on a grizzly feud-Results of five-year DNA inventory awaited April 20, 2009 
Researchers blame grizzly deaths on hunters, climate change April 16, 2009
Where are all the grizzly bears? April 11, 2009 
37 griz killings spark worry April 9, 2009

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Watch our new video "Grizzlies in the Wild", a photo montage is dedicated to grizzlies .... just being grizzlies. Music by Dan Grotewohl. Photographers: Philip DeManczuk, Amy Shapira, Derek Reich, Lance Schelvan, Brad Markel, and Jamie Scarrow. Produced by Kiffin Hope.

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"Where the grizzly can walk, the earth is healthy and whole."
Lynne Seus, Vital Ground co-founder

Vital Ground Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, charitable organization.
All donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.