Conservation Partners
Vital Ground supports programs that prevent conflicts between bears and people. We also chip in on habitat protection projects by like-minded conservation groups.
Conservation Partners Grant Program »
Featured Conflict Prevention Projects
Photo: Kevin Rhoades
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
Through a new electric fencing program, we're teaming up with tribal officers to curb conflicts in the Mission Valley.
Big Hole Watershed Committee
Bringing a seasoned range rider to help the Big Hole Valley, where grizzlies are reclaiming historic range.
Photo: Jim Cole
People and Carnivores
Equipping vacationers in the Madison Valley to avoid run-ins with Yellowstone’s expanding grizzly population.
Blackfoot Challenge
Supporting the West's longest-running Range Rider program, for the benefit of wildlife and people alike.
Southwest Montana Bear Education
Preventing conflicts through education and technology as grizzlies expand west from Greater Yellowstone.
Photo: Pati Sowka
Swan Valley Bear Resources
Keeping bears away from the garbage, gardens and livestock of Montana's scenic Swan Valley.
North Cascades Grizzly Education
Helping equip Washingtonians with the truth about grizzlies and their potential return to the North Cascades.
City of Troy, Montana
Keeping bears in the woods and out of the garbage in the heart of the Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystem.
Other Conservation Partner Projects
in Grizzly Recovery Ecosystems
Vital Ground works to protect and restore habitat for wild grizzly populations in ecosystems where the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated grizzly bear recovery zones and where state wildlife management agencies have placed an emphasis on conserving the species.
Featured Habitat Partner Projects
Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust
Conserving critical salmon and brown bear habitat in Alaska's threatened Bristol Bay Watershed.
Luxor Linkage — The Nature Conservancy of Canada
Helping connect habitat in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia, with big benefits south of the border too.
National Wildlife Federation
Retiring conflict-prone grazing leases in Greater Yellowstone—for bears, wolves, livestock and ranchers alike.
Darkwoods Project — The Nature Conservancy of Canada
Canada's largest private-land conservation project, conserving 212 square miles of former timberlands.