Welcome to the Vital Ground Videos page! Here see videos about our projects, ambassadors and endorsements by American movie actors Brad Pitt, Sam Elliott, Anthony Hopkins, Jeff Bridges and Jack Hanna. If the video you’re looking for is not on the page, here see our complete play list on Vital Ground’s YouTube channel!
Black Bear or Grizzly? Can You Tell? (Bear ID Quiz) | Vital Ground Foundation
Can you tell a black bear from a grizzly? Test your bear ID skills with real footage from our archives, then see how you did.
🐻 Full guide with photos, tracks, ...and safety tips: https://www.vitalground.org/grizzly-bear-vs-black-bear-how-to-tell-the-difference/
In this video, we show clips of wild bears filmed across the Rocky Mountains. Pause and make your guess before each reveal. Here’s a hint: color won’t help you, since black bears can be brown, cinnamon, or blond. Look at the shoulders, face shape, and ears instead.
Tell us in the comments how many you got right!
🔔 Subscribe for more wildlife footage and bear safety tips: @ForTheGrizzly
The Vital Ground Foundation is a land trust that conserves and connects habitat for grizzly bears and other wildlife. We also team up with communities to prevent conflicts between bears and people. Learn more about our work at https://www.vitalground.org/
Filmed from a safe distance. Never approach wild bears.
#BearIdentification #GrizzlyBear #BlackBearShow More
Black Bear or Grizzly? Can You Tell? (Bear ID Quiz) | Vital Ground Foundation
Can you tell a black bear from a grizzly? Test your bear ID skills ...
Can you tell a black bear from a grizzly? Test your bear ID skills with real footage from our archives, then see how you did.
🐻 Full guide with photos, tracks, ...and safety tips: https://www.vitalground.org/grizzly-bear-vs-black-bear-how-to-tell-the-difference/
In this video, we show clips of wild bears filmed across the Rocky Mountains. Pause and make your guess before each reveal. Here’s a hint: color won’t help you, since black bears can be brown, cinnamon, or blond. Look at the shoulders, face shape, and ears instead.
Tell us in the comments how many you got right!
🔔 Subscribe for more wildlife footage and bear safety tips: @ForTheGrizzly
The Vital Ground Foundation is a land trust that conserves and connects habitat for grizzly bears and other wildlife. We also team up with communities to prevent conflicts between bears and people. Learn more about our work at https://www.vitalground.org/
Filmed from a safe distance. Never approach wild bears.
#BearIdentification #GrizzlyBear #BlackBearShow More
Hillary Rosner ROAM Missoula Book Event Livestream 5/27
Join us for a timely and inspiring evening with award-winning science ...
Join us for a timely and inspiring evening with award-winning science journalist Hillary Rosner as she presents her powerful new book, Roam: Wild Animals and the Race to Repair Our ...Fractured World.
This special event featured a lively conversation between Rosner and environmental philosopher and University of Montana professor Christopher J. Preston, followed by an audience Q&A and discussion with local conservation experts, including Doug Chadwick, Vital Ground Trustee and author of Four Fifths a Grizzly: A New Perspective on Nature that Might Just Save Us All. Presented in partnership with the Center for Large Landscape Conservation and the Vital Ground Foundation, the evening explored how global ideas about wildlife connectivity are playing out right here in Montana.
At the heart of the conversation is Rosner's powerful new book, which tackles one of the most urgent conservation challenges of our time: habitat fragmentation. As roads, fences, and development divide once-connected landscapes, wildlife increasingly struggles to move freely—a challenge made even more critical by climate change. In Roam, Rosner brings this issue to life through vivid storytelling and on-the-ground reporting, highlighting the people and projects working to reconnect ecosystems and restore wildlife movement across the globe.
But this event goes beyond the page. It's a chance to engage directly with the ideas shaping the future of conservation in the Northern Rockies and beyond. From wildlife crossings to landscape-scale collaboration, the discussion will offer both urgency and optimism—showing how reconnecting habitat can benefit not only wildlife, but entire ecosystems and human communities as well.
Whether you're deeply involved in conservation or simply curious about how we can better coexist with the natural world, this promises to be an engaging, thought-provoking evening—and a rare opportunity to hear directly from one of today's leading voices in environmental storytellingShow More
Vital Ground - 2025 Trail Cam Footage Compilation
2025 was a remarkable year for wildlife at Vital Ground Foundation. ...
Vital Ground: A Legacy of Leadership in Grizzly Bear Conservation
A quick look at the legacy and impact of the Vital Ground Foundation, ...
A quick look at the legacy and impact of the Vital Ground Foundation, which has helped protect and restore over 1 million acres of grizzly bear habitat since its founding ...in 1990 by Doug and Lynne Seus, trainers of the famous grizzly bear actor Bart the Bear. (Bart was born in captivity, but through Vital Ground became a conservation ambassador for the recovery of wild grizzlies in the Lower 48 and beyond.)
Learn more and help protect key habitat today at vitalground.org
Video by Eric Ian, with additional footage by Bob Landis Wildlife Films.Show More
Diane Boyd: A Woman Among Wolves
Hear renowned Montana wolf biologist Diane Boyd discuss the history ...
Hear renowned Montana wolf biologist Diane Boyd discuss the history and current state of wolf and grizzly bear conservation and read selections from her new memoir, "A Woman Among Wolves: ...My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery."
Vital Ground was delighted to host this webinar and Q&A with Diane as part of our series of 35th Anniversary events celebrating the organization's collective conservation impact since 1990. When Doug and Lynne Seus founded Vital Ground, wolves had not yet been reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park and Diane was a leading field researcher of the only wolves in the Northern Rockies, those that had naturally ventured south from Canada and established packs in the North Fork of the Flathead Valley and surrounding wildlands in and around Glacier National Park.
"A Woman Among Wolves" tells the story of those early decades of wolf research and recovery in Montana up to the present day. Both wolves and grizzlies have made significant strides in recovery but face many ongoing hurdles that Vital Ground's habitat protection and conflict prevention efforts help address.
Learn more about the book and order a copy while supporting Vital Ground's work for wildlife via our online store: https://www.vitalground.org/product/a-woman-among-wolves/Show More
Lynne Seus: The Grizzlies and Us
As a part of Vital Ground's 35th Anniversary, co-founder Lynne Seus ...
As a part of Vital Ground's 35th Anniversary, co-founder Lynne Seus joined Vital Ground staff for a special webinar on October 22, 2025, featuring readings from Lynne's memoir, The Grizzlies ...and Us, and a Q&A covering everything from the details of Bart the Bear's training regimen to updates on Bart's successors, current Vital Ground ambassador bears Tank and Honey Bump.
Thanks to Lynne for sharing her stories and to all who joined for the evening and support Vital Ground's habitat protection efforts! You can order The Grizzlies and Us and support wildlife conservation via Vital Ground's Bear Mart: vitalground.org/shopShow More
Vital Ground - 35 Years of Conservation (1990-2025)
Follow the journey of the Vital Ground Foundation, from co-founders ...
Follow the journey of the Vital Ground Foundation, from co-founders Doug and Lynne Seus' initial desire to help wild grizzlies in 1990 to becoming a land trust helping protect and ...enhance more than 1 million acres of grizzly bear habitat in the Northern Rockies and beyond.
Directed by Eric Ian, with additional footage courtesy of Bob Landis Wildlife Films. Created for Vital Ground's 35th Anniversary in 2025, featuring Board Chair Kelly Johnson and Founding Board Member Doug Chadwick.
Learn more and get involved at http://www.vitalground.org.Show More
Vital Ground - 2024 Trail Cam Compilation
Check out the recent highlights from Vital Ground trail cameras at ...
Check out the recent highlights from Vital Ground trail cameras at some of our conservation sites in Northwest Montana. From moose and wolves to Canada lynx and grizzlies, when we ...say your support is protecting and connecting habitat for all things wild, this is what we mean! Learn more and get involved at vitalground.org.
Trail cameras maintained by Randy Beacham (Photo site: https://randybeacham.smugmug.com/).Show More
Habitat Restoration in Northwest Montana
Look behind the scenes at a wildlife habitat restoration project. At ...
Look behind the scenes at a wildlife habitat restoration project. At Vital Ground's Broadie Habitat Preserve in Montana's Yaak Valley, major restoration work is underway to return this conserved area ...to a more wildlife-friendly state after decades of management for other uses. From planting diverse native shrubs to re-channeling a tributary creek, Vital Ground's partnership with @riverdesigngroup2841 will bring benefits to grizzly bears, wolves, moose, elk, native fish and many more species in one of North America's richest wildlife communities.
Video by Eric Ian, with additional footage provided by Bob Landis Wildlife Films.Show More
