Our Work
Our projects center around 4 research themes
Private land & community conservation
Maximizing landowner value of private properties
Exploring socio-ecological aspects of conservation
Ecosystem health
& population dynamics
Investigating drivers of population and ecosystem dynamics including disease, invasive species, and water quality
Barriers and
landscape
connectivity
Evaluating effects of fences, habitat fragmentation, human population growth, & anthropogenic development
Impacts of wildlife and conservation
Assessing the value of conservation actions and their effects
Quantifying & qualifying wildlife value
Developing new tools to de-risk wildlife occupancy on private lands
Along with our partners at the Property and Environment Research Center, we wrote a scientific paper to show conservation practitioners how important it is to consider both economic and risk management factors in wildlife conservation.
Supporting the Wyoming-USDA Big Game Pilot Program
This research is supporting the Pilot Program by surveying landowners in priority areas to understand their experiences with big game and interest in participating in different voluntary conservation efforts.
Workshop: Wildlife movement and migration in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Alongside the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee, the Beyond Yellowstone Living Lab co-hosted a workshop to help increase awareness and effectiveness of unprecedented new opportunities to conserve lands important for migratory animals like pronghorn, deer, and elk.
Partners
We collaborate closely with the University of Wyoming and Wyoming Fish and Game Department. Our Beyond Yellowstone research team is hosted by the Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship at the University of California, Berkeley. Learn about our UC Berkeley partners here. See a full list of all partnerships & collaborators on the “Our Team” page.
