Catchword: Y2Y

Filed under: English, Environment, Abbreviation

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: The long-range agenda behind the environmentalist’s effort to move grizzlies into the Selway-Bitterroot ecosystem is a part of a movement to develop a corridor that could link populations of bears all the way from Alaska to the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. The idea has been coined Y2Y (Yukon to Yellowstone.) The Y2Y movement is 140 environmental groups who propose a series of wildlife corridors to link populations of bear, wolves, and other large predators all the way from Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming to Canada’s Yukon Territory on the border of Alaska. The entire area encompasses almost 500,000 square miles. Using dedicated, animals-only overpasses and underpasses.

Article or document title:
“Greater Yellowstone; A Grizzly Home” (URL)

Author:
Daryl L. Hunter

Article, document, publication, web site:
New West

Publishing location:
Missoula, Montana

Date of publication:
Oct. 6, 2006

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