From Your Friends at Yellowstonian
At Yellowstonian—as if it isn’t abundantly obvious already— we’re not flashy. (For evidence, look no further than the short video!) Old school and unpretentious, we haven’t channeled our modest resources into creating a website loaded with decorative bells and whistles. We generate impact by tending to the power of well-written words and hosting public events that bring people together around big ideas and thought leadership.
Our readers are smart; you aren’t afraid to learn more about serious challenges facing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, which is an American national natural treasure and bellwether for the future of wildlife in the West. As for our goal, it’s simple. Based on decades of hard-earned experience, we produce fact-based content that treats you as if you matter (because, of course, you do!) and we hold the same reverence for wildness (because it matters, too, especially now).
In two short years, Yellowstonian’s investigative reporting and other offerings have attracted a lot of leveraged attention. Our work has been featured on podcasts, at major collaborative forums, and read by decisionmakers. In January, we co-hosted a jam-packed event, Ted Turner & Friends in Bozeman that attracted more than a 1,200 people to the live event and live-stream. Our perspective was solicited at the Wallace Stegner Center public lands conference in Salt Lake City and at the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative event on democracy and conservation this week.
With good fortune, we’ve been graced by contributions from a few generous people who helped us set our course. But, for the record, we don’t have any major backers.
Seldom do we solicit your support, but we’re doing so now during the roughly 24-hour fundraising event called Give Big Gallatin Valley sponsored by the One Valley Community Foundation representing non-profits headquartered in southwest Montana. Our reach, of course, is Greater Yellowstone and West-wide. Every penny you give advances our public education mission. The window for making donations is right now (April 29) through Saturday morning (May 2) and all you have to do is ithis Give Big link.
We’re small but fearless, because only courage will enable Greater Yellowstone to remain “the cradle of American conservation” with its hallmark being wildlife. These are the issues we’ve written about, giving you our stories free and in the public interest. Wildness matters to you and it matters to us.
Thank you for helping us aim to do a lot more, including meeting a couple lofty goals in the coming months. Trust us, if you love wild country, you’ll be delighted by what we have in store with a focus area found nowhere else. Through your generosity, we just might get there.
With heartfelt gratitude,
From our small volunteer team at Yellowstonian
