Jodi Hilty

Dr. Jodi Hilty, an expert on wildlife corridors, is President and Chief Scientist at Yellowstone to Yukon, an organization with the mission to preserve wildlife corridors ranging through the Rocky Mountains from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem north to the northern reaches of Alberta and British Columbia. A former resident of Bozeman, Jodi now lives in Canmore, Alberta where she supervises a staff of 24 Conservation Scientists, Program Coordinators, Managers and Associates, Policy Planning Coordinators and other staff. A prolific researcher and writer on topics related to large landscape conservation, connectivity and climate change, Jodi is co-editor of Safe Passages, a book about highway wildlife collisions, and more recently of Climate and Conservation, a volume about landscape and seascape science planning and action. She currently serves on the Board of the Smith Fellowship and as Deputy Chair of the IUCN Connectivity Committee. In this interview, Jody talks about what Y2Y is doing to provide biological connectivity along the crest of the Rocky Mountains in both the U.S. and Canada.

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