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About Us
Save the Yellowstone Grizzly works to maintain the grizzly’s status as a federally listed threatened species, promote the use of climate change science, facilitate habitat connectivity, bring current science to outdated state and federal bear management policies, and collaborate on educational efforts that result in bear-friendly communities all while recognizing that Indigenous wisdom should lead the way in shaping our collective relationship with the grizzly and its homelands.
Our History
Save the Yellowstone Grizzly was founded in 2016 in response to attempts by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to remove Endangered Species Act protections for grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, a campaign that was won two years later in federal court.
Since then, the organization has expanded its mission to fight for all grizzly bears in the lower 48 states, through education, advocacy and legal action.
Board of Trustees
Rick Bass
Rick is a founder and the interim executive director of the Yaak Valley Forest Council. He is the author of over 30 books of environmental essays, novels and short fiction including The Lost Grizzlies, Brown Dog of the Yaak, The Lives of Rocks and Winter: Notes from Montana. He has received O. Henry Awards, numerous Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Marc Beaudin
Secretary
A former Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Foundation artist-in-residence, Marc is a poet, theatre artist and co-owner of Elk River Books and co-founder of Elk River Arts & Lectures in Livingston, Montana. He is the author of Life List: Poems, the hitchhiking memoir Vagabond Song, and the jazz/poetry album From Coltrane to Coal Train: An Eco-Jazz Suite. The co-editor of Unearthing Paradise: Montana Writers in Defense of Greater Yellowstone, his work has been widely anthologized in publications dedicated to environmental and social justice.
Lance Craighead
Lance is the executive director of the Craighead Institute. He is the author of Bears of the World, and co-editor of Conservation Planning: Shaping the Future. He received an M.S. in wildlife ecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in biological sciences from Montana State University, studying grizzly bear genetics in the Alaskan arctic. He is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the World Committee on Protected Areas, the Society for Conservation Biology, and the Society for Conservation GIS.
Dan Sullivan
Treasurer
Dan is a board advisor for Park County Environmental Council and has been a fierce advocate for wilderness all his life. He has spent decades exploring and protecting the backcountry in and around Glacier and Yellowstone national parks. He has called Livingston, Montana, home for nearly 30 years.
Terry Tempest Williams
Terry is a naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, demonstrating how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. She is the author of numerous books including Erosion: Essays of Undoing, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds. She has received numerous literary and conservation awards, as well as Lannan and Guggenheim Fellowships.
Chuck Watson
Chuck, the owner of Watson Law in Bozeman, is a founding member and former president of the Montana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is a full fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, served as chairman of the Criminal Section of the Montana State Bar, and was named a “top 100 trial lawyer” by the American Trial Lawyers Association. He is a recipient of the NAACP’s Atticus Finch Criminal Justice Award for his pro bono work.
Voices for Save the Yellowstone Grizzly
“She might be shot so her head may be mounted on a wall…many hearts would break. I know mine would.”
“Without bears, Yellowstone is not Yellowstone. It’s a zoo.”
“Save the bear, save the place.”