When grizzly bear populations are healthy, so are many of the other species that share the landscape as well. Keeping them connected matters, says Y2Y's senior U.S. program co-ordinator, Nick Clarke in a recent guest column in the Missoulian. "Communities in the Bow Valley are leaders in human-wildlife coexistence – other mountain towns in western North America look to Canmore and Banff for the best examples of how to live with wildlife," says Dr. Hilary Young, Y2Y's senior Alberta program manager. "These development proposals fall short of what wildlife and people need."