The story of how our community came together pass the Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act, safeguarding public lands in north of Yellowstone National Park from industrial scale gold mining.
Read MoreGrowth is inevitable. It’s our responsibility to protect the rural character of our community, open space, the Yellowstone River and our access to public lands. We have to ensure that the next generation of Park County kids can afford to come home.
Read MoreConflict over public access in the Crazy Mountains has been a continual problem. Due to the checkerboard land ownership, many of the trails cross several miles of private land. In recent years, tensions between landowners, public land access advocates, and the Forest Service have running particularly high.
Read MorePCEC works to safeguard wildlands and wildlife habitat from fragmentation and development. We work to protect public lands because an intact northern Yellowstone ecosystem provides clean cold water at our headwater streams and protects wildlife habitat and corridors.
Read MorePCEC in the news: an article from the Billings Gazette covering the beginning our successful campaign to have several controversial BLM oil and gas leases next door to Livingston be withdrawn from auction.
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