Protecting Vital Ground
Operating as a land trust, the mission of The Vital Ground Foundation is to protect and restore North America’s grizzly bear populations by conserving wildlife habitat. By protecting grizzly habitat we are preserving our wild heritage & entire plant and animal communities in the wildest, most scenic places left on the continent.
The Legacy of Bart the Bear
Where The Grizzly Can Walk featuring Brad Pitt
Bart the Bear 2 and Honey Bump in Training
The Vital Ground Foundation narrated by Sir Anthony Hopkins
Vital Ground
With the mighty grizzly bear as its compass, Vital Ground works to reconnect fragmented landscapes in the U.S. and Canada critical to wildlife movement and biodiversity. Because the grizzly’s range covers several hundred square miles—from alpine meadows to valley bottoms—protecting and expanding habitat and migration corridors important to the Great Bear benefits entire animal and plant communities in the wildest, yet most imperiled places left on the continent.
Along with its partners, Vital Ground in presently involved in the most extensive, large-landscape grizzly bear conservation effort in the world. Through this international effort, we will be working toward reconnecting the six great, now isolated, ecosystems of the northern Rockies region—Northern Continental Divide, Greater Yellowstone, Selkirk, Purcell-Cabinet-Yaak, Selway-Bitterroot, and North Cascades.
Even now grizzly bears are appearing in areas where they haven’t been seen for decades, a sure sign that conservation efforts are working … working because of the strength of connections: between landscapes and wildlife communities; between public and private lands; between conservationists and landowners; between the needs of nature and the spirit of humans … and between your generosity and the work it allows us to do.
“Your contribution today will help keep these truths alive!”
