Below is a list of key organizations that are dedicated to protecting the iconic species we highlighted on our Corridor Hotspots Map. Please visit their Web sites to learn more about each species, volunteer and support their critical work.
Pacific Salmon
Save Our Wild Salmon
Save Our Wild Salmon is a nationwide coalition of conservation organizations, commercial and sport fishing associations, businesses, river groups, and taxpayer and clean energy advocates working collectively to restore healthy, sustainable wild salmon to the rivers, streams and oceans of the Pacific salmon states.
Grizzly Bear
NRDC’s BioGems Defenders
To help North America's imperiled grizzly populations flourish again, NRDC and BioGems Defenders are working to protect, restore and link bear habitats stretching from Yellowstone to northern Canada.
Pronghorn
Wildlife Conservation Society
The mission of the Wildlife Conservation Society is to save wildlife and wild lands by understanding and resolving critical problems that threaten key species and large wild ecosystems around the world.
Mule Deer
Western Environmental Law Center
Currently, this corridor is under study by Aran Johnson, a wildlife biologist working for the Southern Ute Tribe. The project is a partnership between the Southern Ute Tribe, Colorado Division of Wildlife and the San Juan Public Lands Center (USFS / BLM). The Western Environmental Law Center and Colorado Wild are helping to focus efforts on gaining administrative designation of this mule deer corridor as an amendment to the San Juan Forest Plan.
Mexican Gray Wolf
WildEarth Guardians
WildEarth Guardians brings people, science, and the law together in defense of the American West’s rivers, forests, deserts, grasslands, and the delicate web of life to which we are inextricably linked.
Whooping Crane
International Crane Foundation
The International Crane Foundation commits to a future where all crane species are secure - a future where people cooperate to protect and restore wild populations and their ecosystems. These efforts sustain the places where cranes live, to the benefit of countless other species.
Monarch Butterfly
Monarch Watch
Monarch Watch is dedicated to the education, conservation, and research of monarch butterflies. They operate an outreach program based at the University of Kansas that engages volunteers in “citizen-science” through large-scale research projects.
American Marten and Canadian Lynx
Wildlands Network
The Wildlands Network protects North America’s native animals and plants by connecting wildlife habitats through scientifically-sound action; networks of partners; and, innovative communications. We envision a day when we’ve stemmed the tide of species loss, restored keystone species, and ensured healthy human and natural communities thrive side by side.