Grand Canyon Wildlands Council’s conservation approach focuses on the interweaving of stewardship and restoration

—in Leopold’s words: saving the pieces, healing the wounds.

The Grand Canyon Wildlands Network is a proactive template for protecting wildlife, habitats, and connections with a vision for the next hundred years. First, implementing the Grand Canyon Wildlands Network means working for new land protections like national monuments, wilderness and wild and scenic rivers. Implementing the network also means taking actions to sustain all native species in natural patterns of distribution and abundance. For this second piece, we are committed to making immediate and visible change on the ground through our riparian and springs restoration work and wildlife and plant species recovery. Having already found that riparian and springs habitats are some of the most highly altered, rarest, and most ecologically important in this region, these have become priority areas for restoration projects. Endangered gray wolf and humpback chub are two of the wildlife species that we are working to help restore through sponsoring and participating in the Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project and by assisting the National Park Service and cooperating agencies with humpback chub range expansion. The two streams of Grand Canyon Wildlands conservation are sustained by a third focus on conservation science. We have relied on the hard work of many volunteers, organizations, agencies and professionals to carry out these projects and we extend our great appreciation to all those who have contributed thus far.