WILD EARTH SOCIETY INCORPORATED DBA WILDLANDS NETWORK
329 W PIERPONT AVE 300, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84101

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life in all its diversity can thrive. Our work is founded in science, driven by fieldwork and furthered through strategic policy and partnerships. With staff based across the United States and in Mexico, Wildlands Network has been at the forefront of continental-scale conservation for nearly 30 years. The core principle of all we do is this: if protected areas are connected with healthy habitats on a continental scale, our treasured native plants and animals will thriveas will life-supporting ecological processes like carbon storage and pollination. Since our founding, we have advocated for continental networks of continuous habitat and movement corridors as a key solution to preserving healthy ecosystems. Using foundational principles of conservation biology, our founders identified the core natural areas on which native animals depend, and the corridors that connect them. We call them Wildways. This innova

Wildlife research, conservation, and education.

Over the past year, Wildlands Network made great strides towards protecting and restoring wildlife habitat connectivity across North America, with an approach that blends science and policy. In the Pacific Northwest, we completed the first draft of a Pacific Wildway map, in collaboration with experts at the University of Washington. The map identifies priority areas of wildlife habitat and corridors on which to focus protection and restoration efforts in the Pacific Northwest, accounting for anticipated climate change-induced ecological shift. This map will be officially unveiled in 2019. In the interior West, we completed mapping and analysis of the core habitat areas and movement corridors used by Mexican wolves within their designated recovery area in Arizona and New Mexico. We will use this data to work with federal land managers and state agencies to better understand and mitigate impediments to wolf dispersal and recovery. Additionally, we worked with legislators and state agencies to draft legislation in New Mexico that would allow for the creation of a state-wide wildlife corridor action plan. And we continued to work with local leaders, private landowners, scientists and conservationists to spotlight the impacts of border barriers on local wildlife populations, which resulted in national news coverage of the biological richness of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.In the East, we continued our outreach efforts across the entire Eastern Wildway, with a focus on providing insights to regional conservation efforts using our previously completed Half East map. We also made significant strides in community outreach through our work with landowners in the red wolf recovery area. We have placed numerous wildlife cameras throughout this area and have been able to document wolves and other native wildlife, dispelling myths about the negative impacts of wolves to other animals, such as deer. In D.C., we continued our focus on advocating for legislative protection of wildlife corridors, working with Senators and Representatives to introduce the newest version of the National Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act in 2018. When this legislation is passed, it will create a pivotal new management system for wildlife corridors on public lands, informing future wildlife and land management efforts at the state and federal level. In addition to our work in the United States, we continue to invest in strategic partnerships and contract work in Mexico and Canada, as we seek to build bridges within the science and policy community across North America to inform continentally significant conservation projects.

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