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GYCC Jurisdictions and their Managers

USDA US Forest Service (Regions 1, 2, and 4)

Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Supervisor, Alfred Watson
Bridger-Teton National Forest Supervisor, Chad Hudson
Caribou-Targhee National Forest Supervisor, Mel Bolling
Custer Gallatin National Forest Supervisor, Matthew Jedra
Shoshone National Forest Supervisor, Kenneth Coffin

US DOI Bureau of Land Management (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming)

BLM ID, Idaho Falls District Manager, Mary D'Aversa (Vice-Chair)
BLM MT, Acting Western Montana District Manager, Carrie Cecil
BLM WY, Acting Wind River/Bighorn Basin District Manager, Mike Phillips

US DOI US Fish and Wildlife Service (Mountain-Prairie Region)

National Elk Refuge Manager, Frank Durbian
Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge Manager, Mike Bryant

US DOI National Park Service (Intermountain Region)

Grand Teton National Park Superintendent, Chip Jenkins (Chair)
Yellowstone National Park Superintendent, Cam Sholly

States of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming

Idaho Fish & Game Dept. Regional Supv.-Upper Snake, Matt Pieron
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Acting Region Three Supv. Nathan Lance
Wyoming Game & Fish Dept. Director, Angi Bruce

Tami Blackford is the Executive Coordinator of the GYCC.

GYCC Subcommittees

Fire Management (since 1990)
Hydrology (since 1990)
Terrestrial Invasive Species (since 1991)
Clean Air Partnership (since 1997)
Whitebark Pine (since 2000)
Aquatic Invasive Species (since 2006)
Native Fish (since 2009)
Climate Change Adaptation (since 2010)
Wildlife (since 2012)
Communications (ad hoc)

In October 2022, GYCC managers took a field trip during their fall meeting to look at spring flood damage on the Custer Gallatin National Forest in the East Rosebud drainage.

More on the history of the GYCC.

The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) is a unique and special place. The 15 million acres of federal lands of the GYE are geographically contiguous, ecologically interdependent, and unalterably linked. They are managed by four federal agencies, the National Park Service, the US Forest Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management, each with differing missions and organizational structures. The Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee (GYCC) allows the federal land and state wildlife managers of the GYE to pursue opportunities for voluntary cooperation and coordination at the landscape scale. The GYCC is formed through a Charter that documents the desire of all parties to cooperate fully in matters relating to responsible land management throughout the GYE. The GYCC is not a regional decision-making body. See the current Strategic Priorities.