Founded in 1996, the Yellowstone Park Foundation is the official fundraising partner of Yellowstone National Park, America’s first national park. In order to protect, preserve and enhance the park, the foundation works to fund important projects and programs, many of which are beyond the financial capacity of the National Park Service.
Based in Bozeman, Montana, the Yellowstone Park Foundation receives no annual government funding; it relies upon the support of private citizens, foundations and corporations. Since its inception, the foundation has raised over $100 million and funded more than 325 park projects, such as the rehabilitation of more than two dozen hiking trails, the creation of new exhibits at the Fishing Bridge Museum and a major landscape restoration at Artist Point.
The foundation funds projects under six strategic initiatives: visitor experience, cultural treasures, ranger heritage, greenest park, tomorrow's stewards, and wildlife, wonders and wilderness. Projects under these areas include long-term wildlife research, preservation of historic documents and artifacts, seminars for rangers, energy monitoring improvements, safety surveys and educational exhibits.
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