Ours is a vision for the future of the wild heart of North America. Aware that the Yellowstone to Yukon region constitutes the world's last best chance to retain a fully functioning mountain ecosystem, we envision a day:

• When a life-sustaining web of protected wildlife cores and connecting wildlife linkage areas has been defined and designated for the Yellowstone to Yukon region;
  
• When that life-sustaining web is embraced as a source of pride by those who live within it and visit it, and is acknowledged as a living testimony to a society wise enough to recognize the need for such a web, altruistic enough to create it, and prudent enough to maintain it;
  
• When all natural and human communities in the Yellowstone to Yukon region coexist in a healthy mountain ecosystem of clean air and water, abiding beauty, and abundant wildlife and wilderness;
  
• When land-use decisions in the region are based first and foremost on ecological principles;
  
• When natural resources in the region are managed with the goals of ecosystem integrity and long-term economic prosperity in mind;
  
• And when residents of the Yellowstone to Yukon region take it for granted that their long-term personal, spiritual and economic well-being is inextricably connected to the well-being of natural systems.