Trumpeter Swan Recovery Project
Yellowstone National Park is known throughout the world for its wildlife, including its trumpeter swans. Unfortunately most people who come to visit the park understand little about swan behavior and habitats or appropriate human behavior in areas where swans may be present. For example, many park visitors do not realize the harm and stress that it puts on trumpeter swans if people feed or approach them, intrude on their nesting sites, or photograph them too closely. However, negative encounters between humans and trumpeter swans are avoidable. Recently, there was very little written information available to Yellowstone visitors about appropriate precautions that should be taken in trumpeter swan country. The Foundation funded the development of brochures, signs, and an interpretive video for park visitors and wildlife watchers that explain the importance of appropriate behavior in areas of the park where trumpeter swans are present. Importantly, information was designed to be accessible in areas where the potential points of human-swan conflict are greatest.Total funds raised for the project: $20,000