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Yellowstone Forever Taking Donations To Help Park Recover From Historic Flooding

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By Kurt Repanshek - August 7th, 2022
A resiliency fund has been set up by Yellowstone Forever to help Yellowstone National Park recovery from June's flooding.

A resiliency fund has been set up by Yellowstone Forever to help Yellowstone National Park recover from June's flooding.

More than $1 million has been raised in donations for recovery efforts at Yellowstone National Park through the park's philanthropic partner, Yellowstone Forever.

While the bulk of the damage from June's floodwaters -- severed roads, backcountry trail damage, wastewater treatment failures -- will be paid for by the federal government, the money being raised by Yellowstone Forever can be used for indirect needs created by the flooding.

The money has to be spent in areas "consistent with our mission, and also with donor intent," said Yellowstone Forever President and CEO Lisa Diekmann. "We have a grant process every year with the park, that they come to us with requests for funds in February and then we have 12 months to raise that money and then they know they're going to have that money to spend in their next fiscal year.

"The resiliency fund is set up in much the same way," she added. "They [park staff] come to us and say, 'Hey, we really need support, for instance, for two new shuttle vans, because the Old Gardiner road is a critical connection' for many of their park employees outside the park and inside the park. So it's the same type of request process."

The resiliency fund, she said, "is set up to help Yellowstone recover quickly," she added.

So far, roughly $1.3 million has been donated to the fund.

"As long as it seems like that's something that people are wanting to support, we'll leave that open," Diekmann said.

While Diekmann said she wondered at one point whether the resiliency fund might lead to declines in giving to Yellowstone Forever's other campaigns for the park, she hasn't seen that happen. In fact, just the opposite occurred in one case.

"It did inspire one donor to make a very generous five-year pledge to one of our wildlife projects," she pointed out. "So in some ways, it might help inspire somebody to say, 'You know, I've been meaning to do this for a while. Let's get this done.'"

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