Crampons crunched in the mountain snow. Afternoon sun shone through wispy clouds as Simeon Caskey surveyed the glacier that swept skyward before him, from the base of the Middle Teton to high on its north face. He turned to his climbing partner.
Relationships changed and unraveled. Promises proved empty. Attempts to massage scientific data bubbled up. Those elements all factored into the failure to develop a pronghorn-friendly gas field where Jackson Hole’s migratory animals winter, according to a scientific paper.
A Kelly resident and big game hunting guide who illegally shot and killed a wolf in Grand Teton National Park last winter is being allowed to commercially outfit hunters without interruption.
Populated basins and valleys around the Rocky Mountains struggle with polluted air that sometimes won’t disperse, but Jackson Hole is not one of those places.
The winding road leading from Moose to Teton Village is again closed to provide space for a grizzly bear that’s been foraging berries alongside the shoulder.
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Jackson Hole pronghorn’s critical winter range doubles as one of the largest natural gas fields in the U.S. But new research shows that the native tawny-and-white residents are avoiding, and even abandoning, the altered landscape.
The relatively new detection of the Red Desert-to-Hoback mule deer migration continues to inspire efforts to conserve the 150-mile passageway.
Jackson Hole pronghorn’s critical winter range doubles as one of the largest natural gas fields in the U.S. But new research shows that the native tawny-and-white residents are avoiding, and even abandoning, the altered landscape.
If there’s smoke in the air, the best thing a volunteer can often do is wait.
Kelly’s resident biological research institute, Craighead Beringia South, is an outfit that keeps remote, motion-tripped cameras on the landscape simply for the sake of seeing what’s out there.
When a blaze like the Saddle Butte Fire ignites, firefighters go through a check list. They make a quick plan, check their gear, call for reinforcements and they… name it?
Two 2019 fence pulls are left
The Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation is continuing fence removal and modification projects intended to help animals move around the landscape.
Eco Tour Adventures wildlife safari guide Josh Metten spotted a common raven with a metallic band clamped onto its right foot while wildlife watching north of Blacktail Butte.
Rob Wallace’s first stint in Jackson Hole came as a GS-4 Grand Teton National Park seasonal ranger, and it was an exciting era to be a fledgling federal employee working in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Run for wilderness
The Wyoming Wilderness Association has organized a competitive trail run that will coincide with the inaugural Wyoming Public Lands Day.
The south and east faces of East Gros Ventre Butte are prime winter habitat for mule deer and elk, species whose homes will be somewhat compromised in the coming months by the Wildlife Museum and Saddle Butte wildfires.
Gov. Mark Gordon on Tuesday didn’t shy away from sharing his enthusiasm for Wyoming’s abundant publicly owned and government-administered landscapes.
It was all accolades Tuesday for a $2.5 million stormwater filtration system that now captures and conveys the bulk of the water running off of Jackson Hole Airport’s impervious surfaces.
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Access to parts of the South Park Wildlife Habitat Management Area will be restricted for much of September so a bridge can be replaced.
See Monday's fire updates and "Saddle Butte Fire, by the numbers" here.
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The U.S. Secretary of the Interior has made a top-down decision about the use of electric bikes on National Park Service lands, bucking policies that today are set individually by parks.
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Yellowstone National Park fisheries biologists will soon discharge the fish poison rotenone into much of the Upper Gibbon River drainage, which will be off-limits for part of September.
A city girl and widowed middle-aged mother named Jean Hocker came to Jackson Hole some 43 years ago for the love of a man.
Though mule deer on winter range have sagebrush shoots poking through the snow to munch on, the nutrients they offer are essentially unavailable to them around Wyoming gas pads.
Come next spring a panel of local experts tasked with counseling state managers about Jackson Hole’s sage grouse intends to have everything in order in case a reeling population needs an emergency infusion of birds.
Canyon Phillips had the rare experience of seeing his first wild wolf up close last weekend, though unfortunately the canine had just expired.
While Shane Rothman was driving home on Snow King Drive he saw a bear coming down the hill toward a couple of green Wyoming Game and Fish Department trucks. Rothman pulled over for a few minutes to take a look.
Lightning is the suspected cause of a new fire burning along the eastern shore of Yellowstone Lake.
Fence pulls continue
The Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation is continuing fence removal and modification projects intended to help animals move around the landscape.
An expansive, yearslong controlled burn project on the Bridger-Teton National Forest will get underway this fall along the forested front east of Star Valley.
A year from now, Grand Teton National Park visitors and employees should have drastically improved cell coverage in places ranging from Beaver Creek to the remote west shore of Jackson Lake.
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Grand Teton National Park rangers made the call Wednesday to reopen Signal Mountain Road and nearby trails, which had been closed because of a string of conflicts with berry-foraging bears about a week ago.
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Wildland firefighters on Thursday piled onto a Palisades Wilderness Study Area blaze, likely lit by humans, with the goal of fully suppressing the flames flicking from the mountainsides west of Jackson Hole.
Federal, state and local fire officials are closely watching fire conditions in Teton County as the weather remains hot and dry.
When the largest boulder slapped its way down the granite gulch feeding down Disappointment Peak, climbers who watched, mesmerized, hooted and hollered like amped-up animals.
Park rangers continue to observe bears foraging berries along the shoulders of Signal Mountain Road, which remains closed to public access until further notice.
Crews continued mopping up the Tannerite Fire southeast of Pinedale this week as evacuations lifted for 60-some homes threatened by the human-caused fire.
Missy Gresen’s white U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pickup truck rumbled over a two-track cutting through the National Elk Refuge’s Poverty Flats, which got its name for a reason.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse isn’t afraid to talk about one of the seemingly intractable issues of our time: climate change.
Meet the wildflowers
Join Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative researcher Trevor Bloom to learn about native plants while collecting data on how they are being affected by climate change.
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A stretch of rugged Flat Creek Road is being tentatively closed for the next week or so to allow wildland firefighters to “remove hazards” from the area.
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Numerous people using the trails southeast of Jackson in recent days have encountered an animal that’s either a young grizzly bear or a cinnamon-colored black bear that’s throwing people off.
Although it’s still under investigation, the cause of a 1,300-acre wildfire that started Saturday and led to more than 60 homes being evacuated south of Pinedale is no secret.
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The idea of a mountain bike trail near Pine Creek’s exit from Fremont Lake died on the vine earlier this summer out of concern for mule deer that pass through a migration “bottleneck” in the same area.
One new lightning-sparked wildfire is burning in the Gros Ventre Wilderness, and a Wyoming Range blaze had to be extinguished this week after a campfire ran out of control.
A fly-in community being marketed to wealthy jet-setters has broken ground with lots for sale on a private inholding surrounded by a remote reach of the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
Facing legal pressure, a federal agency that kills wildlife deemed to be a nuisance has agreed to reassess its plans for operating in Wyoming.
Federal wildlife officials plan to start weaning National Elk Refuge’s namesake animals off of supplemental feed this coming winter, but it’s looking like they won’t have the support of their Wyoming counterparts.
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