In the wake of Grizzly 399 and her four cubs’ October visits to southern populated stretches of Teton County — and the deaths of other bears that got into garbage — the town and county are both discussing ways to keep bears and people safe in the valley.
Grand Teton National Park officials, in coordination with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, euthanized a "highly food-conditioned," 4-year-old female grizzly bear on Saturday.
SUPERIOR — Their manes and tails flying in the air, the wild horses trot, canter and gallop ahead of the buzzing, weaving helicopter.
An interagency collective of biologists is recommending that 21,233 acres of high-quality winter habitat in the Teton Range be made off limits to humans to help an imperiled, declining herd of bighorn sheep stage a comeback.
Grand Teton National Park saw its second-busiest September this year, with 570,584 recreation visits.
The Bridger-Teton National Forest plans to issue the state of Wyoming a temporary permit to use the Dell Creek feedground this winter, continuing an elk feeding operation a federal judge recently invalidated.
Sightings of Grizzly 399 and her cubs around the Boyle's Hill Road and High School Butte area this weekend serve as a reminder that bears are looking for food and lots of it as they try to fatten up for winter hibernation.
A cold front is likely to turn into the first substantial snowfall of the season next week across the Northern Rocky Mountains, including in Teton County.
Yellowstone National Park is winding down search and recovery efforts for Kim Crumbo, 74, who had been on a four-night backcountry trip to Shoshone Lake with his brother, who died of hypothermia.
A woman who got too close to a Yellowstone grizzly family so she could take photos was sentenced to four days in jail and received other penalties as well, including a one-year ban from the national park.
Several trails around Phelps Lake as well as Death Canyon Road in Grand Teton National Park will be closed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and again next Tuesday through Thursday for safety reasons relating to work on the Phelps Lake outlet bridge.
A 2.2-mile-stretch of power line that climbs up Teton Pass may soon be buried by Lower Valley Energy if the electric utility gets the nod to do so.
Fisheries managers and advocates want anglers and river runners to log and share the locations of fish and aquatic insects that have become stranded in dewatered and disconnected braids of the Snake River.
Wildland firefighters will be at work igniting the slopes of Grouse Mountain this week for an experimental burn intended to regenerate imperiled whitebark pine trees by opening up the canopy.
Grand Teton National Park is asking visitors to heed warning signs and avoid areas where bear trapping is going on.
It’s a great rarity in modern times for the Upper Snake River watershed to resemble anything close to its natural condition.
A Wilson man went to the hospital after being knocked down by a moose on the bike path northeast of Wilson Elementary School, according to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
It’s not yet clear if hay will hit the ground at the Dell Creek feedground this coming winter, at least on the same 35 acres of national forestland near Bondurant where it has occurred for at least the past four decades.
Rifle season for big game in much of Northwest Wyoming kicks off with deer hunting on Wednesday, and wildlife managers want hunters who harvest to take one extra body part with them.
Wyoming’s 2021 count of male greater sage grouse declined 13% compared to 2020, extending the downward trend of the troubled bird’s key population indicator to five years.
Teton Interagency fire managers yesterday elevated the fire danger rating to high for Grand Teton National Park, the Bridger-Teton National Forest and the National Elk Refuge and urged people to use caution with flames.
The climber found dead at the base of the Black Chimney mountaineering route on Teewinot Mountain in Grand Teton National Park has been identified as Hitoshi Onoe, a 42-year-old IT engineer who was vacationing in Jackson.
Are you a hunter or angler short on change who’d rather not get mauled by a grizzly bear?
Grand Teton National Park rangers discovered a dead climber Saturday at the base of the Black Chimney climbing route on Teewinot Mountain.
PINEDALE — A Wyoming Game and Fish Department large-carnivore conflict team killed a male black bear Aug. 29 for pushing the limits while trying to get human food.
Pull up a lawn chair or spread a blanket on the grass at Teton County Library to watch a local documentary, “A Noble Pursuit,” under the stars Tuesday.
A proposal to use prescribed fire on hundreds of thousands of acres of the Caribou-Targhee National Forest has emerged from a withdrawn plan’s ashes, and is now being assessed on the forest’s southern Caribou portion.
Lightning is thought to have caused two fires in the area around Munger Mountain on Thursday.
A handful of lakes in the high country just to the east of Jackson Hole have again been documented with potentially dangerous concentrations of blue-green algae.
Teton County has joined federal land managers like Grand Teton National Park and the Bridger-Teton National Forest in lifting fire restrictions.
Last fall, a hunter’s stray round slammed into a vehicle parked in the westside pullout on Hwy. 26/89/191 just south of the Gros Ventre River — where tourists often park to peep at moose.
Berries are ripening and bears are gorging on the nutritious fruit right now along narrow, winding Moose-Wilson Road, where a close encounter could be dangerous.
Open, human-tended flames will legally return to the landscape after a nearly two-month-long, drought-induced ban on campfires outside of grates at designated campgrounds.
Update, 10:30 a.m. Saturday: The road has reopened to traffic in both directions.
Although the federally owned visitor center on North Cache Street has been closed because of Teton County’s high COVID-19 risk level, similar federal facilities in Grand Teton National Park are remaining open.
It’s once again OK to fish Yellowstone’s rivers and streams in the afternoon and evening.
Patagonia, the iconic sportswear company that has built a worldwide reputation on outdoor athleticism and environmental activism, will no longer supply Jackson Hole Mountain Resort with its products after a resort owner hosted a fundraiser for the right-wing House Freedom Fund.
The first migration corridor recognized and protected by the state of Wyoming is being scrutinized starting Thursday by a panel of stakeholders appointed by Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon.
For the first time in its 149-year history, Yellowstone National Park has surpassed the threshold of a million visitors in a month.
A Cheyenne lawmaker is drawing up new penalties to safeguard in-state waters from record-breaking numbers of watercraft easing down Wyoming boat ramps.
The 6.5-acre Mosquito Fire, which is visible from Teton Pass, continued burning along the Caribou-Targhee and Bridger-Teton national forest border Wednesday, two days after sparking.
The best meteor shower of the year reaches its apex this week, but the wondrous astronomical phenomenon could be tough to make out within the town of Jackson.
The four lightning-caused fires that sparked in Teton County last week are out, but the 0.14-acre Twin Creek Fire started Saturday in the Pinedale Ranger District of the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
In the last 60 days, temperatures in portions of northern and southwestern Wyoming have run up to 8 degrees above normal. And that isn’t just highs.
Four wildfires began in Teton County in the last two days, including two on Friday and two on Thursday.
PINEDALE — If a hunter posts self-congratulatory photos on Facebook with an elk, moose, wolf, badger or deer taken in a questionable hunt, a wildlife investigator might be calling one day.
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