Jackson Hole

  • Admission. Forest Service says elk feedground will spread Chronic Wasting Disease

    Ralph Maughan

    B-T Forest renews elk feedground while admitting it will spread brucellosis, parasites and chronic wasting disease- Acting Bridger-Teton National Forest supervisor Kathryn Conant is going to renew the special use permit for Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Alkali Creek winter elk feedlot which is up the Gros Ventre River, sandwiched between the gravel road and…

  • Jackson, Wyoming landslide moving fast enough to watch (now web cams)

    Ralph Maughan

    Slide Web cams now added 4/19- http://imgur.com/a/XRMLl http://townofjackson.com/current/live-video-stream-budge-slide/ Jackson, WY. Efforts have stopped to build a tall concrete barrier to stall part of the East Gros Ventre Butte from giving away. The incipient slide has changed from movement too slow for the naked eye to fast enough to draw a crowd. Cracks and bulges were noticed…

  • Jackson Hole: Geology 101. How to disturb a slumbering landslide

    Ralph Maughan

    Slide was not started by spring thaw and rain alone- The slide (or maybe best called a “slump”) above the northwest part of Jackson, Wyoming was not just the product of a wet spring, the spring thaw, and a steep slope known to have been unstable. A lengthy story in the Jackson Hole News and…

  • Are more than 50 pronghorn now locked in Jackson Hole for the winter?

    Ralph Maughan

    If 53 are now trapped in “The Hole,” how many will survive? The Jackson Hole News and Guide has reported that 53 pronghorn antelope have been spotted on the National Elk Refuge well after the herd normally migrates out of cold and snowy Jackson Hole, over the Gros Ventre Mountains, and then down southward to…

  • New wildfire grows rapidly just south of Jackson, WY

    Ralph Maughan

    Human-caused fire just one ridge south of Cache Creek! Revised on 9/11 afternoon. All of the mountains immediately south of Jackson, WY have been closed due to the Little Horsethief Fire Horsethief Canyon Fire that started from an illegal private trash fire late Saturday and now is over 1500 2600 acres just south of the…

  • Jackson Hole pronghorn population is nearing a record

    Ralph Maughan

    Record fawn population lifts the total near to a record of 400- It’s common to hear a small noisy segment of the citizenry complain how the elk population is down in the southern Yellowstone Park area. In addition, climate change has slashed moose population in and around Jackson Hole, but there is good news about…

  • Bighorn in Teton Mountains are isolated and struggle yet don’t use all of the prime habitat

    Ralph Maughan

    Teton bighorn herd is really two isolated populations and fail to expand into good habitat available- For a long time the bighorn in the famed Teton Mountains have more or less hung on.  Most stories about them tend toward pessimism. Now Jackson Hole News and Guide reporter Cory Hatch reports research by three agencies that…

  • Famous grizzly families fight over bison carcass in Grand Teton

    Ralph Maughan

    Video now added- Because they are so visible and photogenic, people are always interested in news about grizzly bear 399 and her cubs and also her adult daughter grizzly 610 and her offspring. This year they moved to the very southern part of Grand Teton National Park. That has caused both joy and consternation, and…

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