Bear Boxes: Keeping Bears Wild and Visitors Safe Each summer, Grand Teton’s 1,000 frontcountry campsites fill with visitors from near and far. Now that both black and grizzly bears frequent most areas in the park, it is more important than …
Training Volunteers Who Make Grand Teton Safer for All Tasked with facilitating safe interactions between visitors and animals, Grand Teton’s Wildlife Brigade members are part ambassadors, part compliance officers. This valuable group of volunteers manages roadside “wildlife jams,” patrols picnic …
Reaching Beyond Borders to Protect Biodiversity Building on the successful delineation and conservation of the Path of the Pronghorn in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society, park biologists have studied migration patterns of red-tailed hawks, osprey, elk, and bison, and …
Protecting Native Cutthroat Trout and Stream Habitat Grand Teton’s pristine waterways contain vital habitat for the only native trout species in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem — the Yellowstone and Snake River Cutthroat Trout. These fish are subject to many stressors …
Magnificent beasts in a foreign land While superbly adapted to Teton-like habitats, mountain goats are not native to our local mountains. Instead, they are likely descendants of animals translocated from native origins to the Snake River Range south of the …
Research to help understand bear-human interactions Considered rare in Grand Teton just 25 years ago, grizzlies have regained a stronghold in the park. Their rapid expansion into formerly occupied habitat mirrored population recovery around the Yellowstone ecosystem, and they now …
A top predator missing from the ecosystem for nearly 70 years has returned Wolves were absent from Grand Teton National Park from the 1930s to 1998, when a breeding pair originating from animals introduced to Yellowstone National Park denned and …