Tag: Grand Teton National Park

November 2, 2021

TWS2021: Humans influence predator-prey dynamics in Jackson Hole

Around Jackson Hole, Wyoming, people are changing the ways wolves prey on elk, sometimes acting as a shield for the prey against their predators. Ungulates, like elk, in the area...

March 17, 2021

Effort succeeding to reduce Tetons’ nonnative mountain goats

Efforts to reduce the population of nonnative mountain goats in the Tetons has reduced their numbers to 29 — all in Grand Teton National Park. Wyoming Game and Fish biologists...

February 27, 2020

Helicopter shooting of Teton mountain goats called off

The National Park Service backed off plans to use aerial shooting to remove invasive mountain goats from Grand Teton National Park after Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon wrote a sharply worded...

October 16, 2019

Grand Teton to remove mountain goats

Grand Teton National Park has approved a plan to remove mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) from the Teton Range. According to the plan announced on Tuesday, the goats, which are not...