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2024 Wyoming wildfires The Elk Fire in Sheridan County on September 30th, 2024. The 2024 Wyoming wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned throughout the U.S. state of Wyoming during 2024.
The elk herd survives the hard winters of Jackson Hole through a supplementary feeding program [1] and a lottery-based, permitted hunting program. [2] The elk have antlers which are shed each year- the Boy Scouts of America have been collecting the antlers under permit since 1968 [3] and selling them at auction, under agreement that 75% of the proceeds are returned to the refuge, where they ...
Ongoing: 2024 Wyoming wildfires [1] April 13 – 2024 Wyoming Democratic presidential caucuses [2]; 2024 Wyoming Republican presidential caucuses [3]; July 26 – 2024 Gillette Pilatus PC-12 crash: A plane crashes in Campbell County, just north of Gillette, starting a wildfire and killing all seven people onboard, including three members of the gospel group The Nelons.
Eight Wisconsin residents have won a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hunt elk during the 2024 elk season, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources announced. The season opens Oct. 12.
The Savage Run Wilderness is located in south central Wyoming in the United States. Entirely within Medicine Bow National Forest, the wilderness was designated in 1978 in an effort to protect vital rangeland for a large elk population. U.S. Wilderness Areas do not allow motorized or mechanized vehicles, including bicycles.
University of Wyoming historian Phil Roberts described the notion of building a transcontinental railroad as "today's equivalent of the mission to Mars: Big, expensive and impossible". [13] The preliminary survey for the railroad produced the first map of the Great Basin and Southern Wyoming, according to author Stephen E. Ambrose. [14]
George Washington Memorial Park is located at the center of Jackson, Wyoming. More generally known as "Town Square", the park is notable for its elk-antler arches at each corner of the park, collected from the nearby National Elk Refuge by Boy Scouts and periodically rebuilt. The square originally existed as an open space in the center of town ...
Elk Mountain is located in a public landlocked parcel which became the center of federal lawsuit against four hunters from Missouri in 2022. In 2020 and 2021, the hunters used a step ladder and OnX, an application that maps public lands, to "corner-cross" their way over the 22,000-acre ranch (8,900 ha) owned by Fred Eshelman, an entrepreneur and resident of North Carolina.