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The furthest consistent migration of elk to the refuge is currently from the southern portion of Yellowstone National Park, [4] making it the second-longest ungulate migration in the lower 48 states. (The migration of pronghorn between the Green River basin and Jackson Hole is longer).
A year later, twenty-one elk from Jackson Hole, Wyoming were reintroduced to South Dakota's Wind Cave National Park for population increase. [3] Conservation efforts also brought the elk populations in New Mexico from near-zero numbers in the late 1800s and early 1900s, to healthy populations in the 1930s in Northern New Mexico.
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The property was eventually transferred to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in what became the National Elk Refuge. The buildings are a component of the closely related Grace and Robert Miller Ranch. [2] Robert Miller was born at Wisconsin in 1863. He took up permanent residence in Jackson Hole in 1885
Elk do not appear to benefit from thermal cover. [44] The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem elk herds comprise as many as 40,000 individuals. [45] During the spring and fall, they take part in the longest elk migration in the continental U.S., traveling as much as 168 mi (270 km) between summer and winter ranges.
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John Colter - First person of European descent to enter Jackson Hole and see the Teton Range [2] Warren Angus Ferris - Early Yellowstone and Teton region trapper; Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden - U.S. Geological Surveys 1871-1875 of Yellowstone and Teton region; David Edward Jackson - Known as "Davey" Jackson and namesake for Jackson Hole [3]