Human-Wildlife Conflict

We work with government agencies and private landowners to mitigate human-wildlife conflict. In Teton County, we support efforts to prevent wildlife from becoming habituated to human food, reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions, and maintain and restore daily and seasonal migration corridors. Some recent projects we’ve worked on include:

  • Teton Conservation District proudly supported Denizens of the Steep, a short film highlighting the urgent conservation challenge facing the Teton Bighorn Sheep herd and how winter recreationists can be part of the solution. To help recreationists better understand how to limit their disturbance to wintering wildlife, we also assembled an unofficial reference of all seasonal travel restrictions/wildlife closures in Teton County, WY. Click here to learn more about the Winter Wildlife Closures Map.

 
 

  • Bridger-Teton National Forest, Friends of the Bridger-Teton, and Teton Conservation District partnered to construct seven new food storage poles at backcountry locations in the Teton Wilderness.  The poles will provide users with a safe way to properly store food items, big game carcasses, and other attractants so that they are unavailable to bears and other wildlife. Click here to download a .pdf of the map OR click here to download a .kmz file.

  • Continued support of Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation to promote their Wildlife Friendlier Fencing program, maintain their wildlife-vehicle collision database, and purchase and install fixed-radar and digital message signs in wildlife-vehicle collision hotspots.

  • Supported Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance’s distribution of the Teton County Wildlife Crossings Master Plan Summary and hosting of a virtual conference with a Banff Wildlife Crossings Engineer.

  • Awarded funding to Farmstead Cider to harvest and map crabapple trees with potential for wildlife conflict on over 100 private properties.

  • Contributed funding and staff expertise to Bridger-Teton National Forest’s assessment of summer recreation impact on wildlife movement and distribution.

One of the food storage poles being constructed in the Teton Wilderness in 2020.

One of the food storage poles being constructed in the Teton Wilderness in 2020.

Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation video of a moose crossing a wildlife friendlier fence.