Who was first to reach the top of 13,770-foot Grand Teton in Wyoming? Was it Yellowstone National Park’s first superintendent, Nathaniel Langford, who said he did it in 1872? Or a group of climbers who documented their ascent later, in 1898? No one will ever know for sure, but the Park Service did not take […]
Lauren Mckeever
Posted inMay 29, 1995: Politics 101
Forest forestalls squatters
The housing crunch in Jackson, Wyo., is expected to get even tighter this summer. Bridger-Teton National Forest officials announced in April that camping on forest land in the Jackson district this summer will be limited to five days, cut from 16. This worries the Jackson Hole chamber of commerce, since 1,200 seasonal workers usually move […]
Posted inDecember 27, 1993: Yellowstone
Poachers zero in on Yellowstone’s prized wildlife
More poachers take wildlife from Yellowstone. Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s features stories about grizzlies in Yellowstone Park. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Poachers zero in on Yellowstone’s prized wildlife.