The National Elk Refuge was created thanks to the farsighted vision of some of the original homesteaders in the valley. The town of Jackson and its network of roads were built in migration paths ...

At the beginning of 1911, Wyoming received financial support to preserve the elk in Jackson Hole. Then, in August of 1912, Congress donated more than 2,500 acres of public and purchased land and ...

The National Elk Refuge will ... operations for the Jackson Herd is also underway, though making wholesale changes will require broad buy-in from the public. Even the Wyoming governor would ...