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Friends of the Bridger-Teton helps maintain and support more than 2,000 miles of trails on the fifth-largest national forest in the U.S. With 3.4 million acres of breathtaking landscapes, the Bridger-Teton National Forest (BTNF) offers endless adventures.
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Teton Interagency Fire crews responded yesterday afternoon to suppress the Kinky Creek Fire, located approximately three miles west of Darwin Ranch, near upper Gros Ventre Falls in the Gros Ventre Wilderness on the BTNF’s Jackson Ranger District.
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The public is asked to avoid Kinky Creek Road; Kinky Creek and Clear Creek trails; and Brewster, Lunch, and Chateau lakes so fire crews can work safely and efficiently. A forest closure order of the area is forthcoming.
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The fire is burning in timber on a steep slope, and yesterday exhibited active fire behavior with torching, spotting, and running, quickly growing to an estimated 350-acres.
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Yesterday, smokejumpers were able to create an anchor point at the heel of the fire and are working to keep the fire on the west side of the Gros Ventre River. An anchor point is a secure location that firefighters establish to begin building fireline from. Other resources began setting up structure protection around Darwin Ranch.
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Firefighting resources include a type 3 helicopter, air attack, smokejumpers, fire engines, and other support staff, with over 50 firefighters working to suppress the fire. Additional resources have also been ordered and will arrive today.
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Fire managers are implementing direct extinguishment and indirect confinement strategies on the Kinky Creek Fire. A direct extinguishment strategy is when firefighters engage the active flame front directly to stop fire spread. An indirect confinement strategy is when firefighters work away from the active flame front to steer or contain the fire.
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A type 3 incident management team has been ordered to help with firefighting efforts and should arrive by this evening. A type 3 incident management team is a multi-agency organization of firefighting specialists that manage incidents of moderate complexity that require more resources and a longer operational duration than the local forest can handle alone.
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Follow the fire in the link in our bio.
It’s Wyoming Native Pollinators week—Have you celebrated yet?
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Either join in or continue your celebrations with a BBQ, meeting local biologists and researchers, and pollinator/native plant trivia (teams of up to 6) at Melvin Brewing Taproom & Kitchen June 25.
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If you can’t make it June 25, pop into @melvintaproomkitchen anytime this week and get $1 off a pint of its Killer Bees brew.
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@astoriahotspringsandpark @wyomingoutdoorcouncil
“I like to do something fun and interesting every summer and like to stay in beautiful places,” says FBT/BTNF volunteer Art Bunting. “The Bridger-Teton National Forest is a beautiful place full of wonderful animals and things to do and we [Art is here with Sue Bertsch] thought volunteering for Friends of the Bridger-Teton on it would be a great way to spend our summer.”
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Art first visited the area in his Volkswagon campmobile in the 1960s and 70s. He was a kayak instructor at the time and exploring Western rivers. “Jackson Hole was pretty wild then,” he says. “There weren’t a lot of people.”
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Our Ambassadors for Responsible Recreation program includes full- and part-time summer and winter positions as volunteers for the USDA Forest Service on the BTNF. Summer Ambassador jobs range from educating visitors and locals about the importance of recreating responsibly to manning desks at area visitor centers, doing outreach on behalf of the forest, cleaning toilets, monitoring campgrounds, patrolling popular trails and trailheads, and helping recycle bear spray, among other duties.
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This summer there are 40 volunteer Ambassadors for Responsible Recreation across all six districts of the BTNF. They are supported by local lodging tax dollars, Friends of the Bridger-Teton, and private donations.
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#bridgertetonnationalforest #bridgertetonfriends #nationalforests #nationalforest #publiclands publicland getoutside responsiblerecreation keepwildlifewild
Sue Bertsch worked as a nurse for 44 years, lives in Redmond, Oregon, and first visited Jackson Hole in the 1980s. She remembers the area’s mountainous beauty. “I’m excited to experience the area more deeply—and to help others do the same,” she says. “Volunteering for the BTNF is such a great opportunity.”
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Our Ambassadors for Responsible Recreation program includes full- and part-time summer and winter positions as volunteers for the USDA Forest Service on the BTNF. Summer Ambassador jobs range from educating visitors and locals about the importance of recreating responsibly to manning desks at area visitor centers, doing outreach on behalf of the forest, cleaning toilets, monitoring campgrounds, patrolling popular trails and trailheads, and helping recycle bear spray, among other duties.
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This summer there are 40 volunteer Ambassadors for Responsible Recreation across all six districts of the BTNF. They are supported by local lodging tax dollars, Friends of the Bridger-Teton, and private donations.
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#bridgertetonnationalforest #bridgertetonfriends #nationalforests #nationalforest #publiclands publicland getoutside responsiblerecreation
Migration tracking week 5 🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌 courtesy of @migrationinitiative || Deer 665 stopped over for the week of May 7-14, 2026 on Raspberry Ridge in Hoback Basin. This marks the fourth stopover location along her 135-mile migration that began near Superior, Wyoming on April 9.
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This time of year, Raspberry Ridge is full of plants like sticky purple geranium, arrowleaf balsamroot, lupine, and mules ears (wyethia).
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All these just-sprouted plants are helping Deer 665 finish out the last weeks of her pregnancy. Here’s hoping she successfully gives birth to the twins the @monteithshop team detected with a field ultrasound at Superior, Wyoming back in March of 2026.
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This Raspberry Ridge stopover is a special place for Deer 665, a spot that she has frequented since her first solo spring migration in 2022.
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Deer 665 stopped over at Raspberry Ridge on the following dates and durations:
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-In spring 2022: May 18-June 6, 20 days. No fall stopover.
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-In 2023: June 7-21, 14 days. She also made fall stopover: October 21-27, 6 days.
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-In spring 2024, Deer 665 was at Raspberry Ridge from May 25-30. She did not stopover at Raspberry Ridge during fall 2024 migration.
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-In spring 2025, Deer 665 foraged at Raspberry Ridge from May 24-31 for six days. That fall, she again blasted through this area on her southward migration to the Red Desert.
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At seven days for the 2026 Raspberry Ridge spring stopover, Deer 665 is already past her durations for 2024 and 2025. She is also more than two weeks earlier at this stopover by calendar date, due to the early springtime conditions in western Wyoming this year.
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Graphics and text from @migrationinitiative.
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#deer665 #Wyoming #deer #nature #naturelovers.
Teton Interagency Fire crews responded yesterday afternoon to suppress the Kinky Creek Fire, located approximately three miles west of Darwin Ranch, near upper Gros Ventre Falls in the Gros Ventre Wilderness on the BTNF’s Jackson Ranger District.
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The public is asked to avoid Kinky Creek Road; Kinky Creek and Clear Creek trails; and Brewster, Lunch, and Chateau lakes so fire crews can work safely and efficiently. A forest closure order of the area is forthcoming.
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The fire is burning in timber on a steep slope, and yesterday exhibited active fire behavior with torching, spotting, and running, quickly growing to an estimated 350-acres.
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Yesterday, smokejumpers were able to create an anchor point at the heel of the fire and are working to keep the fire on the west side of the Gros Ventre River. An anchor point is a secure location that firefighters establish to begin building fireline from. Other resources began setting up structure protection around Darwin Ranch.
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Firefighting resources include a type 3 helicopter, air attack, smokejumpers, fire engines, and other support staff, with over 50 firefighters working to suppress the fire. Additional resources have also been ordered and will arrive today.
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Fire managers are implementing direct extinguishment and indirect confinement strategies on the Kinky Creek Fire. A direct extinguishment strategy is when firefighters engage the active flame front directly to stop fire spread. An indirect confinement strategy is when firefighters work away from the active flame front to steer or contain the fire.
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A type 3 incident management team has been ordered to help with firefighting efforts and should arrive by this evening. A type 3 incident management team is a multi-agency organization of firefighting specialists that manage incidents of moderate complexity that require more resources and a longer operational duration than the local forest can handle alone.
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Follow the fire in the link in our bio.
It’s Wyoming Native Pollinators week—Have you celebrated yet?
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Either join in or continue your celebrations with a BBQ, meeting local biologists and researchers, and pollinator/native plant trivia (teams of up to 6) at Melvin Brewing Taproom & Kitchen June 25.
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If you can’t make it June 25, pop into @melvintaproomkitchen anytime this week and get $1 off a pint of its Killer Bees brew.
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@astoriahotspringsandpark @wyomingoutdoorcouncil
“I like to do something fun and interesting every summer and like to stay in beautiful places,” says FBT/BTNF volunteer Art Bunting. “The Bridger-Teton National Forest is a beautiful place full of wonderful animals and things to do and we [Art is here with Sue Bertsch] thought volunteering for Friends of the Bridger-Teton on it would be a great way to spend our summer.”
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Art first visited the area in his Volkswagon campmobile in the 1960s and 70s. He was a kayak instructor at the time and exploring Western rivers. “Jackson Hole was pretty wild then,” he says. “There weren’t a lot of people.”
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Our Ambassadors for Responsible Recreation program includes full- and part-time summer and winter positions as volunteers for the USDA Forest Service on the BTNF. Summer Ambassador jobs range from educating visitors and locals about the importance of recreating responsibly to manning desks at area visitor centers, doing outreach on behalf of the forest, cleaning toilets, monitoring campgrounds, patrolling popular trails and trailheads, and helping recycle bear spray, among other duties.
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This summer there are 40 volunteer Ambassadors for Responsible Recreation across all six districts of the BTNF. They are supported by local lodging tax dollars, Friends of the Bridger-Teton, and private donations.
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#bridgertetonnationalforest #bridgertetonfriends #nationalforests #nationalforest #publiclands publicland getoutside responsiblerecreation keepwildlifewild
Sue Bertsch worked as a nurse for 44 years, lives in Redmond, Oregon, and first visited Jackson Hole in the 1980s. She remembers the area’s mountainous beauty. “I’m excited to experience the area more deeply—and to help others do the same,” she says. “Volunteering for the BTNF is such a great opportunity.”
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Our Ambassadors for Responsible Recreation program includes full- and part-time summer and winter positions as volunteers for the USDA Forest Service on the BTNF. Summer Ambassador jobs range from educating visitors and locals about the importance of recreating responsibly to manning desks at area visitor centers, doing outreach on behalf of the forest, cleaning toilets, monitoring campgrounds, patrolling popular trails and trailheads, and helping recycle bear spray, among other duties.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
This summer there are 40 volunteer Ambassadors for Responsible Recreation across all six districts of the BTNF. They are supported by local lodging tax dollars, Friends of the Bridger-Teton, and private donations.
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#bridgertetonnationalforest #bridgertetonfriends #nationalforests #nationalforest #publiclands publicland getoutside responsiblerecreation
Migration tracking week 5 🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌 courtesy of @migrationinitiative || Deer 665 stopped over for the week of May 7-14, 2026 on Raspberry Ridge in Hoback Basin. This marks the fourth stopover location along her 135-mile migration that began near Superior, Wyoming on April 9.
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This time of year, Raspberry Ridge is full of plants like sticky purple geranium, arrowleaf balsamroot, lupine, and mules ears (wyethia).
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All these just-sprouted plants are helping Deer 665 finish out the last weeks of her pregnancy. Here’s hoping she successfully gives birth to the twins the @monteithshop team detected with a field ultrasound at Superior, Wyoming back in March of 2026.
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This Raspberry Ridge stopover is a special place for Deer 665, a spot that she has frequented since her first solo spring migration in 2022.
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Deer 665 stopped over at Raspberry Ridge on the following dates and durations:
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-In spring 2022: May 18-June 6, 20 days. No fall stopover.
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-In 2023: June 7-21, 14 days. She also made fall stopover: October 21-27, 6 days.
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-In spring 2024, Deer 665 was at Raspberry Ridge from May 25-30. She did not stopover at Raspberry Ridge during fall 2024 migration.
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-In spring 2025, Deer 665 foraged at Raspberry Ridge from May 24-31 for six days. That fall, she again blasted through this area on her southward migration to the Red Desert.
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At seven days for the 2026 Raspberry Ridge spring stopover, Deer 665 is already past her durations for 2024 and 2025. She is also more than two weeks earlier at this stopover by calendar date, due to the early springtime conditions in western Wyoming this year.
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Graphics and text from @migrationinitiative.
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#deer665 #Wyoming #deer #nature #naturelovers.