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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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Learn more at btfriends.org.
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Migration tracking week 3 🦌🦌🦌 || Deer 665 spent ten days stopped over on a ridge overlooking the south shore of glacier-carved Boulder Lake, Wyoming. She paused her migration from April 20-30 and stayed in an area measuring half of a square mile. She’s still about 90 miles north of her winter range in Superior, and three to four weeks ahead of last year’s spring migration.
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Deer 665 stopped over on a hillside at 7,700 feet elevation. Here she found all the springtime plants that help her body bounce back from the months-long calorie deficit of a Wyoming winter.
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Stopovers might seem less exciting than forward progress, but from a nutritional perspective these pauses in migration are crucial to the year-round survival of mule deer herds. They enable successful gestation and lactation for fawns, and set the herd up for a successful mating season and better chances at winter survival.
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When you add up all the stopovers and time in motion, mule deer can spend up to a third of the year migration routes.
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This stopover is familiar terrain for Deer 665, because she spent May 19-20, 2024 on this same ridge. Last year, she spent May 18-20, 2025 stopped over just to the north of Boulder Lake.
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This particular stopover is located on Bureau of Land Management land owned by the federal government and all Americans, in the ancestral homeland of Newe (Shoshone), Apsalooke (Crow), and other Indigenous nations.
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This is the third in MWI’s series of spring 2026 migration updates for Deer 665. Follow them in the link in our bio to see weekly updates.
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Graphic and text from @migrationinitiative
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#wyomingwildlife #wyomignmigrationinitiative #deer665 #wyomingmuledeermigration #muledeer
It was a tough spring for arrowleaf balsamroots, but we still managed to find plenty of wildflowers between 6,000 and 7,500 feet last week. (And we did find one pocket of balsamroots that weren’t taken out by the late May snow!)
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#wyomingwildflowers #wildflowers #wyomingrange #bridgertetonnationalforest
If anything is deserving of a weekend of celebrating, it’s the Snake River!
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@snakeriverfest returns with live music, conservation, fishing, racing, stewardship projects, river education, and enough outdoor enthusiasts to make Patagonia stock spike.
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Whether you’re a kayaker, angler, river rat, or simply enjoy dramatically staring at moving water, there’s something on the schedule for you.
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Friday: Block Party at Phil Baux Park
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Saturday: Kids Fishing Day, The Big Race on the Hoback, Hoback Hoedown
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Sunday: Greys River BoaterX
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@snakeriverfund #bridgertetonnationalforest
As more hikers and horses are hitting the trail, remember that horses always have the right of way. The safest way to get out of their way is to communicate with the rider as soon as they come into view and to then move off the trail—on the downhill side if possible.
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Thanks to Teton Backcountry Horsemen for this sign at the Willow Creek Trailhead, and also for the updated trail signs they put up in the area back in 2024. The signs are still looking good!
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#wyominghiking #willowcreek #bridgertetonnationalforest #trailetiquette #respectotherusers tetonbackcountryhorsemen wyomingtrailriding publiclands nationalforests nationalforest publicland
Planning to explore the BTNF using anything with a motor? The Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) displays National Forest System roads and trails and areas designated as open to motorized travel. MVUMs also display allowed uses by vehicle class (ex. highway-legal vehicles, vehicles less than 50 inches wide and motorcycles), seasonal allowances, distance allowances, and provides information on other travel rules and regulations. Routes not shown on the MVUM are not open to public motor vehicle travel. Routes designated for motorized use may not always be signed on the ground but will be identified on the MVUM.
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It is the public’s responsibility to reference the MVUM for the area they’re in to stay on designated routes.
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Where do you get these maps? The link in our bio takes you to a BTNF webpage where you can download (for free) official MVUMs.
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#bridgertetonnationalforest #bridgertetonfriends #motorizedvehicleusemap #MVUM
Migration tracking week 3 🦌🦌🦌 || Deer 665 spent ten days stopped over on a ridge overlooking the south shore of glacier-carved Boulder Lake, Wyoming. She paused her migration from April 20-30 and stayed in an area measuring half of a square mile. She’s still about 90 miles north of her winter range in Superior, and three to four weeks ahead of last year’s spring migration.
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Deer 665 stopped over on a hillside at 7,700 feet elevation. Here she found all the springtime plants that help her body bounce back from the months-long calorie deficit of a Wyoming winter.
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Stopovers might seem less exciting than forward progress, but from a nutritional perspective these pauses in migration are crucial to the year-round survival of mule deer herds. They enable successful gestation and lactation for fawns, and set the herd up for a successful mating season and better chances at winter survival.
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When you add up all the stopovers and time in motion, mule deer can spend up to a third of the year migration routes.
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This stopover is familiar terrain for Deer 665, because she spent May 19-20, 2024 on this same ridge. Last year, she spent May 18-20, 2025 stopped over just to the north of Boulder Lake.
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This particular stopover is located on Bureau of Land Management land owned by the federal government and all Americans, in the ancestral homeland of Newe (Shoshone), Apsalooke (Crow), and other Indigenous nations.
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This is the third in MWI’s series of spring 2026 migration updates for Deer 665. Follow them in the link in our bio to see weekly updates.
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Graphic and text from @migrationinitiative
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#wyomingwildlife #wyomignmigrationinitiative #deer665 #wyomingmuledeermigration #muledeer
It was a tough spring for arrowleaf balsamroots, but we still managed to find plenty of wildflowers between 6,000 and 7,500 feet last week. (And we did find one pocket of balsamroots that weren’t taken out by the late May snow!)
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#wyomingwildflowers #wildflowers #wyomingrange #bridgertetonnationalforest
If anything is deserving of a weekend of celebrating, it’s the Snake River!
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@snakeriverfest returns with live music, conservation, fishing, racing, stewardship projects, river education, and enough outdoor enthusiasts to make Patagonia stock spike.
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Whether you’re a kayaker, angler, river rat, or simply enjoy dramatically staring at moving water, there’s something on the schedule for you.
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Friday: Block Party at Phil Baux Park
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Saturday: Kids Fishing Day, The Big Race on the Hoback, Hoback Hoedown
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Sunday: Greys River BoaterX
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@snakeriverfund #bridgertetonnationalforest
As more hikers and horses are hitting the trail, remember that horses always have the right of way. The safest way to get out of their way is to communicate with the rider as soon as they come into view and to then move off the trail—on the downhill side if possible.
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Thanks to Teton Backcountry Horsemen for this sign at the Willow Creek Trailhead, and also for the updated trail signs they put up in the area back in 2024. The signs are still looking good!
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#wyominghiking #willowcreek #bridgertetonnationalforest #trailetiquette #respectotherusers tetonbackcountryhorsemen wyomingtrailriding publiclands nationalforests nationalforest publicland
Planning to explore the BTNF using anything with a motor? The Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) displays National Forest System roads and trails and areas designated as open to motorized travel. MVUMs also display allowed uses by vehicle class (ex. highway-legal vehicles, vehicles less than 50 inches wide and motorcycles), seasonal allowances, distance allowances, and provides information on other travel rules and regulations. Routes not shown on the MVUM are not open to public motor vehicle travel. Routes designated for motorized use may not always be signed on the ground but will be identified on the MVUM.
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It is the public’s responsibility to reference the MVUM for the area they’re in to stay on designated routes.
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Where do you get these maps? The link in our bio takes you to a BTNF webpage where you can download (for free) official MVUMs.
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#bridgertetonnationalforest #bridgertetonfriends #motorizedvehicleusemap #MVUM