Support the volunteers who maintain these trails: Star Valley Ranch Trail Crew!
The Star Valley Ranch Trail Crew is an all Volunteer organization dedicated to improving recreational trails on the Bridger-Teton National Forest and within our community. Our organization started work in 2015 and continues to grow and expand as we start our 10th year of operations. We currently have 87 volunteers who donate 1500 hours annually to build and maintain 12.5 miles of trail and 7 trailheads. Our crews work tirelessly to remove downed trees, add water bars for erosion control, brush, and limb to widen trail access, and improve trail/trailhead signage. In addition, we partner with AllTrails to help verify and improve the information provided on the App for the trails we maintain. Enjoy your hike!
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LoToJa is an annual cycling race between Logan, Utah and Teton Village, Wyoming. Started in 1983, today more than 1,000 cyclists—as individuals and as relay team members—participate. For most of the race, the riders go through the BTNF. (Not that most riders know this now, but which we want to make them aware of, along with all of the other great stuff on the BTNF, in the future.)
FBT board member Marshall Durston has completed the race twice as part of a relay team and uses it to raise money for FBT.
Many groups and causes use bike events as fundraisers. Marshall says “What a good marriage—to use a bike ride on roads that go across the Bridger-Teton National Forest, to raise money for a nonprofit that supports the Bridger-Teton National Forest.”
Starting this year, FBT joined the short list of official fundraising partners of LoToJa.
Read more about the FBT x LoToJa collab and how to get onto a FBT LoToJa relay team for next year in the link in our bio.
@lotojaclassic
On National Public Lands Day, Lakeside Lodge, which has operated on Fremont Lake since the 1930s (an early version of it is pictured here), issued a fun challenge to its guests: the lodge would match any of the donations guests made that day to Friends of the Bridger-Teton. The numbers are in and thanks to Lakeside Lodge and its guests, almost $600 was raised!
“We work very closely with the Forest Service since we’re on Forest Service land,” says Lakeside Lodge owner Audrey Odermann (with husband Kyle). “We appreciate the opportunity it provides us to make a living here and to meet some really great people and we appreciate all the work Friends of the Bridger-Teton does to make the BTNF accessible for locals and visitors. It benefits us all.”
Thanks Lakeside Lodge!
@lakesidelodgewy #lakesidelodgewy #fremontlake #bridgertetonnationalforest
A hint:
A creek below it was included in the Craig Thomas Snake Headwaters Legacy Act. This act, which was passed in 2009, added all or segments of 13 rivers and streams in the Snake River Headwaters to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. At that time, it was the largest Wild and Scenic designation by river miles ever.
#bridgertetonnationalforest #tuesdaytrivia
Indigenous people have stewarded the lands, waters, and wildlife of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, including the BTNF, since time immemorial.
The land now known as the BTNF has historical, cultural, and spiritual meanings to at least 24 associated tribes, including:
Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana
Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma
Comanche Nation, Oklahoma
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation
Crow Tribe of Montana
Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana
Kootenai Tribe of Idaho
Nez Perce Tribe
Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation
Annually, FBT helps BTNF staff with the Blackrock Field Camp. Founded in 2016, the two-day event has helped several hundred 4th and 5th graders from the Wind River Reservation develop and deepen their awareness of their ancestral and/or public lands; connect with and learn from elders of their tribes; foster a spirit of respect, interest, and appreciation for the natural world; learn skills ranging from deploying bear spray to using a cross-cut saw; and just have a day of fun outside.
#nationalindigenouspeoplesday
Where has your bear spray taken you?
While you hope to never have to use it, you never want to be out on the BTNF without bear spray, especially this time of year as bears are particularly active and aggressive in their search for food before they go into hibernation.
“She was coming at me, and her mouth was open, and I was able to get my bear spray out of the holster. And I shot it from the ground, holding it with both hands, like a gun or something, and sprayed like heck, and she turned around and left.”—hiker Maggie Schwartz on encountering a mom bear in the Teton Pass area of the BTNF’s Jackson Ranger District
Read more about Maggie’s encounter and how to dispose of expired bear spray in the links in our bio.
DM us with photos of where bear spray has taken you!
#bearaware #keepwildlifewild
LoToJa is an annual cycling race between Logan, Utah and Teton Village, Wyoming. Started in 1983, today more than 1,000 cyclists—as individuals and as relay team members—participate. For most of the race, the riders go through the BTNF. (Not that most riders know this now, but which we want to make them aware of, along with all of the other great stuff on the BTNF, in the future.)
FBT board member Marshall Durston has completed the race twice as part of a relay team and uses it to raise money for FBT.
Many groups and causes use bike events as fundraisers. Marshall says “What a good marriage—to use a bike ride on roads that go across the Bridger-Teton National Forest, to raise money for a nonprofit that supports the Bridger-Teton National Forest.”
Starting this year, FBT joined the short list of official fundraising partners of LoToJa.
Read more about the FBT x LoToJa collab and how to get onto a FBT LoToJa relay team for next year in the link in our bio.
@lotojaclassic
On National Public Lands Day, Lakeside Lodge, which has operated on Fremont Lake since the 1930s (an early version of it is pictured here), issued a fun challenge to its guests: the lodge would match any of the donations guests made that day to Friends of the Bridger-Teton. The numbers are in and thanks to Lakeside Lodge and its guests, almost $600 was raised!
“We work very closely with the Forest Service since we’re on Forest Service land,” says Lakeside Lodge owner Audrey Odermann (with husband Kyle). “We appreciate the opportunity it provides us to make a living here and to meet some really great people and we appreciate all the work Friends of the Bridger-Teton does to make the BTNF accessible for locals and visitors. It benefits us all.”
Thanks Lakeside Lodge!
@lakesidelodgewy #lakesidelodgewy #fremontlake #bridgertetonnationalforest
A hint:
A creek below it was included in the Craig Thomas Snake Headwaters Legacy Act. This act, which was passed in 2009, added all or segments of 13 rivers and streams in the Snake River Headwaters to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. At that time, it was the largest Wild and Scenic designation by river miles ever.
#bridgertetonnationalforest #tuesdaytrivia
Indigenous people have stewarded the lands, waters, and wildlife of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, including the BTNF, since time immemorial.
The land now known as the BTNF has historical, cultural, and spiritual meanings to at least 24 associated tribes, including:
Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana
Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma
Comanche Nation, Oklahoma
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation
Crow Tribe of Montana
Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana
Kootenai Tribe of Idaho
Nez Perce Tribe
Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation
Annually, FBT helps BTNF staff with the Blackrock Field Camp. Founded in 2016, the two-day event has helped several hundred 4th and 5th graders from the Wind River Reservation develop and deepen their awareness of their ancestral and/or public lands; connect with and learn from elders of their tribes; foster a spirit of respect, interest, and appreciation for the natural world; learn skills ranging from deploying bear spray to using a cross-cut saw; and just have a day of fun outside.
#nationalindigenouspeoplesday
Where has your bear spray taken you?
While you hope to never have to use it, you never want to be out on the BTNF without bear spray, especially this time of year as bears are particularly active and aggressive in their search for food before they go into hibernation.
“She was coming at me, and her mouth was open, and I was able to get my bear spray out of the holster. And I shot it from the ground, holding it with both hands, like a gun or something, and sprayed like heck, and she turned around and left.”—hiker Maggie Schwartz on encountering a mom bear in the Teton Pass area of the BTNF’s Jackson Ranger District
Read more about Maggie’s encounter and how to dispose of expired bear spray in the links in our bio.
DM us with photos of where bear spray has taken you!
#bearaware #keepwildlifewild