The Upper Snake watershed is the last, best, and largest watershed dominated by cutthroat trout remaining in the West, but the continuance of this status isn’t a given.
Thanks to the miracle of the Tetons, the landscapes here can make the greenest photographer’s pictures—even taken on a phone!—look like coffee-table book material.
A warden for the Jackson Region of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department logs long hours and has a job description that extends well beyond checking hunting tags and fishing licenses.
A depressed economy and natural disasters have persuaded more than 400,000 Puerto Ricans to leave their Caribbean island home since 2017. Some are making new lives for themselves in Jackson Hole.
You can’t approach an elk on foot without scaring it (and you shouldn’t because approaching large wildlife is illegal and dangerous). But you can take a horse-drawn sleigh ride into the middle of the herd wintering on the National Elk Refuge.
