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The homes on Mormon Row are deserted. Their walls bow and their roofs droop. Bison wander the empty rooms.<br />
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There is one exception to the decay: a small, white-clapboard home with a carefully clipped lawn and meticulously tended garden. The Moulton family gathers here every Memorial Day weekend. They crowd around a kitchen table stacked high with binders. Each contains photographs, newspaper clippings, magazine articles and other assorted mementos. All concern what the Moultons simply refer to as “the barn.”...
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The homes on Mormon Row are deserted. Their walls bow and their roofs droop. Bison wander the empty rooms.

There is one exception to the decay: a small, white-clapboard home with a carefully clipped lawn and meticulously tended garden. The Moulton family gathers here every Memorial Day weekend. They crowd around a kitchen table stacked high with binders. Each contains photographs, newspaper clippings, magazine articles and other assorted mementos. All concern what the Moultons simply refer to as “the barn.”...

Teton NP

  • "Static Peak In the Teton Range north of Death Canyon. Named because it is often hit by lightning.<br />
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Buck Mountain Named for George A. Buck, recorder for T.M. Bannon’s 1898 mapping party. Bannon gave the name "Buck Station" to the triangulation station he and George Buck established on the summit in 1898.<br />
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Grand Teton Highest mountain in the Teton Range. Named by French trappers. Upon viewing the Teton Range from the west, the trappers dubbed the South, Middle, and Grand, Les Trois Tetons, meaning ”the three breasts.” Wilson Price Hunt called them ”Pilot Knobs” in 1811 because he had used them for orientation while crossing Union Pass. In his Journal of a Trapper, Osborne Russel said that the Shoshone Indians named the peaks ”Hoary Headed Fathers.”<br />
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Mount Owen Northeast of the Grand Teton. Named for W.O. Owen, who climbed the Grand Teton in 1898 with Bishop Spalding, John Shive, and Frank Petersen.<br />
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Teewinot Towers above Cascade Canyon and Jenny Lake. Its name comes from the Shoshone word meaning ”many pinnacles.” Teewinot probably once applied to the entire Teton Range, rather than just this one peak. Fritiof Fryxell and Phil Smith named the peak when they successfully completed the first ascent of the mountain in 1929.<br />
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Mount Saint John Between Cascade and Paintbrush canyons. A series of peaks of nearly equal height. Named for Orestes St. John, geologist of Hayden’s 1877 survey, whose monographs of the Teton and Wind River ranges are now classics.<br />
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Mount Moran Most prominent peak in the northern end of the Teton Range. Named by Ferdinand V. Hayden for the landscape artist Thomas Moran, who traveled with the 1872 Hayden expedition into Yellowstone and into Pierre’s Hole on the western side of the Teton Range. He produced many sketches and watercolors from these travels.
  • Moose are often spotted in Cascade Canyon and along the banks of the Snake River.
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  • Pronghorn, due to their unique biology, don’t generally jump fences like elk or deer. They crawl under them. Pronghorn evolved in the Pleistocene when they were prey for speedy cheetahs and hyenas. Thus the pronghorn’s current status as the fastest land animal in North America is, in the words of pronghorn researcher John A. Byers, a “ghost of (these) predators past.” With an ability to run at 30 mph indefinitely with top speeds pushing 60 mph, they simply outran everything.<br />
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So as populous as pronghorn appear in many places in the west, they are strangely ill-adapted to the modern world where private lands, and many public lands, are fragmented by fences and development. These “new threats” not only restrict their greatest asset to escape predators but also their ability to migrate over long distances required to find adequate snow-free habitat and forage.<br />
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Our national parks are integral parts of a larger landscape and are deeply connected and vital to the health of surrounding wild lands and gateway communities. In the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, Yellowstone National Park’s 2.2 million acres serve as the core for a diversity of wildlife species that spend part of the year inside the park. As wildlife move from one place to another they do not distinguish between state, federal and private land; they go where there is habitat. Conserving pronghorn migration on public and private lands outside of the Yellowstone National Park offers the last best hope for this iconic species.<br />
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  • Yellowstone and Grand Teton bison herds are prolific and multiply rapidly, range biologists say that Yellowstone can handle about 3,000 bison and Grand Teton Park can handle 600. One of the bison's few natural predators is the wolf. Wolves will usually prey on the females and calves and will rarely attack healthy bulls. It is doubtful that wolves could ever control growth of the bison herd to a level that would keep the ecosystem in balance.
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  • Grand Teton National Park inspires your sense of wonder. Magnificent mountains tower over a valley bisected by the Snake River. This beautiful valley, overlooked on the western edge by an impressive skyline, is known as Jackson Hole. The Teton Range dominates the landscape of the park.<br />
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The range began rising about 10 million years ago. Numerous earthquakes, up to a magnitude 7.5, released tension along the Teton fault building the mountains one step at a time. Each large earthquake breaks the ground by about ten feet dropping the valley floor three to four times as much as the mountains rise. The Grand Teton at 13,770 feet, towers about 7,000 feet above the valley floor suggesting the offset across the fault is up to 30,000 feet. The lack of foothills is due to the presence of the Teton fault.<br />
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Erosion fills the valley and carves the range crest forming the jagged Teton skyline. The rugged terrain and lack of foothills allures outdoor enthusiasts of all types to visit this area. Climbers summit at least 12 peaks in the Teton Range over 12,000 feet high with varying degrees of difficulty.
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  • The homes on Mormon Row are deserted. Their walls bow and their roofs droop. Bison wander the empty rooms.<br />
<br />
There is one exception to the decay: a small, white-clapboard home with a carefully clipped lawn and meticulously tended garden. The Moulton family gathers here every Memorial Day weekend. They crowd around a kitchen table stacked high with binders. Each contains photographs, newspaper clippings, magazine articles and other assorted mementos. All concern what the Moultons simply refer to as “the barn.”...
  • Offering incredible westward views of the Grand Tetons through the high plains in western Wyoming, Antelope Flats Road runs east to west through sagebrush flats. It's not unusual to spot wildlife such as bison, antelope and moose along this six-mile stretch.
  • This scenic, 3-mile loop tours a wide range of ecosystems in the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve, a 1,106-acre ranch donated to Grand Teton National Park and opened to the public in June 2008. From the parking area, follow a winding gravel path through a sagebrush meadow and past an aspen grove to the visitor center—step inside the center to view multimedia exhibits on the preserve.<br />
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 From here, the trail winds through forests of lodgepole pine, Douglas fir, and blue spruce, and parallels Lake Creek. Listen for the high-pitched cries of elk, and watch for deer and Clark's nutcrackers. After 1.5 miles, the path traces the southern shore of Phelps Lake, offering spectacular views of the Tetons and the lake, before turning south for the trip back to the trailhead.
  • The Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve is located four miles south of Moose on the Moose-Wilson Road. The Preserve provides a special opportunity to connect with nature in an environment designed to reduce congestion and provide an opportunity for solitude and reflection. Explore the network of trails leading to Phelps Lake through mature forests and aspen groves. Continue south along the Moose-Wilson Road to reach Teton Village for opportunities to view wildlife. This slow, winding road is closed to RVs and trailers and is unpaved for 1.5 miles.
  • The T.A. Moulton Barn is all that remains of the homestead built by Thomas Alma Moulton and his sons between about 1912 and 1945. It sits west of the road known as Mormon Row, in an area called Antelope Flats, between the towns of Kelly and Moose. It is near the homestead of Andy Chambers. The property with the barn was one of the last parcels sold to the National Park Service by the Moulton family. Often photographed, the barn with the Teton Range in the background has become a symbol of Jackson Hole.
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