), after wandering in the woods and sage for hours, my friends Sarah and John and I came out empty-handed at 5am. The antlers are stored in several locations, displacing refuge equipment and storage space for employees. Game and Fish will be seeking a fix, he said.“We’ll talk internally in the Game and Fish Department, and then visit with the commission about it at some point,” Gocke said. That’s a challenge the National Elk Refuge has grappled with for years. But the 12-hour gap created a unique challenge in Jackson Hole and particularly east of the refuge, where hundreds of people dash to find scores of antlers in a matter of hours. We watched them through binoculars, and Andrew explained how to tell which were bucks, even after they’d dropped antlers and hadn’t begun to regrow a bigger set.

ElkFest and the annual Jackson District Boy Scout elk antler auction has been postponed. We stopped and had a few snacks. I imagined the life of a deer here, and thought how tough it must be for the Jackson deer, where the snow was much, much deeper. One end of the refuge is located near the Jackson Visitor Center.

More miles and steeper hiking had me again immersed in imagining the life of all the animals, from the prey to the predators, and all the drama that happened, out of view of our coddled, modern human existence.In a sunny meadow near the bottom of a steep drainage, we found a bachelor hangout. Each year on April 30, a stream of cars forms around Jackson Hole’s Town Square, waiting to drive across the National Elk Refuge lands to the border of the National Forest, where wintering wildlife protective closures end at midnight on May 1. Andrew, ecstatic, launched a search in the vicinity but we found no more. In a best-case scenario, their prey is an old carcass. It’s a different nature than you experience if you are out on, say, a ski tour. Winter is ski season. Mountain View resident Skeeter Aimone said he witnessed multiple fist fights — “straight-up drag outs” — over who had the right to antlers left on the ground before noon, since they couldn’t legally be possessed.“The new regulations, they’re not going to work,” Aimone said. Mark Gordon made the same recommendation, under the guise of a directive — an unenforceable one — that instructed people crossing state lines before May 8 to quarantine themselves for 14 days. This includes Winter Sleigh Rides, Naturalist-led Wildlife Excursions, and Feathered Fridays.

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Note however, that public restrooms, including vault toilets, are closed. Hunting is a refuge management tool to help reach population numbers identified in the Bison and Elk Management Plan (2007).


He pointed out the signs indicating where they had chosen to bed at night, where they had been eating the plants, and where they liked to hang out so they can be in the best position to detect and evade any predators, from humans to wolves. Although most refuge lands and outdoor spaces have remained open for the public to enjoy, we encourage you to:

This time he’d scoped out some bigger terrain, in the same vicinity, and we hoped for elk antlers. Prior to 1912 elk migrated through this area for centuries. We went up a hillside, down a hillside, and along ridges, crunching in the sparse snow cover.

The Refuge itself remains open from sunrise to sunset.

By Mike Koshmrl Teton County law enforcement officers, who corral the shed hunters every spring, echoed that request over social media and in advertisements for weeks leading up to the hunt.Driving the concern was COVID-19, which has hit Teton County worse on a per-capita basis than anywhere else in Wyoming. Shed hunting in the refuge itself is illegal, but when the clock strikes midnight on May 1, the adjacent Bridger-Teton National Forest is fair game.

The community event, previously scheduled to be held May 16, 2020, has officially been postponed due to COVID-19 public health safety measures, which limit large public gatherings and recommend social distancing.

Orme has been coming to the antler hunt for 15 years, but this was Cutler’s first time. But, I learned later that shed hunting is about much more than the shed.

New rules this year mandated that no one was allowed to touch or collect antlers until noon Friday, so many hunters went out and sat by their finds until then.Lynzee Lewis, left, laughs with Tyler Howard, right, and their friends while resting on their truck after returning from a long day of antler hunting Friday afternoon.

Via Wyoming News Exchange That’s what was cool.”While meeting in March, the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission pushed the start time to noon, out of concern for wardens working through the night and the difficulty of enforcement in the darkness.Their intent, Gocke said, was “good” and may make sense for other parts of western Wyoming, where vast areas of federal land aren’t entirely closed to public access through the winter months.

Over coffee and eggs at sunrise in a kitchen full of tired friends, I was reminded once again that while finding the antlers is nice, it is more about connecting to nature and friends that makes the hunt worthwhile. Before framing began, local Boy Scout Nathan Watson assisted Kevin Anderson, a scout leader and owner of Four Corners Concrete, Inc. in prepping and pouring the pad that forms the shed floor for his Eagle Scout service project.Because IBEW Local 322 represents carpenters, painters, mechanics and other wage workers at Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Park in addition to inside electricians and linemen, the 35-40 volunteers who built the shed brought a diversity of skills and equipment to the project, and NECA contractors graciously donated the material to wire the structure.Jack Shinkle, Historic Preservation Carpenter for the National Park Service, served as the advisor for the construction while Steve LaRosa, Heavy Equipment Operator for the National Park Service, handled logistics, job assignments and safety.In addition to benefiting the National Elk Refuge and local Boy Scout troops, the new shed “is a way to showcase that union people are sportsmen and do care about the outdoors,” said Johnson, who explained that he often uses the outdoors as a way to reach across boundaries and find common ground with non-union electricians.“This refuge would not get along without volunteers.

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