Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation

Nature mapping Jackson Hole program: a citizen science program with the goals of: 1)keeping common species common; 2)increasing citizen's knowledge of and appreciation for Wildlife in teton county, Wyoming; 3)engaging citizens in long-term Wildlife data collection; 4)informing management decisions that favor Wildlife sustainability; and 5)contributing data to the Wyoming game and fish department's Wildlife observation system to augment state data. Through nature mapping Jackson, we have recorded more than 103,523 Wildlife observations with more than 1,300 trained citizen scientists, over the years, since the program was established in 2009. In 2023, we trained 94 citizen scientists through 8 virtual and one-on-one training sessions. We banded 437 individual birds in 2023 at our monitoring avian productivity and survivorship (maps) bird banding stations. Our moose day project included 112 moose observations by 131 volunteers to supplement agency aerial surveys. Also, staff and 16 volunteers monitored 111 nest boxes via the mountain bluebird nestbox monitoring project.

Give Wildlife a brake: utilizing various mitigation tools, we aim to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions on our roadways. These tools include digital message boards, fixed radar speed feedback signs, speed limit reductions, Wildlife crossing structure planning. We also continue to compile the most comprehensive wildlife-vehicle collision report in the county to inform transportation planning and Wildlife conservation efforts. The 2021-2022 wildlife-vehicle collision (wvc) report was shared with agency partners and the public last year. These data were used in 2023 by our partners to guide planning and create possible ways to mitigate the effects of development and roads on Wildlife.

Wildlife friendlier fencing program: improving landscape permeability for migrating Wildlife through modification and removal of fences. Through 2023, we have improved more than 244 miles of fences to benefit Wildlife. In 2023, volunteers contributed 587 volunteer hours on 10 projects to improve 8.49 miles of fence. We work with many key agency partners and private landowners through this program.

Bear wise Jackson Hole: is a decades long partnership between Wyoming game and fish department, bridger-teton national forest, grand teton national park, and Jackson Hole Wildlife founation. We are a subsidiary of the bearwise Wyoming program. The goal of the program is to provide resources, outreach and coordination intended to keep bears wild and people safe. The program has been incredibly successful in terms of how many people we reached with bear safety/conflict reduction messaging and when we learned that teton county essentially cornered the market on bear resistant trash cans, we knew we had not only conveyed messaging, but that the messages led to human behavior changes. In one year, in 2023, we estimated reach to over 700,000 residents, businesses, and visitors.