Blackfeet Reservation (Ceded Strip)

The Nitsitapii (“real people”), collectively called the Blackfoot, comprise three distinct groups: the Blackfoot or Siksika, the Blood or Kainai, and Piegan or Piikani. The collective use of the names Blackfoot in Canada and Blackfeet in the United States developed ...

Yellowstone Law Enforcement at Fort Yellowstone Historic District

Crimes committed in Yellowstone National Park are federal offenses, and as outlined in the Organic Act, the General Authorities Act, and the definition of Special Territorial and Maritime Jurisdiction, NPS park rangers and special agents have the authority and responsibility ...

Bridger-Teton National Forest

The Bridger-Teton National Forest is 3.4 million acres and is adjacent to both Grand-Teton National Park and the National Elk Refuge. The Bridger-Teton has three nationally dedicated wilderness areas, which include the Bridger Wilderness, the Gros Ventre Wilderness and the ...

National Elk Refuge

In 1912, public interest in the survival of the Jackson elk herd instigates the creation of the National Elk Refuge. Today the refuge continues to preserve most of the remaining elk winter range in the valley, approximately one-quarter of the ...

Jenny Lake Ranger Station

In the 1930s, the park’s first ranger station and museum opened in a rustic cabin. The cabin was originally Lee Manges’ homestead cabin and was transported to the south shore of Jenny Lake from near today’s Windy Point Turnout. This ...

Animals at Chicken Creek

There is no resident fish population in the monument. Occasionally, when Chicken Creek flows, one or two species may briefly enter the monument from downstream sources.

In 2003, the National Park Service and Wyoming Game and Fish Department conducted ...

Main Body (Wasatch Formation)

This unit of the Wasatch Formation is that part of the formation which produces the

spectacular red-colored badlands in Fossil Butte National Monument. Particularly typical exposures can be seen in the south facing scarp of Fossil Butte where the ...

Wasatch Formation

The sediments that make up the Wasatch Formation in the Fossil Basin were deposited mainly by streams flowing into the basin from the surrounding uplands. Rock types are variable and for the most part individual types cannot be traced ...

Green River Formation

Although oil shale is not extensively developed in the Green River Formation of Fossil Basin, it does occur in small quantities. Oil shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock containing organic matter which was derived chiefly from aquatic organisms, waxy ...

Green River Formation (Historic Quarry)

Three ancient great lakes existed in the region of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado 50 million years ago: Lake Gosiute, Lake Uinta, and Fossil Lake, the smallest. All are gone today, but they left behind a wealth of fossils in ...