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(FPI) Editors Mike Calabrese, Wade McKoy, Bob Woodall Copyright 2010 by Focus Productions, Inc., Photo Editor P.O. Box 1930, Jackson, Wyoming, 83001. Eric Rohr All rights reserved. Check out our magazines—the Jackson Hole Dining Guide, the Art Director No part of this publication may Jackson Hole Skier, and the Teton & Yellowstone Adventure Guide Janet Melvin be reproduced in any form without written —online at: Distribution Managers permission from the publishers. facebook.com/focusjh FPI Mountain Country Adventure Guide is a free focusproductions.com Advertising Sales visitor’s guide published annually in May and tetonadventureguide.com Nanci Montgomery, 307-699-1607 distributed all summer at hundreds of locations yellowstoneadventureguide.com Kyli Fox throughout Jackson Hole, Cody, West Yellowstone, Order magazines, pos ters, and photos online. Ike Faust Pinedale, Dubois, and other regional communities, For mail-order copies of the current set of three magazines, Bob Woodall, 307-733-6995 and at information centers throughout the Greater send $12 to FPI Magazines, [email protected] Yellowstone area. [email protected] P.O. Box 1930, Jackson, Wyoming 83001. Lower Falls, Yellowstone River, Yellowstone National Park The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Large, rugged, and wild, these lands beckon travelers to appreciate and protect By Bert Raynes Photos: Bob Woodall Young grizzly bear Pilot and Index peaks, Absaroka Mountains You’ve arrived in what is known as the Greater Yellowstone National Park, the world’s largest cold-water geyser near Afton, Ecosystem (GYE). It includes two national parks, seven national Wyoming, the impressive mountains throughout (with special atten - forests, numerous sections of Bureau of Land Management lands. tion to the Grand Tetons), the several national wildlife refuges, the There are wilderness areas, roadless areas, state lands too. It’s large scenic rivers, high-altitude Lake Yellowstone, the national forests. (18 million acres) and largely unfenced. Enjoy seeing wildlife, much of it at ease where hunting is not Whether this is your first visit or you’re revisiting Grand Teton allowed. Enjoy fishing and boating on placid lakes or on fast-flow - and Yellowstone national parks or the surrounding national forests ing rivers. Enjoy walking, hiking, climbing, and bird watching. or any gateway communities bordering the GYE, you will take Smell the flowers. Taste the air. Stomp the snow or play in it. home memories of the glorious natural wonders preserved for you These are your year-round public lands. in your public lands. Bird watcher, naturalist, and author, Bert Raynes has lived in Enjoy the world’s largest array of thermal features in Yellowstone Jackson Hole for almost 40 years. 2010 MOUNTAIN COUNTRY ADVENTURE GUIDE 5 GeeoNattioonal Gueorgraipshicm Society weighs in l l a d o o W b o B : s o t o h P A Yellowstone tour bus, circa 1930, departs Old Faithful Inn. Blue Star Spring and Beehive Geyser (above); Opalescent Pool (top left) In 1997 National Geographic senior editor Jonathan B. Tourtellot stone Ecosystem in a big way with the new Greater Yellowstone Ge - was asked for a term and concept more encompassing than “eco - otourism Center (GYGC) in downtown Driggs, Idaho. tourism” or “sustainable tourism.” So he and his wife, Sally Bensusen, “There is nothing else quite like it in the world,” says Teton Val - put their heads together and coined the term “geotourism.” ley Chamber of Commerce booster Julie Brian. The National Geographic Society (NGS) defines geotourism as Which is just what you’d expect from the National Geographic “tourism that sustains or enhances the geographical character of a Society. The site is not only a destination center for tourism, but an place—its environment, culture, aesthetics, heritage, and the well- educational facility as well, housing exhibits on the region’s geo - being of its residents.” logical origins, Native Americans, explorers, traders, mountain men, This concept with a conscience has come to the Greater Yellow - art, and culture. A roadside view in the Beartooth Mountains, looking down on Twin Lakes 6 MOUNTAIN COUNTRY ADVENTURE GUIDE 2010 l l a d o o W b o B : s o t o h P Near its headwaters, the Yellowstone River flows through the Thorofare, the most remote place in the Lower 48. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is one of the largest, intact temperate ecosystems in the world, still home to virtually all of the wildlife species en countered by Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery. y o K c M e d a W Fringed gentian Cascade Canyon and the Middle Teton with its black dike “The National Geographic Society is here for a reason,” says Region are highlighted: Bryan. “They saw the history, the beauty, the recreation, the wildlife— • One of the largest, intact temperate ecosystems in the world, still all that is worthy of preservation.” home to virtually all of the wildlife species encountered by Lewis and The GYGC also serves as anchor point of a newly designated sce - Clark’s Corps of Discovery nic loop highway, the Yellowstone-Grand Teton Loop Road. The route • Headwaters of four major river systems—the Missouri, the Yel - circumnavigates Grand Teton National Park and traverses some of lowstone, the Snake, and the Green—spawning renowned trout fish - Yellowstone Park’s top attractions. The Greater Yellowstone Region eries and clear waters Map Guide —free and loaded with local insight—highlights recre - • A core of public wild lands surrounding Yellowstone, the world’s ational and cultural opportunities, history, and other points of interest first national park, and the dramatic landscapes of the Tetons as it traces the 263-mile loop from Teton Valley, Idaho, north to West • A rich cultural tapestry rooted in Native American tribal heritage, Yellowstone, Montana, east into Yellowstone Park and Old Faithful, explorers, ranchers, farmers and miners, recreation, railroads, the Wild south to Grand Teton Park and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and then west West and the New West over Teton Pass, before finally culminating in Teton Valley. Check out the new geotourism center in Driggs, Idaho, and ask for The NGS community of geotourist places includes dozens of des - the free Greater Yellowstone Region Map Guide. You can also view ignations worldwide. The unique treasures of the Greater Yellowstone the interactive map online at www.yellowstonegeotourism.org — Mountain Country Adventure Guide www. yellowstoneadventureguide. com 8 MOUNTAIN COUNTRY ADVENTURE GUIDE 2010 ObBull bisonser ving Stories from Valley So Sweet WILDLIFE by Bert Raynes Great gray owl Photos by Henry H. Holdsworth, Wild By Nature Gallery Bert Raynes is a local, won him and the valley it - some say national, treas - self an army of loyalists. ure. Like Mardy Murie The following are ex - and the Craighead broth - cerpts from his book Valley ers, Bert has devoted him - So Sweet , available from self tirelessly to Raven any local bookstore. Buy celebrating the flora and the book. Bert and his val - fauna of the valley known as Jackson ley will appreciate it. — The Editors Hole. Its quiet majesty, its unspoiled beauty, and its perfectly balanced Welcome Back Summer ecosystem remained unthreatened until Today is the first day of summer. I take the advent of “civilization.” Bert rec - my clue from the western wood-pewee. ognized this threat many years ago. When that flycatcher returns and begins to Since then he has, through his books, call, it’s summer for me, no matter what the sun or calendar says.