Elk migrate through Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains. While the public lands high country provides crucial range for wapiti in three seasons, lower-elevation private land functions as crucial winter range and as passageways between the mountains. The epic wildlife migrations of Greater Yellowstone, like those in the Bighorns, cannot endure without the goodwill of private landowners whose contributions need to be recognized and rewarded.  Photo courtesy Gregory Nickerson/Wyoming Migration Initiative/University of Wyoming
Elk migrate through Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains. While the public lands high country provides crucial range for wapiti in three seasons, lower-elevation private land functions as crucial winter range and as passageways between the mountains. The epic wildlife migrations of Greater Yellowstone, like those in the Bighorns, cannot endure without the goodwill of private landowners whose contributions need to be recognized and rewarded. Photo courtesy Gregory Nickerson/Wyoming Migration Initiative/University of Wyoming