Jedediah Smith Wilderness
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| Location: | Wyoming , United States | ||
| Specialty: | Karst landscape with caves in a wilderness without human intervention | ||
| Next city: | Jackson (Wyoming) | ||
| Surface: | 499.6 km² | ||
| Founding: | October 30, 1984 | ||
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The Jedediah Smith Wilderness is a protected area of the type of a Wilderness Area in the US state Wyoming , directly on the border with Idaho . The elongated area is located in the Rocky Mountains on the west flank of the Teton Range and has an area of almost 500 square kilometers. The sanctuary is named after Jedediah Smith , a trapper , fur trader, and explorer who became the first white man to explore parts of the Rocky Mountains in the 1820s.
In the north the Wilderness borders on Yellowstone National Park , in the east on Grand Teton National Park , in the south it extends as far as the Teton Pass . The area belongs to Targhee National Forest , a National Forest and by the United States Forest Service manages.
description
The reserve was established in 1984 to protect the karst landscape with bizarre limestone formations and caves . As a wilderness area there is no tourist or other infrastructure, there are no roads and paths are only maintained sporadically. Permitted uses are trekking and trail riding , and fishing within strict conditions .
As a wilderness area in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is the Jedediah Smith Wilderness habitat and refuge for large mammals such as black bear , grizzly bear , bighorn sheep , wolverine , moose and elk .
Web links
- Official website at wilderness.net