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Keep track of all the wildlife you see at 3 Creek
Ranch.
Click these links for checklists of mammals
and birds that make
their homes in the Jackson Hole area. You’ll be amazed at
the variety of species just outside your door.
Monday February 4 2008
I am always enthralled by the familiar sight of a set of small animal tracks in the snow around the Nature Center, a perfect pattern of two-by-two footprints, the prints slightly off-set and as consistent a pattern as if machine-made to exactness. The long-tailed weasel, thin as a ribbon with a pointed nose like an arrow-head, is a small beautiful mammal entirely adapted to its environment. First consider the annual change in its sleek fur coat. (more)
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