JHStyle Magazine Winter/Spring 2023-24
The premier resource for Jackson Hole WY residents and visitors, featuring restaurants, profiles on business leaders and local store owners, conservation efforts and skiing the backcountry.
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Trevor replicated Craighead’s 1971 study and<br />
book titled, “For Everything There is a Season:<br />
The Sequence of Natural Events in the Grand<br />
Teton-Yellowstone Area,” and found that so far,<br />
the onset of spring has advanced by 17 days. “The<br />
study is ongoing, and it has a citizen science project<br />
called ‘Wildflower Watch.’ Grand Teton National<br />
Park leads daily tours that include Wildflower<br />
Watch for visitors,” Trevor says. A documentary<br />
film on the study, “For Everything There Was a<br />
Season,” was released at premieres in the fall<br />
around the West, and Trevor plans to submit it to<br />
various film festivals.<br />
Another ongoing study is of cheatgrass, an invasive<br />
plant originally from Greece and Turkey with devastating<br />
ecological impacts to native wildlife — and<br />
for fire danger. Trevor’s study takes place on Saddle<br />
Butte behind the National Museum of Wildlife Art,<br />
where they have planted over 5,000 native plants<br />
and displays with information on the research, free<br />
and open to the public as part of the Greater Yellowstone<br />
Botanical Tour.<br />
The final study consists of 27 game cameras across<br />
Bridger-Teton National Forest lands along the<br />
greater Cache Creek and Snow King trail system to<br />
study human recreation impacts on wildlife behavior<br />
in critical habitat areas. “There’s a misconception<br />
that recreation is conservation, and that’s not<br />
true. We have a tremendous impact on the wildlife,”<br />
Trevor says. “So far we have a good coexistence<br />
here, but the study is ongoing, and a certain threshold<br />
of users may change that. So we hope this study<br />
will inform future decisions.” An avid recreationalist<br />
as well, Trevor tries to study the balance of<br />
mountain sports and wildlife conservation from a<br />
scientific perspective to benefit all sides.<br />
The passion and industriousness of Trevor, his<br />
team of wildlife guides, and his fellow researchers<br />
is an inspiration, and a continuation of the muchneeded<br />
voices that selflessly advocate for the<br />
ecosystem which makes this place special. “What<br />
needs to happen today to prevent the loss of this<br />
ecosystem in the face of intense human demand<br />
is a difficult question,” he says. “To create it was<br />
at the expense of people, and it will so be in the<br />
future, too. But we can go other places, and the<br />
wildlife that live here cannot.”<br />
To see Trevor’s latest documentary, “For Everything<br />
There Was a Season,” or schedule of film premieres<br />
and festivals, keep an eye on the “Exposure” page at<br />
GuidesofJacksonHole.com. n<br />
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