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High Desert Museum Has Full Slate of Programs for the New Year

Cascade Business News 30 Dec 2021
Photo courtesy of High Desert Museum). Greetings from the High Desert Museum! As we turn the page on 2021, we look forward to exciting events and new exhibits around the corner in January ... High Desert Natural History ... High Desert Hooves ... Mammals with hooves, such as mule deer and pronghorn, are some of the most iconic species in the High Desert.
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December at the High Desert Museum

Cascade Business News 30 Nov 2021
The High Desert Museum has exciting events this holiday season, including new exhibits and after-hours openings ... Winter can be a cold, dark time in the High Desert ... Learn what life was like for those who settled in the High Desert ... Mammals with hooves, such as mule deer and pronghorn, are some of the most iconic species in the High Desert.
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Wyoming race takes distance runners off road in Red Desert

The Lufkin News 10 Oct 2021
All three Run the Red races started and finished in South Pass City, a gold rush ghost town now managed by Wyoming State Parks, situated just east of the Red Desert ...That’s when you feel that essence of the desert ... The Red Desert is home to rich sage grouse habitat and the longest mule deer migration corridor in the lower 48 states.
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A remote Red Desert race is growing support for one of Wyoming's most unique landscapes

Billings Gazette 04 Oct 2021
All three Run the Red races started and finished in South Pass City, a gold rush ghost town now managed by Wyoming State Parks, situated just east of the Red Desert ...That’s when you feel that essence of the desert ... The Red Desert is home to rich sage grouse habitat and the longest mule deer migration corridor in the lower 48 states ... Red Desert.
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October at the High Desert Museum

Cascade Business News 30 Sep 2021
Courtesy of the High Desert Museum) ... A quieter time for children and adults who experience physical, intellectual and/or social disabilities to enjoy the High Desert Museum after hours ... High Desert Hooves* ... Mammals with hooves, such as mule deer and pronghorn, are some of the most iconic species in the High Desert.
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Wyoming researcher taking wildlife mapping tech worldwide

Herald-Standard 16 May 2021
The Red Desert-to-Hoback mule deer migration is a great example,” Kauffman said ... explicitly for 4,000 to 5,000 migrating mule deer.”. The Red Desert-to-Hoback mule deer migration also went on to become the first migration route recognized and protected by the state of Wyoming.
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Critter atlas aims to conserve migration routes

Missoulian 16 May 2021
In the case of mule deer following the 150-mile Hoback-Red Desert migration in Wyoming, one deer never strayed more than 300 meters from its route, year after year ... In the Hoback-Red Desert example, understanding where the mule deer went prompted the federal government to remove ...
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A corporation wants to mine for gold near Death Valley. Native tribes are fighting it

Finger Lakes Times 21 Mar 2021
... cultural sites, roads cut through deer migration corridors, and the water required for mining gold ... Among the species bound to the mesa’s crags, crevices and piñon pines are bighorn sheep, bobcats, coyotes, deer, desert night lizards, barn owls and Townsend’s long-eared bats.
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Wildlife movements offer window on climate change effects

News-Press Now 28 Nov 2020
"Whether you're looking at polar bears in the Arctic trying to find enough sea ice, or on the high desert of Wyoming where maybe the rain didn't fall during the spring mule deer migration, we have a lot to learn about how animals migrate and what that means for us in a changing world," Skroch said.
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Wildlife movements warn of climate change

Missoulian 14 Nov 2020
“Whether you’re looking at polar bears in the Arctic trying to find enough sea ice, or on the high desert of Wyoming where maybe the rain didn’t fall during the spring mule deer migration, we have a lot to learn about how animals migrate and what that means for us in a changing world,” Skroch said.
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New maps document big-game migrations across the western United States

Phys Dot Org 12 Nov 2020
For example, the mapping and official designation of Wyoming's 150-mile Red Desert as part of the Hoback mule deer migration corridor enabled science-based conservation and management decisions ... "Just like Wyoming, Nevada has long valued our mule deer migrations," said Tony Wasley, director of the Nevada Department of Wildlife.
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Conservation groups call for $25 billion in federal funding for public land restoration

Billings Gazette 26 May 2020
, advocates also proposed using the economic recovery programs to strengthen safeguards for critical wildlife corridors, like building highway overpasses along the Red Desert-to-Hoback mule deer migration corridor ... Wyoming is home to roughly 400,000 mule deer and about half the world’s pronghorn antelope.
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Yellowstone to Uintas Connection

CounterPunch 15 May 2020
In 2013, a second ungulate migration corridor—a 160-mile long mule deer migration corridor from the Red Desert to the Hoback Basin, roughly parallel to the pronghorn corridor—was discovered ... It turns out that ancient mule deer and pronghorn migration routes once extended south of ...
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Migration routes are an energy, environmental balancing act

Independent Record 26 Jan 2020
Mule deer on the Red Desert to Hoback Migration Route ... In the past few years, the agency announced three migration corridors — Baggs, Platte Valley and Sublette, also known as the Red Desert-to-Hoback ... Mule deer on the Red Desert to Hoback Migration Route ... Research has confirmed just how faithful a mule deer will remain to the same migration route.
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Report says Grand Teton one of most threatened parks

Record Delta 15 Oct 2019
The Red Desert-to-Hoback Mule Deer Migration — the first route ever designated by Wyoming — leads deer from as far south as Interstate 80 along the southwest slope of the Wind River Range into Bridger-Teton National Forest land southeast of Teton Park.
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