TRAPPER'S POINT
WILDLIFE OVERPASS
WEBCAM SPONSORS

Thank you to these sponsors for helping with the expenses of this camera which supports
the pronghorn and deer wildlife migration research efforts.

Cost for a sponsorship ad is $100/month.
Your sponsorship helps keep the camera going for researchers and wildlife biologists who are using it to monitor the pronghorn and deer movement patterns across the overpass and through the Upper Green River Valley. Thank you!

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About the Trapper's Point
Wildlife Overpass Webcam

Pinedale Online took over as managers of the Trapper's Point Wildlife Overpass webcam on April 1, 2016. We are proud to be able to help continue to make this webcam available to wildlife researchers and for public viewing. The webcam allows researchers to learn more about the seasonal movement patterns of big game wildife in the Upper Green River Valley, as well as offering people from all over the world a chance to observe these animals in real time through a live video feed. We welcome suggestions from researchers and interested persons on ways to make the camera more beneficial and to help educate the public on conservation, well-thought out land-use development to accommodate multiple uses, wildlife management challenges and opportunities, and non-disruptivel wildlife viewing practices.

The Trapper's Point Wildlife Overpass camera administrators include Pinedale Online and wildlife biologists with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The camera view may change out of the programmed patrol sequence at times by administrators who are controlling the camera. It is important to allow wildlife biologists and researchers to continue to access the camera in order to not disrupt their studies of the pronghorn movement patterns.

The webcam was originally installed as part of a project by the Wildlife Conservation Society to bring attention to the migration pathway many pronghorn take to reach summer range in Grand Teton National Park. Each year, approximately 300-400 pronghorn from the larger herd make the trek all the way from the Red Desert to the Park and back again, a pathway that has been named the Path of the Pronghorn.

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) researchers have been studying the Path of the Pronghorn since 2003. In 2008 the Path of the Pronghorn became the first federally designated migration corridor. Years of field research by WCS were pivotal in the effort to designate the first and only federal migration corridor in the U.S. Further, this research helped inform the Wyoming Department of Transportation of the optimal locations for installing wildlife crossings and fencing to protect the migration and drivers. The live web camera installed on the overpass provides the public with a real-time look at activity on the overpass and gives researchers additional information about the timing and numbers of wildlife movement patterns.

Wildlife Webcam and Duck Creek Interpretive Pullout
Few people have opportunities to see and appreciate the value of seasonal wildlife migrations. The Trappers Point Wildlife Overpass webcam provides a unique opportunity for the public to directly observe pronghorn and other species moving across the overpass. WCS has partnered with many other organizations to design and install an informative interpretive site along US 191 approximately a mile east of the overpass that provides information about the pronghorn migration and the infrastructure investments that have been made to conserve these migratory movements. The ribbon cutting for this interpretive site will be on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 5:30PM.

The wildlife overpass bridge at Trapper's Point over U.S. 191 is part of a larger project done by the Wyoming Department of Transportation. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) helped identify intersections between pronghorn migration corridors and US 191 where under and overpasses with fencing could guide pronghorn safely across the road and reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions between pronghorn and motorists. In 2010, the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) used this information, along with complimentary data from Wyoming Game and Fish Department and other researchers, to invest $9.7 million along US 191 to install fencing and crossing structures to protect both wildlife and highway travelers. In the fall of 2012, 8 wildlife crossing structures and 23 kilometers of fencing were completed along a 12-mile stretch of highway. A second wildlife overpass bridge is located about five miles north of the Daniel Junction. Wildlife biologists have cameras at some of these locations. WCS is currently studying the effects of the structures and the adaptations of the pronghorn at Trapper’s Point in order to utilize lessons learned in other crucial wildlife road crossing locations around the world.

WCS Path of the Pronghorn Project Partners
Many people worked together to help WCS on the Trappers Point Path of the Pronghorn project including the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, Water for Wildlife, National Parks Conservation Association, Wyoming Department of Transportation, Pinedale Travel and Tourism Commission, Upper Green River Alliance, Grand Teton National Park, Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc., Green River Valley Land Trust, Bureau of Land Management, and Wyoming Office of Tourism.

For more information about this camera and the Path of the Pronghorn research projects, please visit the Wildlife Conservation Society website:

Wildlife Conservation Society

Communication for the Trapper's Point Wildlife Overpass webcam is provided by Live View Technologies in Orem, Utah. The camera has pan, zoom and tilt capabilities and operates with cell phone and satellite technology powered by solar panels. LiveView also administers many of the Wyoming WYDOT highway webcams.

Liveviewtech.com

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