Welcome
Live video feed from the
Trapper's Point Wildlife
Overpass webcam
Activity you may see in this cam
March/April: Path of the Pronghorn Thousands of pronghorn
and deer moving in large and small herds travel northerly
with spring green-up. See Video page for highlight clips.
June/July: Green River Drift northern cattle migration Upper
Green River Cattle Association ranchers will move cattle along
a 58-mile long cattle trail to get them from spring pasture on
the southern desert to summer pasture on the forest in the
Upper Green. Timing depends somewhat on the weather.
October: Green River Drift southerly cattle migration. Cattle
will “drift” back south, collecting in the sorting grounds to the
south of the overpass. Cowboys will sort the livestock by
brand to go to their home ranches. Weather influences timing
when things actually happen.
October/November: Path of the Pronghorn southerly
movement Thousands of pronghorn and deer in small and
large herds move to winter range further south in the Green
River drainage, crossing the overpass as they move through.
Camera View Note
It may take a minute or more for the live
image to first load due to the cell phone
and satellite connection and image
buffering - thank you for your patience!
The camera does a patrol every 3
minutes to switch between four position
views (north, south, east and west), and
may also be moved at any time by
webcam administrators monitoring the
camera activity. (If the screen view turns
black while you are watching, just move
your mouse a little bit over the cam
picture to bring back the view. Because
the live feed uses cell phone and satellite
links with the webcam, the server monitors
the viewer's mouse on the screen link and
will disconnect the connection to the live
view if it detects user inactivity in order to
save bandwidth and keep operating costs
down.)
The pronghorn and deer travel through in
small to large groups, and it may be
minutes to hours between them. The deer
often linger and eat while nearby. The
pronghorn tend to pass through fairly
quickly, moving together almost like a
school of fish, and frequently running
across the overpass. Herds may be seen
crossing over the bridge in both directions,
but in the spring mostly going north, and in
the fall mostly moving south. At times other
wildlife might also be seen on the overpass
bridge, as well as cattle during late spring
and fall when the Green River Drift occurs.
Pinedale Online becomes
new manager for the
Trapper’s Point Wildlife
Overpass webcam
Pinedale Online is pleased to become the
new manager of the Trapper's Point Wildlife
Overpass webcam as of April 1, 2016. We
are taking over from the Wildlife
Conservation Society (WCS) which is
wrapping up their Path of the Pronghorn
Interpretive Site project and grant funding.
Wildlife Conservation Society 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. 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.
WCS's project will be complete with the
ribbon cutting ceremony on April 13th for
the new interpretive site.
Pinedale Online is currently in the process
of learning the camera set up and making
adjustments, so please bear with us as we
continue to make some modifications over
the next several weeks to both the camera
view and this page. Since the system
operates using a cell phone and satellite
connection, bandwidth costs make it not
possible to allow the public to have access
to control this webcam to change the views.
The camera is made possible by technology
and maintenance by LiveView Technologies,
which operates and maintains many of the
WYDOT highway cams across Wyoming, as
well many other web cameras.
The Trapper's Point Wildlife Overpass
camera administrators include Pinedale
Online and wildlife biologists with 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
have access to the web camera in order
to not disrupt their studies of the
pronghorn movement patterns.
Webcam Video Highlights
Click on the links below to see recent
video hightlights from the Trapper’s
Point Wildlife Overpass webcam.
Please contact Pinedale Online for questions and information about becoming a sponsor for this web page:
307-360-7689 (call or text anytime) or email support@pinedaleonline.com, PO Box 2250, Pinedale, WY 82941.
These sponsors are helping to make the webcam data available for wildlife biologists to continue their
research of the pronghorn migration. Sponsorship is $100/month. Special first time sponsor rate of $50
for the first month. Call 307-360-7689 for more information about sponsoring, or email
support@pinedaleonline.com. Thank you!
It may take up to a minute or more for the cam to first load - thanks for your patience! This
camera uses a satellite and cell phone connection. It may be minutes to hours between herds
during migration times (spring/fall) - herds move through in both directions. If your screen
turns black while watching, move your mouse a little to reconnect. The camera moves to
programmed location settings every few minutes. Camera administrators may move camera
as well if logged in and monitoring camera view. Check the video highlights below and clips on
the Video page for action of animals crossing the wildlife overpass. The gates to the sorting
grounds and overpass are closed for cattle allotment purposes. Wildlife can still easily slip
through the gates. Views now are of single and small groups of 2-3 pronghorn going both
directions across the overpass. Gates will stay closed on the overpass to keep cattle off.