Winegar Hole Wilderness
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Winegar Hole Wilderness
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Winegar Hole Wilderness is a federally protected wilderness area in Wyoming along the Wyoming-Idaho border, between Yellowstone and Grand Teton and within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Congress designated it as wilderness in 1984 largely to protect prime grizzly bear habitat, and it remains undeveloped with no roads or buildings and no logging, mining, or motorized or mechanized travel. Camping and fishing are allowed with permits, and hunting is permitted in season. Its name also preserves early settlement history tied to Stephen Winegar and his sons, who built a log shelter nearby in 1879, and to a Snake River cliff carving dated June, 1882.
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