Aug 21, 2026 · 29 min · 13 segments
The KHOL newsroom reacts alongside Jackson voters and the rest of Wyoming to a somewhat surprising primary election full of upsets and landslides. A curious creature found in the high alpine can be a…
But to count all the important animals takes money and staff that the state doesn't have.
As temperatures rise with climate change, the search for one particularly heat-sensitive species relies on help from volunteers.
Rachel Dunlop picks her way to the top of a scree field in a sweatsuit and gloves.
It's not just a nice little hiking trail that [laughs] you can just hop onto.
The neuroscience and wildlife photographer steps carefully, sometimes butt-scooting in the large rock talus.
It takes an hour to reach coordinates from the state and set up a monitoring quadrant.
Get down.
It's a bit foggy today, which is gonna make it difficult.
Um, but we can go down and have a look anyway.
Wyoming is approaching the end of one of its warmest summers following one of its warmest winters on record.
But it's just rained for two days straight on Teton Pass, almost 8,000 feet up.
So I brought a sheet for me and a sheet for you if you want to-
This site is tucked below a sharp switchback near the top of the pass in the slide path of Mount Glory, where avalanches run in the winter.
Dunlop is one of a few volunteers with the Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation.
This summer's cohort started working with the state last year to trek sometimes more than 10 miles one way to wait in silence, looking for poop and listening for squeaks of a rock-camouflaged rabbit cousin.
Aha, hear that? [laughs] That's a pika.
Pika.
That's an alarm call.
So we have our first pika of the morning.
Do you think it's, it's worried about us? So, um, I'm not an expert, but my understanding of that call, the kind of chirping call, is that it can be an alarm call or it could be a mating call.
I'm not sure.
[laughs] But-
Pika spend summers stuffing their cheeks with stems and flower petals to store in piles to last the winter, when they're still awake.
But to count all the important animals takes money and staff that the state doesn't have.
As temperatures rise with climate change, the search for one particularly heat-sensitive species relies on help from volunteers.
Rachel Dunlop picks her way to the top of a scree field in a sweatsuit and gloves.
It's not just a nice little hiking trail that [laughs] you can just hop onto.
The neuroscience and wildlife photographer steps carefully, sometimes butt-scooting in the large rock talus.
It takes an hour to reach coordinates from the state and set up a monitoring quadrant.
Get down.
It's a bit foggy today, which is gonna make it difficult.
Um, but we can go down and have a look anyway.
Wyoming is approaching the end of one of its warmest summers following one of its warmest winters on record.
But it's just rained for two days straight on Teton Pass, almost 8,000 feet up.
So I brought a sheet for me and a sheet for you if you want to-
This site is tucked below a sharp switchback near the top of the pass in the slide path of Mount Glory, where avalanches run in the winter.
Dunlop is one of a few volunteers with the Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation.
This summer's cohort started working with the state last year to trek sometimes more than 10 miles one way to wait in silence, looking for poop and listening for squeaks of a rock-camouflaged rabbit cousin.
Aha, hear that? [laughs] That's a pika.
Pika.
That's an alarm call.
So we have our first pika of the morning.
Do you think it's, it's worried about us? So, um, I'm not an expert, but my understanding of that call, the kind of chirping call, is that it can be an alarm call or it could be a mating call.
I'm not sure.
[laughs] But-
Pika spend summers stuffing their cheeks with stems and flower petals to store in piles to last the winter, when they're still awake.
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