Jackson Hole Preserve

Jackson Hole Preserve, Incorporated is non-profit conservation organization whose primary mission is the conservation ethic applied to natural areas.

History

The Jackson Hole Preserve organization was founded in 1940 by Laurance Rockefeller.^[1] In 1943 it protected land, now in Grand Teton National Park, as a nature preserve originally known as the Jackson Hole Preserve and later the Jackson Hole Wildlife Park.

Laurance Rockefeller also purchased and donated 5,000 acres (20 km²) of land on Saint John island in the United States Virgin Islands, to the U.S. National Park Service to create Virgin Islands National Park.

See also

• Rockefeller Foundation

References

External links

• NPS.gov: Grand Teton National Park — History of the Jackson Hole Preserve & Jackson Hole Wildlife Park

This article about an organization in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This page was last edited on 9 September 2018, at 15:46