Jackson Hole Preserve
Jackson Hole Preserve, Incorporated is non-profit conservation organization whose primary mission is the conservation ethic applied to natural areas.
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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.
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- Conservation and environmental foundations in the United States
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Environmental organizations based in Wyoming
- Environmental organizations established in 1940
- 1940 establishments in the United States
- 1940s in Wyoming
- Grand Teton National Park
- United States organization stubs