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Cokeville Meadows NWR wet meadow on a summers afternoon with a thunderstorm rolling in.
Ku'i-o-ga or Bear River

Cokeville Meadows National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding lands are part of the ancestral homelands of the Shoshoni tribes. Crow bands also frequented the area as well, according to old trapper journals. The Bear River was known in the Goshiute dialect of the Shoshoni language as Ku'i-o-ga, ku'i-o'gwa, or Kwi'o-gwa. (Chamberlin, 1913 -taken from shoshoniproject.utah.edu) The Bear River or Ku'i-o-ga runs through portions of the refuge and supplies most of the water that irrigates the wetlands and wet meadow habitats of the refuge.

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Cokeville National Wildlife Refuge Office

Refuge is managed as part of a complex, main headquarters is Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge.

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Katie Theule
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Tom Koerner
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