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A group of 16 young people from the Wind River Reservation spent a weekend in Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks at the start of September. They were with Indigenous Youth Voices, a group focused on empowering young people through experimental education and building connections to ancestral and traditional culture.
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Biologists will be capturing grizzly bears and black bears in Grand Teton National Park this fall. The hope is to gather more data about the two populations. Field research will start on Sept. 26 and go until Nov. 15.
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Highway 26/287 over Togwotee Pass temporarily re-opened on Friday morning. The road’s been closed for most of the week as crews have worked to keep the Fish Creek Fire from jumping the highway. Expect slow speeds and limited visibility.
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Residents of the Brooks Lake, Pinnacle Drive and Breccia Drive areas have been under a Level 3 evacuation notice since Tuesday evening. U.S. Highway 26 over Togwotee Pass remains closed.
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”The time has come” to start lowering interest rates, according to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who announced the cuts at the exclusive monetary policy event Friday.
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Grand Teton National Park taps local community to hear about priorities for management in the futureGrand Teton National Park hosted a public meeting at the Teton County Library in Jackson on July 16 to hear from folks about their hopes for the park for the next couple decades. The agency is looking for input on what it’s referring to as “desired conditions,” which is essentially how park staff should manage different parts of the park moving forward.
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The U.S. Bicycle Route System already had designated roads in Utah, Nevada and Arizona. Now it’s in Wyoming too.
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Months after lawmakers passed the outline of a deal to sell the parcel to Grand Teton National Park during the last legislative session, its future remains tenuous.
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The state will only sell the parcel to the federal government if the Bureau of Land Management picks a less conservation-minded management plan for Rock Springs. Even if that happens, the State Board of Land Commissioners will also need to vote in favor of it.
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Fire danger has been raised to “moderate” for the Teton area. That includes Grand Teton National Park, Bridger-Teton National Forest and the National Elk Refuge. The increase is due to warmer and windier conditions, and the fact that grasses, shrubs and trees are drying out.