Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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JACKSON — Lisa Robertson says she was just curious what would happen two years ago when she put in applications to become the sole person permitted to run beaver trap lines in a few creek drainages near Jackson. Being the founder of an organization called Wyoming Untrapped, she was an unlikely candidate to wade into beaver ponds and set conibear traps meant for the large aquatic rodents, a species whose valuable furs fueled exploration of much of North America. Her purpose, instead, was to prevent beavers from being trapped and killed. ...
JACKSON — Where a phone call today is an iffy proposition, visitors and residents of Grand Teton National Park may soon have all their smartphones’ capabilities at their fingertips. A proposal being driven by telecommunications companies, and drawing the ire of one National Park Service watchdog group, would add nine new cell towers and bury 63 miles of high-speed fiber-optic cable between Moose and Flagg Ranch. Today, there are just two towers — at Jackson Hole Airport and Signal Mountain — and notoriously spotty signals, especially during...
JACKSON — Fireworks flew at the final meeting over future wilderness in Teton County, but irreconcilable differences ruled the day. After two years of wrangling over how to best manage Teton County’s federal public lands, the final outcome was no deal. The Teton County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to abandon any recommendation about designating wilderness in Teton County to the Wyoming County Commissioners Association. The decision came after a final meeting with the Wyoming Public Lands Initiative committee, whi...
JACKSON — At least one Teton County commissioner has rebuked U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney’s legislative intervention in a county-led land management planning process. Mark Newcomb, chairman of the county board, has drafted a letter requesting the first-term congresswoman withdraw a bill that would directly affect management of Teton County lands being reviewed through the Wyoming Public Lands Initiative. The economist and former climbing guide waffled for weeks before typing the missive, which will go before the other four commissioners. “I heard...