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Sustain wildlife in South Park

Posted May 24, 2021 1080 0 0

Let’s sustain healthy wildlife populations through the neighborhood plan for Northern South Park. We are a community of people who love to call wild places home – and wildlife our neighbors. As we expand into open space to house essential...

Plan ahead to protect wildlife at Stilson

Posted April 29, 2021 1162 0 0

Stilson is a critical transportation hub for people and wildlife. The Stilson transit center makes it possible for people to get around without a car, and it’s also the site of the county’s highest priority wildlife crossing. In 2019...

Snow King Objection Meeting Highlights – Wyoming Wilderness Association

Posted February 23, 2021 1458 0 0

We are trying to protect Snow King Mountain, our Town Hill, from harmful development plans by new investors. We want Snow King to succeed as our Town Hill, not an amusement park. The Bridger-Teton office of the US Forest Service has been...

Snow King Objection Meeting Highlights – Winter Wildlands Alliance

Posted February 23, 2021 1397 0 0

We are trying to protect Snow King Mountain, our Town Hill, from harmful development plans by new investors. We want Snow King to succeed as our Town Hill, not an amusement park. The Bridger-Teton office of the US Forest Service has been...

Snow King Objection Meeting Highlights – Alliance

Posted February 23, 2021 1315 0 0

We are trying to protect Snow King Mountain, our Town Hill, from harmful development plans by new investors. We want Snow King to succeed as our Town Hill, not an amusement park. The Bridger-Teton office of the US Forest Service has been...

Red House Apartments: right project, right place

Posted January 29, 2021 1994 0 0

The Red House Apartments will create over 50 apartments for our local workforce. The project, which is 100% deed-restricted, is a one-of-a-kind partnership between the Cumming Foundation, Teton County, and the Jackson Teton County Affordable...

“Suburban” project could derail neighborhood plan

Posted January 27, 2021 1601 0 0

The neighborhood plan for Northern South Park (NSP) is already underway, yet one of the landowners is asking for approval of old-school development in the same area. The Suburban development (so called, because of the name of the zoning) proposes...

Public health to consider new water protections

Posted January 21, 2021 1334 0 1

With your help, our Health Department could advance a new rule to protect our drinking water! Protect Our Water JH and the Wyoming Outdoor Council proposed a new rule that will act as an early warning system to keep our drinking water safe. The...

Water workshop shows more to do

Posted January 15, 2021 1040 0 1

A recent workshop demonstrated the scope of work that remains to be done to protect our drinking water. Despite previous and ongoing efforts (by many government and nonprofit partners) our water quality is not what it should be; Hoback Junction’s...

Transparency ensures trust in Northern South Park’s future

Posted January 14, 2021 1631 0 0

UPDATE: after much back and forth, in which the County and the public tangled over transparency, the County officially voted to keep the steering committee meetings open to the public. Thank you to those who commented and ensured that public...

Hoback RV Park residents need you

Posted December 4, 2020 1565 0 0

We were dismayed to hear that the owners of the Hoback RV Park – after violating multiple environmental regulations around sewage disposal – decided to suddenly evict 25 longtime residents, many of whom are low income, elderly, and vulnerable to...

Five changes needed to fix our transportation plan

Posted December 1, 2020 1398 0 0

New transportation plan progressive in policy, but not practice The 2015 Integrated Transportation Plan was designed to implement the transportation vision of our Comprehensive Plan. And just like with the Comp Plan, our community has been...