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Community Organizing and COVID-19

Posted March 13, 2020 3712 0 0

Dear Alliance supporters, I would like to give you an update on what we’re doing about the coronavirus. As you probably know, the town and county are canceling big events and recommending

JHMR proposes a doubling of backcountry ski guides’ user days

Posted March 4, 2020 2950 0 0

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort wants to expand their backcountry ski guiding program by adding more permit days. We are concerned about this because more days in the backcountry means added

Forest Service fails to study reasonable range of alternatives at Snow King

Posted February 20, 2020 3038 0 0

We are extremely disappointed that the Forest Service is short-circuiting a fair process for reviewing harmful development proposed by the investors at Snow King, and failed to study the reasonable range of alternatives required under the...

Dear FAA: Please revoke this scenic heli tour authorization!

Posted February 13, 2020 2567 0 0

The Alliance and 10 partner organizations wrote the following letter to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requesting they revoke Wind River Air’s authorization to operate scenic heli tours from the

The rubber hasn’t hit the road yet – a transportation update

Posted January 24, 2020 2790 0 0

According to our Comprehensive Plan, our community has a vision that “residents and visitors will safely, efficiently, and economically move within our community and throughout the region using alternative transportation,”

Snow King plan amendment discussed

Posted January 8, 2020 3279 0 0

Thanks to everyone who spoke up over the past two years as the Town Council deliberated about what the future should hold for the base of Snow King. The council

Conservation Leadership Institute (CLI): 10 rounds and counting

Posted December 19, 2019 3115 0 0

Congratulations to the recent graduates of CLI Round 10! I am excited to have had the opportunity to engage another group of passionate, motivated and caring community members in creating

Transportation solutions needed for Snow King

Posted December 16, 2019 3433 0 0

Transportation demand management (TDM) is commonly used to address the transportation impacts of developments, especially large projects like Snow King or Teton Village, with strategies like paying for bus passes

The win-win solution for Snow King

Posted December 14, 2019 4155 0 0

We love Snow King and we want it to succeed as our Town Hill. We believe the current owners’ development proposals will make it worse – bulldozing important mule deer, elk, northern goshawk and great gray

Friends don’t let friends…

Posted December 4, 2019 3338 0 0

…go to Cheyenne to undermine our local democracy Have your friends been driving down to Cheyenne to get the state legislature to take away our local authority over land-use and

“Companies simply cannot find consistent employees due to a shortage in housing.”

Posted December 3, 2019 4217 0 0

Elizabeth Hutchings (pictured left) recently joined other young Jackson residents and Conservation Leadership Institute participants to speak up on an anti-housing bill in Cheyenne. Read her comments below, and click

“The parents of my students are not here to give comment…they are working to afford housing.”

Posted November 27, 2019 3609 0 0

Kate Roberts is a young Jackson resident, preschool teacher, and Conservation Leadership Institute participant who traveled to Cheyenne to give comment on the recent proposed anti-housing bill. Read her thoughts