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Snow King post-mortem and lessons for Grand Targhee

Posted September 25, 2021 1276 0 0

Last fall, while trying to get the U.S. Forest Service to protect wildlife and our Town Hill from amusement park development at Snow King, I saw a northern goshawk for the first time. I knew about them — I had spent thousands of hours recreating...

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...

Findings can’t be made for Snow King’s gondola, zip line, or pump house

Posted July 3, 2020 2453 0 0

Snow King’s final master plan was approved in January, even though there was still much left to be desired. And while the community was coming together to handle a public health crisis, Snow King submitted an application for one of the most...

Let’s “zip” this in the bud

Posted May 20, 2020 1538 0 0

Lighting to the summit. A new zip line (in addition to the other two proposed on forest land) added to the noisy menagerie of coasters, slides, and mazes by Rafferty. Late-night weddings and “group events” up to five nights a week. A gondola...

Don’t stop now: there’s still a win-win for Snow King

Posted April 29, 2020 1437 0 0

Photo by Bradley J Boner / Jackson Hole News & Guide There’s still a win-win solution for Snow King on the table. As the Town Council considers approving Snow King’s Base Area Master Plan Amendment through “third...

Why the Forest Service should start over with the Snow King Draft EIS

Posted March 31, 2020 1660 0 0

We love Snow King, and we want Snow King to succeed as our local Town Hill – not an amusement park. We believe a better future is possible, beyond what the current investors are pushing. So when the Forest Service released their Draft...

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

Posted February 20, 2020 2530 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...

Snow King plan amendment discussed

Posted January 8, 2020 2831 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 generally approved a deal with the investors and developers on Monday. We are...

Transportation solutions needed for Snow King

Posted December 16, 2019 2969 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 for employees or guests. While...

The win-win solution for Snow King

Posted December 14, 2019 3521 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 owl habitat, putting huge buildings on...