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4 days ago | 
jhnewsandguide.com | Christina Macintosh
The once-numerous battles against the controversial glamping operation near Teton Village have come to an end. Last week, Protect Our Water Jackson Hole opted to withdraw its case before the state’s Environmental Quality Council to appeal the sewage permit of Tammah, formerly known as Basecamp, granted by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality.
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4 days ago | 
jhnewsandguide.com | Christina Macintosh
The proposed development and expansion of Grand Targhee Resort may require the removal of about 456 whitebark pine trees. At the level of detail in the environmental impact statement released last month, it’s unclear whether some projects can be amended to save trees within the project area. It’s also unclear how many of the trees within the project area are mature, cone-bearing trees necessary for the species’ reproduction.
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4 days ago | 
jhnewsandguide.com | Christina Macintosh
One hundred years ago this month, a Gros Ventre hillside gave way and collapsed into the river bottom below. More earth moved than during the building of the Panama Canal, and the massive slide changed the course of Jackson Hole history. On Saturday, the Bridger-Teton National Forest will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Gros Ventre Slide.
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5 days ago | 
jhnewsandguide.com | Christina Macintosh
One of two Lower Valley Energy districts up for reelection this year has two candidates vying for a seat on the board. Devin Simpson, a Star Valley chiropractor and the mayor of Thayne, is challenging incumbent Fred Brog, a rancher from Freedom who has been on the board since 1988. Both men are seeking a three-year term to represent a large district that includes parts of Etna, Thayne and Alpine, as well as Freedom, Wayan, Irwin, Swan Valley and Lanes Creek.
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1 week ago | 
jhnewsandguide.com | Christina Macintosh
A lawsuit filed by a Yellowstone National Park employee claims that the park knowingly placed his family in lead-contaminated employee housing. In 2018, the park provided Anthony Aiuppa, an engineer equipment operator, with housing in Historic Fort Yellowstone, in Mammoth Hot Springs. Aiuppa and his wife later found out from other park employees that houses in the area were known to have toxic levels of lead. The Aiuppas then had their children tested for lead poisoning. Both tested positive.
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1 week ago | 
billingsgazette.com | Christina Macintosh
A lawsuit filed by a Yellowstone National Park employee claims that the park knowingly placed his family in lead-contaminated employee housing. In 2018, the park provided Anthony Aiuppa, an engineer equipment operator, with housing in Historic Fort Yellowstone, in Mammoth Hot Springs. Aiuppa and his wife later found out from other park employees that houses in the area were known to have toxic levels of lead. The Aiuppas then had their children tested for lead poisoning. Both tested positive.
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1 week ago | 
jhnewsandguide.com | Christina Macintosh |Jeanette Boner
Two head-on vehicle collisions occurred north of town Thursday. Just before noon, a sprinter van and a car collided on the Teton Park Road between Moose and Beaver Creek, north of Windy Point, in Grand Teton National Park. The accident left two people in critical condition. They were transported to St. John’s Health. An air ambulance responded to the scene, according to Emily Davis, Teton park’s spokesperson.
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1 week ago | 
jhnewsandguide.com | Christina Macintosh
Teton County’s black bears had a tough 2024. The county recorded a whopping 148 conflicts — about twice the annual average — prompting the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to relocate 10 bears and to kill six. Of the 148 conflicts, 127 involved unsecured human garbage. Grand Teton National Park, meanwhile, saw 16 conflicts in 2024 — more than double the number from two years earlier. Biologists killed two bears and relocated five others.
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1 week ago | 
trib.com | Christina Macintosh
JACKSON — A lawsuit filed by a Yellowstone National Park employee claims that the park knowingly placed his family in lead-contaminated employee housing. In 2018, the park provided Anthony Aiuppa, an engineer equipment operator, with housing in Historic Fort Yellowstone, in Mammoth Hot Springs. Aiuppa and his wife later found out from other park employees that houses in the area were known to have toxic levels of lead. The Aiuppas then had their children tested for lead poisoning.
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1 week ago | 
jhnewsandguide.com | Christina Macintosh
A makeshift trail crew funded by private philanthropy will be working on the Bridger-Teton National Forest this summer, filling the gap created by the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce. Friends of the Bridger-Teton cooked up the idea for the crew of five — dubbed the “forest corps” — with the organization’s board and U.S. Forest Service representatives.
