Teton County, Idaho, has a seat at the table in discussions over the sweeping expansion proposed on public land at Grand Targhee Resort.
Because the Caribou-Targhee National Forest granted Teton County cooperating agency status on Dec. 8, a county representative will be a member of the interdisciplinary team that is going through the Environmental Impact Statement process and examining the impacts of the lift additions, infrastructure improvements, boundary adjustments, and new trail development laid out in the Grand Targhee Resort Master Development Plan.
The master development plan includes the addition of around 1,200 acres on the south and west side of the resortâs 2,500-acre special permit area, as well as restaurants on the summit of Fredâs Mountain and at the top of the Sacajawea lift, to name just a few proposals. This comes in tandem with the resortâs already-approved residential and commercial development planned for the private land around the base area.
Preston Rancher Jay Wilde had a dream â to restore beavers to Birch Creek.
His goal was to make Birch Creek a perennial stream. And provide water â for his cattle and horses.
But each time he released beavers â on his own nickel â they vanished.
âThey didnât stay. They didnât survive or the predators got them, we donât know,â Jay said. âIt got pretty obvious to me that I didnât know what I was doing. As far as restoring beaver.â
Then, Jay met Joe Wheaton from Utah State University. A professor of Watershed Sciences, Wheaton specializes in using beavers and low-tech woody structures to restore streams.
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