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Open Access Properties

July 12, 2018

While much of the Land Trust’s work consists of privately held land and conservation easements, we work strategically to make land conservation accessible to our local communities through open access properties. These community gems are open to explore and will be protected for generations to come. As of Summer 2018, the Land Trust protects a […]

Karns Meadow Invigoration

July 12, 2018

The Jackson Hole Land Trust has been working with the Town of Jackson and Teton County Parks and Recreation Department to honor the original intent of the Karns Family, donors of the Karns Meadow parcel to the Town of Jackson, by transforming it into a community park. Karns Meadow is owned by the town and […]

R Park

July 12, 2018

R Park is the Land Trust’s community conservation gem, with 40 acres of reclaimed space designed to encourage all ages to engage with nature and inspire through open space interaction. What comes to mind when you think of R Park- kids sledding the big knoll in winter, moose munching on cottonwoods in spring, access to […]

Karns Meadow and Journeys School

July 12, 2018

During the month of June 2018, the Jackson Hole Land Trust, Journeys School of Teton Science Schools, and Teton County Parks and Recreation Department partnered on a Wild/Human Interface Unit focusing on Karns Meadow. Thirty students grounded their investigation on the question, “How do we navigate the wild/human interface where we live?” by examining Karns […]

Trout Tuesdays

July 12, 2018

In 2018, Trout Tuesdays launched with the goal to help more Latino families learn to fish and utilize the valley’s world-class waterways. The project was conceived by Wyoming Game and Fish, World Cast, Snake River Fund, Orvis, Teton Science Schools, and the Jackson Hole Land Trust. Every Tuesday in June 2018 from 5-8 PM, families […]

Slide Into R Park

July 12, 2018

“Slide into R Park” empowers the minority youth of Jackson. This collaborative program launched in 2018 between R Park, Slideluck Youth Initiative, Latino Outdoors, and the Art Association of Jackson Hole. The project utilizes the open spaces of R Park, and encourages kids to develop and inspire visual storytelling skills with onsite photography lessons connecting […]

Torrey Lake Ranch: 940 acres | protected since 2010

June 7, 2018

The Torrey Lake Ranch’s 940 acres were added to the broad landscape of protected properties in the Torrey Creek Drainage, including the adjacent Ring Lake Ranch. This property includes nearly five miles of lakeshore and creek habitat, and historic log and rock cabins dating to the 1920s.

Lander Front

June 7, 2018

Along the foothills of the Wind River Range near Lander, we continue to work to secure three active projects that would conserve valuable winter range and working ranch lands on nearly 3,000 acres.

Three Spear Ranch: 1,213 acres | protected since 1995

June 7, 2018

The Three Spear Ranch easement was our first in Fremont County, in what we later established as our Wind River Program area in 2007. This expanse of open lands in the heart of Wind River Country borders state and federal conservation areas, and provides wildlife habitat protection on truly a landscape-level scale.

Ring Lake Ranch: 414 acres | protected since 2009

June 7, 2018

Ring Lake Ranch, located in the Torrey Creek drainage in our Wind River Program area, has important migration corridors and habitat for the Whiskey Mountain bighorn sheep herd, and rock faces with petroglyphs etched by the Mountain Shoshone tribe. The 420-acre ranch overlooks both Ring and Torrey lakes, and is home to a retreat center […]

Upper Gros Ventre River Ranch

June 7, 2018

In addition, the Jackson Hole Land Trust contributed support toward the Trust for Public Land’s Upper Gros Ventre River Ranch Project, a 990-acre private inholding deep in the Gros Ventre range that was donated by Former Senator Herb Kohl and will be transferred to the Bridger-Teton National Forest in the future for the use and […]

Three Creek Ranch

June 7, 2018

In September 2015, 34 acres in the Three Creek Ranch subdivision received additional protection by extinguishing development rights through a donated easement.

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Open Access Properties

Karns Meadow Invigoration

R Park

Karns Meadow and Journeys School

Trout Tuesdays

Slide Into R Park

Torrey Lake Ranch: 940 acres | protected since 2010

Lander Front

Three Spear Ranch: 1,213 acres | protected since 1995

Ring Lake Ranch: 414 acres | protected since 2009

Upper Gros Ventre River Ranch

Three Creek Ranch

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