Teton Regional Land Trust announces resignation of Executive Director - Bonnie Self named interim director
After operating as the Executive Director of the Teton Regional Land Trust for a year and a half, Conrad Kramer has announced that he will be resigning. His last day will be February 5th, 2010. The Teton Regional Land Trust will be looking for an Executive Director with a stronger natural resources background and land conservation experience.
The Teton Regional Land Trust has accomplished numerous goals including becoming the first land trust in Idaho to be accredited by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission, opening an Island Park Satellite Office and creating a new website during Kramer’s time as Executive Director. Other recent accomplishments include working with land owners to conserve 235 acres on the Pine Creek Bench in Swan Valley, 713 acres along the South Fork of the Snake River, 200 acres of riverfront property in Teton Valley, completing numerous restoration projects on conserved properties and being awarded a $1 million North American Wetlands Conservation Council grant.
Land Trust and Electric Cooperative Team Up to Prevent Swan Mortality
29 January 2010
While most birds disappear as winter’s cold hand grips Teton Basin and the lower Henry’s Fork, one notable exception arrives to spend the winter- the Trumpeter Swan. Winter can be harsh in the service area of Fall River Rural Electric Cooperative, and the cooperative is working with the Teton Regional Land Trust to ensure Trumpeter Swans who spend the winter here don’t face additional threats from power lines.
The Teton Regional Land Trust and Fall River are coordinating a project to add and/or replace at least 120 bird diverters on power lines in areas frequented by wintering Trumpeter Swans. Bird diverters hang from power lines, making them more visible to birds in flight.
Winter Tracking Fun
29 January 2010
Teton Regional Land Trust and Teton Nordic Club team up to inspire winter wildlife learning
Nearly 50 children clicked into their skis to take a tour in search of wildlife and their tracks last Wednesday. The Teton Regional Land Trust partnered with the Teton Nordic Club for the fourth annual Nordic Naturalist kid’s wildlife tracking ski. This year’s event was hosted on two adjacent conservation easements in Teton Basin owned by the Klausmann and Graham families.
Valley Ranch Preserved
30 December 2009
As 2009 comes to an end, the Teton Regional Land Trust would like to celebrate one of our finest accomplishments of the year with you! We have just completed a 200-acre conservation easement in Teton Basin on the Breckenridge Family Ranch. Thanks to the Breckenridge Family, the views from the Teton Valley Overlook on Highway 33 will remain undeveloped and spectacular. The Breckenridge easement property lies just south of the Harrops’s bridge and protects over one mile of Teton River frontage and lower portions of Spring Creek. A variety of priority wildlife species call this property home including sandhill cranes, long-billed curlew, Columbian sharp-tailed grouse, black-crowned night-heron and Yellowstone cutthroat trout. White-tailed deer and moose are year-round residents on the property as well.