
3rd Annual Greater Yellowstone Crane Festival
Virtual Event September 14th-19th
Teton Basin
Learn MoreBecause of the rare plant and wide-ranging animal species that depend upon it, the Teton River Basin has been ranked the number one private lands conservation priority area within the entire Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for its combination of irreplaceable ecological value and vulnerability.
Teton Basin
Learn MoreSteeped in agricultural tradition, farming and ranching remains significant in Teton Basin, benefitting both people and wildlife.
South Fork
Learn MoreThe South Fork Snake River corridor from Swan Valley to Menan Buttes is one of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s most outstanding fish and wildlife resources, including the cottonwood gallery forest along this reach of the river, named the number one wildlife resource in Idaho.
Sand Creek and Middle Henry’s Fork
Learn MoreBecause of the combination of rare plant and animal populations in the area, the Henry’s Fork River is ranked as the number two conservation priority within the entire Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for its irreplaceable ecological value.
Island Park and Shotgun Valley
Learn MoreThe Island Park Caldera, the Henry’s Lake Flat, Shotgun Valley, and the south slope of the Centennial Range make up a large and diverse landscape, where there are is great value for migratory and wintering elk and sage grouse, raptor migration corridors, and expansive habitats of value to many species.
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We hope you got a chance to enjoy the Teton Creek Corridor pathway this summer and fall! As of today, it is closed so that wildlife can move through this important migratory corridor unimpeded. Thank you for helping allow big game and other species that rely on this area to move along their instinctual migration routes. The pathway will reopen on May 1.
For more info on the corridor, please visit www.tetoncreekcorridor.org/
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We did enjoy it! Several sections, in fact. ❤️
Bidding is open for our Experiences Auction, where you can win a dinner for four at the South Fork Lodge, and much more!
The South Fork Lodge is an elegant western lodge built along the banks of a dramatic bend of the world-famous South Fork of the Snake River in Swan Valley, Idaho. Enjoy a three-course hospitality and dining experience in a stunning location, unavailable to the general public. The upscale Americana menu emphasizes local ingredients and seasonal fare.
Click here for more info and to bid:
tetonlandtrust.org/annual-holiday-member-party/
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Today is Giving Tuesday, and right now is the perfect time to renew your membership or consider an additional gift, as all gifts above and beyond a donor's historical membership amount will be doubled by the Hamill Family Foundation! Leave your legacy and give future generations a chance to enjoy the beauty and serenity of eastern Idaho, just as you do today.
To donate, please visit tetonlandtrust.org. Thank you!
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Latest Teton Regional Land Trust News


Fall Message from our Executive Director

Teton Regional Land Trust presents the 6th Annual Greater Yellowstone Crane Festival

Teton Regional Land Trust partners with landowners to conserve 140-acre property near the Teton River

Wrun for Wray Targhee Hill Climb to return for 11th Race, honoring a legacy and impacting community

Teton Regional Land Trust partners with landowners to conserve over a mile of creek frontage along Bitch Creek
We hope you got a chance to enjoy the Teton Creek Corridor pathway this summer and fall! As of today, it is closed so that wildlife can move through this important migratory corridor unimpeded. Thank you for helping allow big game and other species that rely on this area to move along their instinctual migration routes. The pathway will reopen on May 1.
For more info on the corridor, please visit the link in our bio.

Bidding is open for our Experiences Auction, where you can win a dinner for four at the South Fork Lodge, and much more!
The South Fork Lodge is an elegant western lodge built along the banks of a dramatic bend of the world-famous South Fork of the Snake River in Swan Valley, Idaho. Enjoy a three-course hospitality and dining experience in a stunning location, unavailable to the general public. The upscale Americana menu emphasizes local ingredients and seasonal fare.
Click the link in our bio for more info and to bid!

Today is Giving Tuesday, and right now is the perfect time to renew your membership or consider an additional gift, as all gifts above and beyond a donor`s historical membership amount will be doubled by the Hamill Family Foundation! Leave your legacy and give future generations a chance to enjoy the beauty and serenity of eastern Idaho, just as you do today.
To donate, please visit the link in our bio. Thank you!
#GivingTuesdaycampaign #landprotection #easternidaho

Bid now on a unique opportunity to get a behind the scenes tour of the Museum of Idaho!
Join Museum of Idaho Executive Director Jeff Carr on a behind-the-scenes private tour event for up to 10 people. Get the Gem State’s premier history and science center – and its director – all to yourself for up to two hours and view exhibit areas, including live rainforest animals, as well as archives and research collections that the public rarely sees. Light Refreshments will by served at the end of the tour.
Click the link in our bio for more info and to see all of the other opportunities in our Experiences Auction!

There`s nothing like seeing Sandhill Cranes in Teton Valley. Bid now on a Sunrise Crane Viewing as part of our online Experiences Auction! (link in bio)
Join Dave and Susie Work at their home on Fox Creek West, 80 acres of which is in a conservation easement. Excellent crane viewing opportunities abound before dawn as the cranes awaken in a cacophony of calls and take off to the fields for breakfast. They come over in groups of 2-12 as the ones already in the fields call them in. This experience is limited to 6 people. You must be at their home on the westside between 6:30 and 7am in order to experience this. A light breakfast will follow.

Bidding is open for our online Experiences Auction as part of our Holiday Party and Fundraiser! You could win a scenic flight over the Tetons, and much more! Click the link in our bio to see all of the auction items and RSVP to the Holiday Party on December 8th.

We can`t wait to see you at our Holiday Member Party and Fundraiser! Join us for food, drinks, conversation, updates, and a celebration to honor the 2023 conservation award recipients.
New this year, we`ll have a one-of-a-kind Experiences Auction filled with the kinds of wildlife and nature experiences we think you`ll love! Auction items include things like guided skiing, fishing, birding, and snowshoeing, cookouts, a museum tour, and a flight over the Tetons. We will have a silent auction at the event and an online auction for those who cannot attend. All proceeds of the Experiences Auction will directly support our conservation work. Help us reach our 2023 fundraising goal by bidding on these fun filled, educational and unique experiences!
This event is free to attend, but we recommend you RSVP now as tickets are limited and on a first come first serve basis. Click the button in our bio for more information and to RSVP.

The Wyoming Migration Initiative at the University of Wyoming partnered with Grand Teton National Park to put together the film Animal Trails: Rediscovering Grand Teton Migrations, which shares the story of Grand Teton wildlife migrations and the surrounding lands and people that sustain them. The Teton River Canyon mule deer herd and Clen Atchley, a conservation easement landowner and past Teton Regional Land Trust Board Member, are highlighted starting at minute seven.
Private land conservation started in the Teton River Canyon landscape 25 years ago with a 760-acre conservation easement donated to Teton Regional Land Trust (TRLT) in 1998. Since then, over 2,180 acres along the Bitch and Badger Creek corridors have been protected through permanent conservation easements held by TRLT and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and strategic fee title acquisitions through a partnership between The Conservation Fund and Bureau of Land Management. Our most recent 183-acre easement in that landscape, protecting over one mile of frontage along Bitch Creek, was completed in December 2022 and donated by the Fosdick family. Right now, our land protection staff is working toward another conservation easement in the Teton River Canyon protecting more critical migratory habitat.
Over the past five years, there`s been renewed interest in this landscape--coinciding with the mule deer research of Grand Teton National Park and Idaho Department of Fish and Game, which is described in this film. This work has helped TRLT and our partners focus our efforts where we can work with private landowners and have the greatest impact for mule deer that depend on this system.
This story is a great reminder of why we do the work we do--and a reminder of the impact this work has in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Private lands conservation is critical to the future of wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Area. What we have here is irreplaceable. Once it`s gone, it`s gone forever. THANK YOU for all YOU do to help keep the large animal migrations and the open agricultural landscapes they depend on intact!
Tamara Sperber
Conservation Director

Land Trust staff recently took part in a meeting with farmers and ranchers to discuss options that are available to them in order to keep their operations going while providing them with financial flexibility. "Teton Valley`s farmers and ranchers are engaged in challenging businesses, particularly in our high-altitude mountain valley. It is vital that we find and implement incentives to help those who wish to continue to farm and ranch here in Teton Valley sustain their operations," said Michael Whitfield, founding executive director of the Land Trust. You can read the entire write up at the link in our bio, from @tetonvalleynews

A Message from our Stewardship Director, Kimberly Holmes ( @icantseeusmile_ )
As the golden hues of fall begin to give way to colder, snowier days ahead, the stewardship team at the Land Trust are slowly wrapping up another productive field season. Over the course of the summer, our staff members had the annual privilege of meeting with our conservation easement landowners on their protected properties. These visits fulfill a part of the Land Trust’s obligation to steward each property that we conserve in perpetuity. The visits document the conservation values for which the property was protected, and ensures that those values remain intact, while also providing an opportunity for the Land Trust and landowners to discuss ways we can improve protected resources on the land. Some examples of ways we may improve resources include working collaboratively on land management plans, connecting landowners to funding for restoration or implementation of certain conservation practices to improve land use compatibility with natural resource management, or identifying obsolete fencing that could be removed to make way for unobstructed wildlife movement.
Despite the purpose of the visit, it is always a great time to connect with our landowners and revel in how significant each piece of protected land is to the overall mission of the Land Trust. No matter where I am in our service area, I can find some impact the Land Trust’s and conservation easement landowner’s protection efforts have had on the landscape. For example, this spring, our Stewardship Associate, Kristy Smith, worked with volunteers and partners on a fence removal on two conservation easements located along the Teton River corridor. This effort removed three quarters of a mile of barbed wire fencing along a portion of the river corridor where moose are known to frequent. In October, I floated this section of the river and felt a lot of pride when I saw a cow and bull moose in close proximity to the area where the fence had been removed. Knowing that for years this area had been an obstacle, it was a great feeling to see the outcome in action.
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