{"id":10285,"date":"2025-01-04T21:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T04:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=10285"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:08","slug":"public-lands-wy-essential-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=10285","title":{"rendered":"Public Lands (WY) – Essential Connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> READ FULL STORY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Uncle Sam has a belated Christmas gift for anyone who loves visiting national parks.<\/p>\n

After years of political wrangling between state and federal officials, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Monday the purchase of 640 acres of additional land within Grand Teton National Park. Known as the Kelly Parcel, the \u201cpicturesque landscape\u201d has mountain views and \u201cworld-class wildlife habitat,\u201d federal officials said in a news release.<\/p>\n

The parcel was the largest remaining piece of unprotected land within the national park\u2019s boundaries. By adding the area to the park, wildlife managers can maintain \u201cessential connectivity for wildlife in the southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem,\u201d officials said. They called the zone one of the last remaining temperate ecosystems on the planet that\u2019s mostly intact.<\/p>\n

The $100 million sale to preserve the parcel was made possible through a partnership between the Interior Department and the National Park Service. They pooled money from the Grand Teton National Park Foundation ($37.6 million), the Land and Water Conservation Fund ($62.4 million), and the National Park Foundation. But private donations were a big part of the conservation victory as well. Nearly 400 donors from 46 states made gifts ranging from $10 million to $15 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in awe of the incredible generosity of hundreds of people who stepped forward to protect this essential parcel,\u201d Grand Teton National Park Foundation President Leslie Mattson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

READ FULL STORY Uncle Sam has a belated Christmas gift for anyone who loves visiting national parks. After years of political wrangling between state and federal officials, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Monday the purchase of 640 acres of additional land within Grand Teton National Park. Known as the Kelly Parcel, the \u201cpicturesque […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-public-lands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10291,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285\/revisions\/10291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}