Reservoirs in the Upper Snake River Basin are filling again with the reservoirs collectively filled to 69% capacity. Individually, those reservoirs range from 100% filled at Henry’s Lake and 90% filled at American Falls to 39% of capacity at Pallisades Reservoir. Jackson Lake is currently filled to 74% of its storage capacity. The Bureau of Reclamation says … Continue Reading
The Teton County Sheriff’s offices from Wyoming and Idaho arrested a 19 year old man at his residence in Driggs on a Wyoming felony warrant for conspiracy to commit auto burglary and auto burglary linked to … Continue Reading
This weekend, we get to reset our clocks again as the U.S. returns to daylight savings time. The concept is that people won’t need their lights on at home until one hour later in the evening. It’s part of … Continue Reading
Photographers are invited to share their favorite winter images of the region with the public during the Fifth Annual Winter Photo Festival to be held next month in West Yellowstone. The festival will be held at the West Yellowstone Visitor Information Center on March 12th, sponsored by … Continue Reading
The looming sequester is expected to spell curtailments of government services and even some closures of facilities – including airport control towers in the region. At this time, the control towers listed do not include Jackson Hole Airport which continues … Continue Reading
The average retail price for regular gasoline across the country rose to $3.78 a gallon Monday. U.S. Energy Information Administration Spokesperson Amerine Woodyard says that’s up 3.7 cents from a week ago and up almost 43 cents from 4 weeks ago. She says pump prices were … Continue Reading
A new National Park Service report for 2011 shows that nearly 2.6 million visitors to Grand Teton National Park spent over $436-million in the gateway communities surrounding the park. That spending, in turn, supported 6,397 jobs in … Continue Reading
The International Association of Wildland Fire is offering a “webinar” tomorrow entitled “Debunking Myths in Wildland Fire. The association explains that as more people live in high fire hazard areas, the active involvement of the public is … Continue Reading
Agencies in the Greater Yellowstone area refer to it as a “blurring the boundaries.” Now, Wyoming’s U.S. Senator John Barrasso has reintroduced bipartisan legislation that would allow the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to work with state foresters to … Continue Reading
The Community Foundation of Teton Valley earlier this month announced the selection Kim Trotter of Driggs as that organization’s new Executive Director. Trotter has served the last seven years as director of the Idaho Water Project for the statewide office of Trout Unlimited. From 1999-2005, she was … Continue Reading
