Wyoming reaches agreement for sale of land inside Grand Teton National Park
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Source: KPVI, Channel 6 in Pocatello, Idaho
Wyoming reaches agreement for sale of land inside Grand Teton National Park
Jackson, WY Updated 10 hrs ago
On Monday, Wyoming and the United States Department of the Interior announced an agreement to conserve hundreds of acres of unprotected land inside Grand Teton National Park all while helping the state's students.
640 acres of unprotected land within Grand Teton National Park known as the Antelope Flats Parcel is owned by the State of Wyoming School Trust. Wyoming Governor Matt Mead and Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell reached an agreement for the state to sell the land to National Parks Service. ... "We are hopefully that from today that we are going to get this parcel sold to the parks service and get it done by the end of the year," said Mead.
The parcel of land sits in the middle of Grand Teton National Park. The 640 acres are valued at $46 million dollars. The federal government has already pledged $23 million dollars to the purchase with the Nation Park Service coming up with the other half. If the money can't be raised the land will go up for auction for possible commercial use. ... "It would be devastating for wildlife corridors, for the visitor experience, and also for that historic iconic view ship," said David Vela, Grand Teton National Park Superintendent.
Wyoming is experiencing a severe drop in revenues so the sale of the Antelope Flat Parcel would go toward education in the state. Governor Mead says it's important for them to sell the land to park services so it can conserved. ... "It gives us some comfort to know what I'm enjoying today with my kids, my kids will enjoy with my grandkids and it will look like this," said Mead.
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If you watched Ken Burns's series on the National Parks, you know that acquiring land in the Jackson Hole valley, which is between Jackson, Wyoming, and the southern border of Yellowstone National Park was - and still is - a convoluted process. After some complex negotiations, Wyoming, and now Alaska, have ended up as the two states in which a presidential exercise of the Antiquities Act requires Congressional consent or ratification.
Because of the Constitutional intricacies required, this story is of national importance.
The Rockefeller family and the president of the Northern Pacific Railway, Frederick Billings, are part of this story too. Perhaps you've heard of the city named after him - Billings, Montana.
Antiquities Act
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Reduction of powers
Presidential powers under the Act have been reduced twice. The first time followed the unpopular proclamation of Jackson Hole National Monument in 1943. The 1950 law that incorporated Jackson Hole into an enlarged Grand Teton National Park also amended the Antiquities Act, requiring Congressional consent for any future creation or enlargement of National Monuments in Wyoming. The second time followed Jimmy Carter's use of the Act to create fifty-six million acres (230,000 km²) of National Monuments in Alaska. The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act requires Congressional ratification of the use of the Antiquities Act in Alaska for withdrawals of greater than 5,000 acres (20.2 km²).
Aristus
(66,462 posts)"Let's just strip-mine the whole motherfucker! No one lives here anyway!"
tex-wyo-dem
(3,190 posts)You notice the article talks about the state's loss of revenues...that's largely due to all the coal strip mines shutting down.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,608 posts)the Centralia Power Plant, in Centralia, Washington. There, the coal is burned to generate the electricity that, with electricity from other sources, powers the computers of western Washington state.
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Fuel supply
Seventy percent of sub-bituminous coal used by the plant was delivered by truck from the nearby Centralia Coal Mine, which was a strip mine and the largest coal mine in the state of Washington, until it closed down on November 27, 2006. Coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming has also been transported by rail to be burned at the plant since 1989, but was only used to supplement Centralia Coal mine coal until 2006. By 2008, the plant was burning 100% Powder River basin coal. Recent rail upgrades to the Centralia Power Plant, and SO2 scrubber upgrades to ensure plant releases less pollution, will ensure the plant runs for at least another 1520 years. Centralia currently burns nine 110 car coal trains a week.
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Ownership
From the early 1970s until 2000, the plant was owned by eight utilities: PacifiCorp (47.5%), Avista Energy (15%), Seattle City Light (8%), Snohomish County PUD (8%), Tacoma Power (8%), Puget Sound Energy (7%), Grays Harbor County PUD (4%), and Portland General Electric (2.5%).
Plans to sell the plant began in 1998. In 2000, Portland General Electric sold its 2.5 percent share to Avista Energy, shortly before the plant was sold in its entirety to TransAlta Corporation for $554 million that same year.
The coal cars in unit trains have a carrying capacity of 100 tons up to 120 tons.
tex-wyo-dem
(3,190 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)...never been there, just seen it in many great cowboy movies.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,608 posts)I'm trying to recall a cowboy movie set in the Tetons. Admittedly, I'm no expert.
Most of the classics, especially the John Ford westerns, were set in the Monument Valley. "Once Upon a Time in the West" was filmed in Spain, but there's one scene that looks like it's in the Monument Valley.
List of appearances of Monument Valley in the media
Make that two scenes in "Once Upon a Time in the West."
The closest movie setting I can think of to the Grand Tetons was "A River Runs Through It," which was filmed around Bozeman, Montana. That's the Bozeman Northern Pacific depot you see in the film.
Best wishes.
ETA: What would I do without Wikipedia?
Teton Range
Jackson Hole and the Tetons have been the setting for a number of films, including John Wayne's movie acting debut in The Big Trail in 1930 and the western film classic, Shane in 1953.[4] Mount Moran and the surrounding mountains were used as a backdrop for the lake/swamp setting in the original series of Land of the Lost (1974 TV series).
Shane? I didn't know that.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
The highest grossing Rocky movie spins a tale around Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) taking on Soviet nemesis Ivan Drago (Dolf Lundgren). Once in Russia, Rocky shows off his might in a brawny workout scene in the Siberian countryside, proving once again that exercising in nature tops any high-tech gym (especially when deep-snow jogging, wood sawing and dog-sled pulling are part of the package). But we digress. The point here is that scenes in the rustic Russian countryside are actually located around Wyoming's Jackson Hole with many of the outdoor scenic shots being filmed at Grand Teton National Park.
Other movies filmed at Grand Teton: Shane, 1953.
http://wilderness.org/18-biggest-national-park-and-forest-cameos-movies
Read More: The Top 5 Movies Filmed in Wyoming | http://kingfm.com/the-top-5-movies-filmed-in-wyoming/?trackback=tsmclip
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Kind of "Othello" with spurs.
Great scenery. Great plot. Great actors. Just a great film.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,608 posts)As cheap as I am, I'm not about to pay to watch television. Whatever comes in over the air, that's what I watch. One of the channels available to me in northern Virginia runs western incessantly. GetTV - yeah, that sounds right. Channel 14.2 in DC. I'm pretty sure they ran Jubal not so long ago. They've been running a lot of Glenn Ford movies.
They also ran Used Cars a few weeks back, and unlike This TV, they didn't cut the naughty scenes, though they did blur the parts the FCC doesn't want you to see. This TV removed the naughty scenes entirely.
The majority of GetTV's nighttime and weekend schedule consists primarily of feature films; films populated the majority of the network's schedule prior to May 2016, with the exception of a three-hour breakaway on Fridays for children's programming, and additional breakaways added in October 2015 for classic television series on Saturday afternoons, Sunday mornings and Monday nights. Films featured on the network primarily consist of Columbia Pictures releases distributed through Sony Pictures Television; it also carries titles from other film studios, such as Universal Pictures (distributed through NBCUniversal Television Distribution).
The network's film roster concentrates on classic films from the 1930s to the 1960s (during the period commonly known as the "Golden Age of Cinema" , largely those released before the 1968 implementation of the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system and the disestablishment of the Production Code; however on very rare occasions, the network airs select films made after 1970 (such as 1978's The Buddy Holly Story, which first aired on GetTV in October 2014). GetTV presents its feature film broadcasts mostly uncut (as such, some 1960s film titles are omitted for broadcast due to inappropriate content, in order to preserve the unedited nature of the network's film broadcasts) and uncolorized (with the only films presented in color being those that were natively filmed or post-produced in the format); movies are also televised in their original aspect ratio (either widescreen or full-screen) whenever possible, although widescreen films are shown in a letterboxed format since the network transmits in the 4:3 aspect ratio. Most films originally shot in the "scope" 2.35:1 ratio are reformatted in the 1.85:1 ratio for broadcast on the network.
GetTV also commonly features themed movie presentations especially during its prime time and late night schedule, starting at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time each evening (except on Mondays and Wednesdays, due to classic television series showcases that air during prime time on that night) showcasing films that are based around either a particular film genre, theme or film actor during part or all of a given night's schedule, similar to the nighttime scheduling used by Turner Classic Movies (which also maintains rights to the Sony Pictures film library); these may be formatted as a double feature (that is either replayed later in the evening, as with the Tuesday and Saturday night lineups; or consists of a single film that is repeated immediately after the initial broadcast, as with the Sunday and Wednesday night lineups) or a showcase of four different films. Among its regular offerings, the network runs "Get Out of Town," a block of western films on Saturday evenings, the "Icon of the Week," a Friday night block focusing on the earliest and best works of a well-known film star and "Silver Screen Favorites," a Sunday evening showcase of a particular movie classic.
I was given a widescreen, flat screen TV for
Thanks.
Glorfindel
(9,734 posts)I actually teared-up a bit, flying out of Jackson Hole, thinking that I'd probably never see the Grand Tetons again.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)...I'd love to visit there and kayak.
Glorfindel
(9,734 posts)and coming back up, I got out of breath, had to stop for a moment. Finally figured out that it's the altitude. The lake is (I believe) 6,000 or more above sea level, and even though I was in pretty good shape at that time, the lower oxygen level is really noticeable.
klook
(12,166 posts)The Tetons are overwhelming in person. Truly inspiring. And Yellowstone is like going to another planet!
MH1
(17,600 posts)Seriously, it just occurred to me to wonder if the government or agencies like NPS could just do GoFundMe or their own version to raise money for specific initiatives. Hey it works for people to get their weddings funded. Why not use it for worthwhile causes?
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,608 posts)liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)Love Yellowstone and Grand Tetons, We have not been up there for 15 years and miss it.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)This is some of the most beautiful country we have..