'No recovery from this': Grand Teton National Park advocates sound alarm bells [View all]

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NATIONAL PARKS
'No recovery from this': Grand Teton National Park advocates sound alarm bells over possible sell-off
A GOP bill puts public lands for sale. Its effects on Grand Teton National Park could be irreversible.

By Kylie Mohr,
Big Sky Country Contributing Parks Editor
June 20, 2025

Senate Republicans recently proposed the sale of up to 3.29 million acres of public land across 11 Western states. While Grand Teton National Park and other national parks themselves aren’t on the chopping block, large swaths of national forest and Bureau of Land Management lands could potentially be sold and developed.

The Wilderness Society analyzed the reconciliation bill’s limitations and then released a map showing the more than 258 million acres eligible for sale if Senate Republicans’ proposal is included in President Donald Trump’s tax bill.

That includes much of the national forests that surround Grand Teton National Park: the Bridger-Teton National Forest on the east side of Jackson Hole and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, which directly borders the western side of the Tetons.

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