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As Park County Open Lands hosted its first community picnic Saturday, the fact that it sold out despite the rainy weather was far from the only example of its reach so soon after its founding.
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As Park County Open Lands hosted its first community picnic Saturday, the fact that it sold out despite the rainy weather was far from the only example of its reach so soon after its founding.
Regional Director Alex Few said the group is currently working on five conservation projects, including one in Powell that, if taken to fruition, could be the first conservation of row cropland that parent organization Jackson Hole Land Trust has ever accomplished.
“We’ve been in existence for four months,” Few said. “And the quickest we can get anything done is 12 months.”
The projects, she said, range from Sunlight Basin to Clark, the South Fork to Powell, covering 1,914 acres of farmland, ranch land and an education center.
“The diversity of projects underscores the value a community led land trust,” she said. “We’ve seen unprecedented interest."
Park County Open Lands is a community-led program of the Jackson Hole Land Trust, which works to protect and steward Park County’s open lands, including working agricultural lands and wildlife habitat.
