Teton Regional Land Trust

The Teton Regional Land Trust is hiring! Want to work with a talented team to help protect some of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem's best working lands, fish and wildlife habitats, and scenic open spaces? This is the place!

Join the Teton Regional Land Trust's executive director Kim Trotter for the Museum of Idaho's Museum club tomorrow afternoon for a seminar on Connecting Habitat, Connecting Communities - why landscape scale conservation matters.

We’re $9,150 away from our goal of $25,000! Your donation directly supports our work to ensure eastern Idaho can enjoy clean rivers and streams, abundant wildlife, inspiring vistas, working lands and a thriving economy. Remember your gift will be doubled! $5=$10, $25=$50 or $100=$200 h t Click here to donate: https://lnkd.in/g8_SGej9 Donate any amount during Idaho Gives from April 29-May 2 to be entered in a raffle to win a TRLT hat, TRLT coasters, and a postcard set featuring work from local photographers. . . . #tetonlandtrust #idahogives #conservation #agriculture #protectourlands 

Last week, the Board of the Idaho Coalition of Land Trusts (ICOLT) met at The Nature Conservancy’s Silver Creek Preserve. ICOLT helps provide professional excellence for voluntary land conservation in Idaho that provides financial support, legislative oversight, and networking opportunities in Idaho. The Teton Regional Land Trust is proud to be a member and serve on the ICOLT Board.

The Teton Regional Land Trust is #hiring a stewardship associate or coordinator, based on experience. Join our team! #landconservation #stewardship #landtrust #conservationjobs #conservationcareers

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We are proud to be a partner with the American Farmland Trust to help eastern Idaho’s farmers and ranchers find ways to retire while keeping their land in production. Thanks, AFT, NRCS, and eastern Idaho’s agricultural producers.

The Wyoming Migration Initiative at the University of Wyoming partnered with Grand Teton National Park to put together the film "Animal Trails: Rediscovering Grand Teton Migrations," which shares the story of Grand Teton wildlife migrations and the surrounding lands and people that sustain them. The Teton River Canyon mule deer herd and Clen Atchley, a conservation easement landowner and past Teton Regional Land Trust Board Member, are highlighted starting at minute seven. Private land conservation started in the Teton River Canyon landscape 25 years ago with a 760-acre conservation easement donated to Teton Regional Land Trust (TRLT) in 1998. Since then, over 2,180 acres along the Bitch and Badger Creek corridors have been protected through permanent conservation easements held by TRLT and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and strategic fee title acquisitions through a partnership between The Conservation Fund and Bureau of Land Management. Our most recent 183-acre easement in that landscape, protecting over one mile of frontage along Bitch Creek, was completed in December 2022 and donated by the Fosdick family. Right now, our land protection staff is working toward another conservation easement in the Teton River Canyon protecting more critical migratory habitat. Over the past five years, there's been renewed interest in this landscape--coinciding with the mule deer research of Grand Teton National Park and Idaho Department of Fish and Game, which is described in this film. This work has helped TRLT and our partners focus our efforts where we can work with private landowners and have the greatest impact for mule deer that depend on this system. This story is a great reminder of why we do the work we do--and a reminder of the impact this work has in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Private lands conservation is critical to the future of wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Area. What we have here is irreplaceable. Once it's gone, it's gone forever. THANK YOU for all YOU do to help keep the large animal migrations and the open agricultural landscapes they depend on intact!

The Trumpeter Swan cygnets that we helped release this summer have fledged, which means they're now exploring wetlands around Teton Valley! We'd appreciate your help keeping tabs on them. The next few weeks are an important time for making observations, as other swans from further north will soon make their way to the region, which will make identifying our cygnets more difficult. If you see a swan, please make sure not to disturb them while making your observations. Take note of the time and place of the observation, and whether the swan has a neck collar and/or leg band. Try to read the ID on the leg band (a letter followed by two numbers), which is often easiest when they are "tip-feeding" and their legs are above water. Binoculars are a huge help, but taking a photo and zooming in can work as well. Then, report your observation using the form on our website, linked below. Thanks for your help monitoring these new Teton Valley neighbors! Photo credit: Linda M. Swope https://lnkd.in/g-4Qfihf ... See Less View

Last week, Land Trust staff observed hundreds of Sandhill Cranes riding an updraft and then leaving Teton Valley to head south to their wintering grounds. We hope they got their fill of barley from our Grain for Cranes program before their journey! Thank you to everyone who attended the Crane Festival or donated to the Greater Yellowstone Sandhill Crane Initiative for making that possible. In case you missed it, check out this video of our Stewardship Assistant, Nicole Cyr, monitoring cranes on protected wetland habitat.