Grand Teton National Park has acquired a 35-acre parcel inside the park’s southwest boundary.
The park announced the acquisition last weekend as it marked the 93rd anniversary of its establishment.
The national nonprofit The Conservation Fund purchased the parcel from the Hauge, Laughlin and Resor families, and the park purchased the land from the nonprofit. The transaction used funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), a federal grants program that provides the finances for acquiring and developing local and federal public outdoor recreation and water conservation.
The Great American Outdoors Act passed in 2020 guarantees the permanent full funding of the LWCF of up to $900 million a year provided by offshore energy royalties.
This is the fourth parcel in the southwest corner of the park Grand Teton has purchased over the last 20 years in cooperation with The Conservation Fund and the three families.
Of the six original “inholdings” within the park when it was formed on Feb. 26, 1929, only 2 remain in private hands.
