Tell Wyoming Officials
Stop the Auction
in Grand Teton National Park
Keep Public Lands in Public Hands
The Wyoming Office of State Lands and Investments is considering auctioning off 640 acres of State Trust Land within Grand Teton National Park.
Hearings are scheduled across the state in November, and written public comments are being accepted through 5 p.m. Dec. 1.
Tell the Wyoming Board of Land Commissioners to Stop the Auction and to give the Wyoming Legislature the opportunity to protect our Public Lands.
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Say ‘NO’ to trophy homes and loss of public access
This could be the first time a state has auctioned off public lands within a national park and is an invitation for developers and billionaires to buy up public land, fence it off, and shut down public access.
Say ‘YES’ to a common-sense sale or transfer to GTNP
The best outcome is to sell the Kelly Parcel to the National Park Service so it can be permanently protected within GTNP for generations to come.
If you want to see the greatest amount of political scorn rain down on this state that you’ve ever seen, just put this in an auction situation. We’d absolutely be the scorn of this nation, and we’d never recover from it. We need to be smarter than that.
Former Wyo. House Speaker Kermit Brown, R-Laramie.
Minimum number of trophy homes that could be built within the boundaries of GTNP if the Kelly Parcel is sold off at auction.
Estimated annual return state would see if the Kelly Parcel is transferred to the National Park Service for its most recent $62.4M valuation and proceeds are invested to benefit Wyoming Schools.
Number of years since Congress passed the Grand Teton National Park Land Exchange Act that authorized federal acquisition of the State Trust Lands within the park. It’s time to get this deal done.
Number of greedy billionaires, hedge fund vultures, or foreign entities needed to buy up and fence off Kelly Parcel to the public and wildlife under the Land Board’s proposed auction.
It is possible to stop the auction and to protect our Public Lands. But only if we speak up!
Tell the Wyoming Board of Land Commissioners to Stop the Auction and to give the Wyoming Legislature the opportunity to protect our Public Lands.
I don’t know that there is a more important inholding in the National Park System.
Rob Wallace, former U.S. Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks