Teton County WY wants a July workshop on Targhee’s ripple effects

If your winter starts at the Targhee lot but your paychecks, rentals, and grocery runs are spread across the state line, Teton County, Wyoming is trying to get the grown-ups in the room before the Grand Targhee expansion fight hardens into camps.

In a set of invitation letters, the county is asking the cities of Driggs and Victor, Teton County, Idaho commissioners, and Grand Teton National Park (plus other partners) to join a one-day facilitated workshop in mid-July focused on “cross-jurisdictional socioeconomic effects” of the proposed resort master development and expansion. The county says it has engaged the University of Wyoming’s Ruckelshaus Institute, working with the University of Idaho’s McClure Center, and is even floating the idea that invited governments could “contribute financially” to the workshop. The asks are simple and telling: pick dates, and help secure a meeting location in Driggs, where the impacts on housing, roads, and seasonal workforce are already not theoretical. Source: Joint Workshop Invitations — Grand Targhee Ski Resort Expansion.