Wyoming reaches agreement for sale of land inside Grand Teton National Park
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Source: KPVI, Channel 6 in Pocatello, Idaho
Wyoming reaches agreement for sale of land inside Grand Teton National Park
Jackson, WY Updated 10 hrs ago
On Monday, Wyoming and the United States Department of the Interior announced an agreement to conserve hundreds of acres of unprotected land inside Grand Teton National Park all while helping the state's students.
640 acres of unprotected land within Grand Teton National Park known as the Antelope Flats Parcel is owned by the State of Wyoming School Trust. Wyoming Governor Matt Mead and Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell reached an agreement for the state to sell the land to National Parks Service. ... "We are hopefully that from today that we are going to get this parcel sold to the parks service and get it done by the end of the year," said Mead.
The parcel of land sits in the middle of Grand Teton National Park. The 640 acres are valued at $46 million dollars. The federal government has already pledged $23 million dollars to the purchase with the Nation Park Service coming up with the other half. If the money can't be raised the land will go up for auction for possible commercial use. ... "It would be devastating for wildlife corridors, for the visitor experience, and also for that historic iconic view ship," said David Vela, Grand Teton National Park Superintendent.
Wyoming is experiencing a severe drop in revenues so the sale of the Antelope Flat Parcel would go toward education in the state. Governor Mead says it's important for them to sell the land to park services so it can conserved. ... "It gives us some comfort to know what I'm enjoying today with my kids, my kids will enjoy with my grandkids and it will look like this," said Mead.
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If you watched Ken Burns's series on the National Parks, you know that acquiring land in the Jackson Hole valley, which is between Jackson, Wyoming, and the southern border of Yellowstone National Park was - and still is - a convoluted process. After some complex negotiations, Wyoming, and now Alaska, have ended up as the two states in which a presidential exercise of the Antiquities Act requires Congressional consent or ratification.
Because of the Constitutional intricacies required, this story is of national importance.
The Rockefeller family and the president of the Northern Pacific Railway, Frederick Billings, are part of this story too. Perhaps you've heard of the city named after him - Billings, Montana.
Antiquities Act
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Reduction of powers
Presidential powers under the Act have been reduced twice. The first time followed the unpopular proclamation of Jackson Hole National Monument in 1943. The 1950 law that incorporated Jackson Hole into an enlarged Grand Teton National Park also amended the Antiquities Act, requiring Congressional consent for any future creation or enlargement of National Monuments in Wyoming. The second time followed Jimmy Carter's use of the Act to create fifty-six million acres (230,000 km²) of National Monuments in Alaska. The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act requires Congressional ratification of the use of the Antiquities Act in Alaska for withdrawals of greater than 5,000 acres (20.2 km²).
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...never been there, just seen it in many great cowboy movies.
Kind of "Othello" with spurs.
Great scenery. Great plot. Great actors. Just a great film.
As cheap as I am, I'm not about to pay to watch television. Whatever comes in over the air, that's what I watch. One of the channels available to me in northern Virginia runs western incessantly. GetTV - yeah, that sounds right. Channel 14.2 in DC. I'm pretty sure they ran Jubal not so long ago. They've been running a lot of Glenn Ford movies.
They also ran Used Cars a few weeks back, and unlike This TV, they didn't cut the naughty scenes, though they did blur the parts the FCC doesn't want you to see. This TV removed the naughty scenes entirely.
The majority of GetTV's nighttime and weekend schedule consists primarily of feature films; films populated the majority of the network's schedule prior to May 2016, with the exception of a three-hour breakaway on Fridays for children's programming, and additional breakaways added in October 2015 for classic television series on Saturday afternoons, Sunday mornings and Monday nights. Films featured on the network primarily consist of Columbia Pictures releases distributed through Sony Pictures Television; it also carries titles from other film studios, such as Universal Pictures (distributed through NBCUniversal Television Distribution).
The network's film roster concentrates on classic films from the 1930s to the 1960s (during the period commonly known as the "Golden Age of Cinema"
, largely those released before the 1968 implementation of the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system and the disestablishment of the Production Code; however on very rare occasions, the network airs select films made after 1970 (such as 1978's The Buddy Holly Story, which first aired on GetTV in October 2014). GetTV presents its feature film broadcasts mostly uncut (as such, some 1960s film titles are omitted for broadcast due to inappropriate content, in order to preserve the unedited nature of the network's film broadcasts) and uncolorized (with the only films presented in color being those that were natively filmed or post-produced in the format); movies are also televised in their original aspect ratio (either widescreen or full-screen) whenever possible, although widescreen films are shown in a letterboxed format since the network transmits in the 4:3 aspect ratio. Most films originally shot in the "scope" 2.35:1 ratio are reformatted in the 1.85:1 ratio for broadcast on the network.
GetTV also commonly features themed movie presentations – especially during its prime time and late night schedule, starting at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time each evening (except on Mondays and Wednesdays, due to classic television series showcases that air during prime time on that night) – showcasing films that are based around either a particular film genre, theme or film actor during part or all of a given night's schedule, similar to the nighttime scheduling used by Turner Classic Movies (which also maintains rights to the Sony Pictures film library); these may be formatted as a double feature (that is either replayed later in the evening, as with the Tuesday and Saturday night lineups; or consists of a single film that is repeated immediately after the initial broadcast, as with the Sunday and Wednesday night lineups) or a showcase of four different films. Among its regular offerings, the network runs "Get Out of Town," a block of western films on Saturday evenings, the "Icon of the Week," a Friday night block focusing on the earliest and best works of a well-known film star and "Silver Screen Favorites," a Sunday evening showcase of a particular movie classic.
I was given a widescreen, flat screen TV for
Thanks.
and coming back up, I got out of breath, had to stop for a moment. Finally figured out that it's the altitude. The lake is (I believe) 6,000 or more above sea level, and even though I was in pretty good shape at that time, the lower oxygen level is really noticeable. 
This is some of the most beautiful country we have..
