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Feature: Easements
Do conservation easements protect open space and wildlife at the expense of the Jackson Hole community?. When Claire Fuller steps outside her home on the Huidekoper Ranch in Wilson, it’s as if she’s seeing a scene from Teton County’s past: This small, high-alpine farming operation, which supplies local markets and restaurants with quality produce, also has a smattering of open fields supporting a horse-boarding and haying operation. And a couple of greenhouses, sheds, and two modest homes flanked by aspen and pine forests round out the 140-acre property, home to Fuller, her husband, Brent Tyc, and her brother Nate Fuller.
Local Life: Books
Wild Sugar: Seasonal Sweet Treats Inspired by the Mountain West. From her ranch in Freedom, Wyoming, Lindsey Johnson delivers this lifestyle cookbook of seasonal desserts and sweet treats, innovative table settings, and serving ideas. These are combined with fun stories of animal antics, holidays, her family’s adventures, and Wyoming life.
Enjoy: JH Pantry
Once it hits 11 a.m. at Sweet Cheeks Meats, lunch is served. A post on the company’s Instagram story, (@sweetcheeksmeats) shows the day’s menu options. These could include the Brisket Burg, a pulled-pork sandwich, a Cubano, a grinder, or the Bliss (house-made ham, European butter, Dijon, and Swiss cheese on a 460 Bread baguette). Soon enough, a line of locals stretches out the door. “I’m looking at their lunch menu every day,” says Jason Bruni, who has been eating Sweet Cheeks sandwiches since the husband-and-wife team of Nick and Nora Phillips founded the business at the Jackson Hole Farmer’s Market in 2015. “Although I’ll still go in even when they aren’t doing any of my favorites. Then I let them choose for me. I’ve never had anything that I wasn’t stoked about.”
Feature: Photo Gallery
Place names in our valley come from many different sources—from the Shoshone language to early explorers and historic characters. In 1924, when today’s Grand Teton National Park was still the Teton National Forest, cattle rancher, conservationist, and entrepreneur Stephen Leek founded a hunting and fishing camp in the quiet cove on Jackson Lake that today is Leek’s Marina. He applied for a Forest Service permit for “a resort for the accommodation of tourists,” completing construction in 1927. In summer, it was “Teton Camp for Boys,” and in the fall, a home base for guided hunting trips. The permit and business changed hands many times and is today a boat launch and lakefront pizzeria. Leek first arrived in the valley as a trapper in 1888 and became one of its first permanent residents. He homesteaded on Flat Creek and began cattle ranching and was one of the first to suggest management of elk, using a camera gifted to him by hunting client and founder of Eastman Kodak, George Eastman, to document the plight of the herds whose migrations and grazing were harmed by fencing and livestock. His work helped to found the National Elk Refuge in 1912.
Enjoy: Health
Once only available in metropolitan areas, elective IV therapy, which might help with issues ranging from dehydration to vitamin deficiencies, has come to. A 45-year-old single mom, Tibby Plasse describes herself as “someone who is always trying to figure out how to make my body feel better.” She adds: “As a perimenopausal woman, nutritional IVs keep me going completely normally and help with a load of things. I am definitely a believer, and it makes a lot of sense for me.”
Enjoy: Culture
As e-bikes explode in popularity, Jackson Hole is trying to figure out where they should be allowed. Midway up the initial steep, gravelly climb out of Grove Creek in Idaho’s Big Hole Mountains, I heard a polite cough behind me. Startled, I pulled my bike off to the side, glad for a chance to stop, catch my breath, and let my pounding heart slow down. A pair of cool-looking (as in not huffing and puffing) bikers pedaled past. One glance at the bottom tubes on their bike frames told the story: they were riding electric mountain bikes, or e-MTBS, and they looked like they were having fun. Real fun. Not the kind of “fun after it’s over fun” that I was experiencing.
Feature: Water
Laws say that water in the West must be put to “beneficial use.” Historically, that has meant agriculture, but could recreation and ecosystem health enter the conversation?. // By Molly Absolon. // photography by bradly j. boner. One of the most visited places in Jackson Hole is the...
Explore: Public Art
Take an urban public art walk, and please sit on the swings and benches along the way—they’re the ultimate in functional art. A brightly painted chairlift in downtown Jackson might seem random, but in this mountain town, there’s nothing nonsensical about turning retired chairlifts from Snow King Ski Area into public art. Each chair is fun to look at and also functions as either a bench or a swing. Largescale murals in downtown alleyways aren’t as obviously functional, but they share conservation themes while encouraging viewers to pause for a photo op.
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