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JACKSON — Jay and Karen Kemmerer, known for their long tenure owning Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, have donated $5 million to the University of Wyoming to expand an existing tourism research initiative. Energy has long been Wyoming’s largest industry, which the University of Wyoming has supported with its School of Energy Resources. While the university has had another school dedicated to environmental issues since 1994 — the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources — it has only had a dedicated tourism program since 2021. The tourism...
JACKSON - When Tenley Thompson decided to try being the voice of a famous grizzly bear online, she didn't start with Grizzly 399, the most famous bear in the world. Instead, she started with her daughter, Grizzly 610. Unlike 399, who was relatively tolerant of human presence, 610 is known for having an attitude - a comportment that Thompson thought would play well on Twitter, which was ballooning at the time. "She's charged plenty of people," Thompson said of 610. "My favorite is when they tried...
JACKSON - Rain and snow fell Saturday evening on Town Square as a group of soaked, candle-holding mourners listened to wildlife guide Bo Welden talk about one of his life's most meaningful, one-way relationships. "Seeing 399 is like falling in love for the first time," he said. "Every time you got to see her, it was kind of like you forgot to breathe. You will just bail on your friends and your family to go spend time with that first love. And I argue people do that with 399 all the time."...
ETHETE - In the mid-1980s, Merle Haas got a call. Representatives of the Episcopal Church of Wyoming wanted her to meet them in Laramie. Haas, who is Northern Arapaho, drove to St. Matthew's Cathedral, the seat of church leadership. There, she was led into a dark room, packed with boxes. In the boxes were artifacts - everyday clothes, as well as toys, and sacred objects that Northern Arapaho people had traded a church official for food in the mid-1900s. Haas panicked. She didn't know what to...
JACKSON — For the first time in recent memory, a small herd of horses was grazing outside the Teton County Library. Inside, their owner, Jake Hutton, wore a worn, drooping cowboy hat as he regaled state officials with his thoughts on why 640 acres of state land near Kelly shouldn’t be auctioned off. Hutton grazes his small herd on the parcel, which is just east of Grand Teton National Park, and runs an outfitting business there. He’d like to keep that job, but couldn’t if a developer buys th...