‘Thoroughly disappointed,’ Wyoming Game and Fish urges reversal of Grand Targhee expansion approval

The decision left Wyoming Game and Fish Director Angi Bruce “thoroughly disappointed,” she wrote in a July 13 comment letter about Grand Targhee Resort’s approved expansion. In that document, Caribou-Targhee officials disclosed potential bighorn sheep population declines as a result of the ski area’s expansion. A forthcoming review process could make the Targhee expansion more favorable to Bruce and her Wyoming Game and Fish colleagues. There are also numerous comments from wildlife-focused advocacy groups that objected to the high-profile Teton bighorn sheep herd’s expected habitat loss. “The loss of the Teton Range bighorn sheep herd, or its reduction to a remnant population requiring augmentation, is permanent.”