Teton Conservation District

Teton Conservation District will be at @jacksonecofair this Saturday, come find us! 🌿 📖 Pick up a free Mountain Neighbor Handbook (available in English & Spanish) Stop by for information & resources on: 🔥 Wildfire Risk Overviews 🌱 Native plants & our 2026 Native Plant Sale 🚰 Well Test Kits 🥕 Growing your own food at home … and more! We’re excited to connect with our community on local stewardship & sustainability efforts. See you there! 👋 🗓️ Saturday, May 16 📍 Phil Baux Green Space #JacksonHole #EcoFair

📣 Calling all landscapers, maintenance staff, and lawn care professionals in Teton County! You have one week left to complete the 2026 Trout Friendly Landscaper Certification, open online through May 15th. 🐟⏰ Since 2020, the Trout Friendly Landscaper Certification program has trained over 35 local landscaping business to create and maintain beautiful, sustainable lawns while reducing fertilizer and pesticide runoff into Teton County’s waterways. The certification is FREE and covers: 🌿 Landscaping with native plants 💧 Water conservation 🚫 Responsible pesticide & fertilizer use and more! Just complete a short video series and quiz at your own pace. Not a landscaper? Encourage yours to get certified. ➡️ Click the link in bio to get certified before May 15th. #TroutFriendly #TetonConservationDistrict #LandscapersOfWyoming #SustainableLandscaping

Silver Stream is known for year-round indoor farming, but this crew knows outdoor too. This summer, we're planting our first crops outdoors at 8,000 ft. We're trialing a variety of hardy crops and will expand next year with the ones that love the Wyoming wind, soil, and high elevation. We're feeling especially grateful to Sublette County Conservation District and Teton Conservation District for partnering together and supporting us on this project. Our harvests feed almost an equal number of customers in both counties. It's a great example of collaboration and we're thrilled to have their support. You'll see more of Morgan in the coming months as she gets plants in the ground and harvests on your plates.

Earth Day is water day. Unfortunately, the Upper Snake River headwaters have less of it this spring than any other time in recorded history (just 54 percent of the median.) That means less dilution for our pollution and hotter water for our cold-loving trout. Simple things you can do to mitigate the impacts on our beloved river: -Compost food waste to eliminate the use of garbage disposals -Inspect and pump your septic system -Pick up pet waste and trash it -Limit fertilization and switch to slow-release organic fertilizer -Maintain a buffer of un-manicured landscaping beside water -Replace lawns with meadow areas of native grasses

We’re very excited to have @tetonconservation supporting EcoFair this year. Teton Conservation District is a local government entity whose mission is to work with the community in the conservation of natural resources for the health and benefit of people and the environment. They work across the county to address environmental challenges, promote long-term ecosystem sustainability, and steward our community’s natural resources in collaboration with landowners, nonprofits, government agencies, and local businesses. One of their signature resources? The Mountain Neighbor Handbook: A Local’s Guide to Stewardship in Teton County. This free 52-page guide covers everything from wildlife and habitat to energy and waste—helping residents navigate life in this wild place and become local environmental stewards. The handbook is available online in English and Spanish at mountainneighbor.org. Be sure to swing by TCD’s booth at EcoFair to pick up a copy!

🌿 We’re excited to announce that a new community garden is taking root in Wilson! In partnership with Slow Food in the Tetons @tetonslowfood , we’re bringing a new garden to our Wilson Campus, affectionately known as “Mad Dog,” which will feature 46 individual plots and expand the Community Gardens Program by approximately 30 families and residents. A 19% increase from 2025! This new garden site expands access to growing space and provides a unique opportunity for place-based learning, offering a space for the community to learn, collaborate, and deepen their relationship with the natural world. We’re thrilled to partner with Slow Food in the Tetons to make this garden a reality and celebrate their leadership in creating programs rooted in good, clean, and fair food for all. 🌱 Dig in & learn more: /community-garden 📷: Mountain Academy Teton Valley Campus students sport a Slow Food in the Tetons hat at the school’s farm and garden program. Co This project was funded in partnership with Teton Conservation District @tetonconservation to build the community garden and to ensure that best practices were implemented throughout the process.

Happy National Agriculture Day! 🌱🧑‍🌾 TCD is proud to celebrate the deep legacy of local ranchers, farmers, and growers who help sustain Teton County’s local food system. We pulled up some historical archive photos for the occasion. 📸🏔️ Our Agricultural Conservation Planting Program is here to support the community, whether you’re hoping to grow food in your own backyard, start a community garden, or something in between. 🪴Grants up to $500 are available for residential-scale gardening infrastructure. 🥬Up to $2,000 is available for community garden projects. 🪏Up to $5,000 is available for commercial greenhouses and high tunnels. 🫜Up to $10,000 is offered for large-scale conservation tillage and cover crop practices. Learn more at the link in our bio or reach out at [email protected]. Photo 1: ‘Hay Bales’ - TCD Historical Archives Photo 2: ‘Feeding Cattle On Winter Range 1954’ - TCD Historical Archives Photo 3: ‘People in Fields’ - TCD Historical Archives Photo 4: ‘North Teton Pipe 1960’ - TCD Historical Archives #nationalagday #tetoncounty #conservation #agriculture

Along the Snake River, manmade levees serve as flood protection, but the riprap (the piles of large, jagged rocks that make up the levees) create a potential barrier for wildlife migrating or seeking food, water, and shelter. For ungulates like elk, deer, and moose, these rocks are often unsteady and have deep gaps where a leg can easily get caught. In 2022 and 2023, JHWF, TCD, and other partners worked together to install 24 wildlife ramps extending north and south of the Wilson Bridge. Constructed of soil and smaller rocks, these ramps provide easier wildlife passage across the levees. In this video, a number of different ungulates are seen using the ramps. #wildlife #wyomingwildlife #jacksonhole

From the early bird to the night owl, everyone’s using the 22-390 crossing structures! 🦌 Join us for #CrossingChronicles over the next couple of weeks to catch glimpses of the diverse wildlife using these structures. We are honored to have been a part of this work and thank our partners—Wyoming Department of Transportation, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Teton County, and Teton Conservation District—for making these structures a reality. Stay tuned for more #CrossingChronicles! 📸: WYDOT and WGFD Images of wildlife moving through underpass: Mountain lion, mule deer buck, bull moose, elk herd, striped skunk. #wildlife #wildlifecrossing #wyoming

As a reminder, our Partners in Conservation (PIC) grant applications are due February 1, 2026 at 5:00 pm!! ⭐️ We prioritize projects that demonstrate a benefit to the environment and/or community in one or more of the following grant categories: Land, Water, Vegetation, Wildlife, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Sustainability, and Education. 🏞️🧑‍🌾🦌🌿🗺️📚♻️ Information and application instructions can be found at the link in our bio or by contacting us at 733-2110 or [email protected]. #tetonconservationdistrict #conservation #grants #conservationgrants #partnersinconservation #wildlife #land #vegetation #gis #sustainability #water #education #tetoncounty

Thank you SO much to everyone who supported us this year!! 2025 was incredible and we can’t wait to do it all again in 2026. 🦌🌿🫶🏞️🧑‍🌾🌲🐝🌎

Now accepting grant applications! 🌿🦌🥕🏞️ Partners in Conservation (PIC) grant applications are due February 1, 2026 at 5:00 pm. We prioritize projects that demonstrate a benefit to the environment and/or community in one or more of the following grant categories: Land, Water, Vegetation, Wildlife, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Sustainability, and Education. Information and application instructions can be found at the link in our bio or by contacting us at 733-2110 or [email protected]. #tetonconservationdistrict #conservation #grants #conservationgrants #partnersinconservation #wildlife #land #vegetation #gis #sustainability #water #education #tetoncounty