Wyoming Game and Fish is re-evaluating whether it wants to take on ownership of several riparian parcels scattered along the Snake River in Teton County.
More than a decade ago the Bureau of Land Management announced it wished to dispose of 24 parcels from the Snake’s confluence with the Gros Ventre River to South Park.
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