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The Teton Pass collapsed in the most economically unequal county in the country
What happens when 40 percent of the workforce has to live somewhere else, and even doctors can’t afford to buy in town.
Slightly malevolently, as a Wilson resident in a minuscule rented cabin, I rejoiced: Perhaps Teton County, Wyoming, would have finally have to deal with the utterly foreseeable, wholly ignored, miserable socioeconomic problems of its creation. It’s been the symbol of a failed community for years: Here it closed for avalanches, or icy surfaces; now for an accident; or when large trucks lose their brakes on the hairy descent into Wilson, and crash into trees, or the gas station, or overturn and spill their cargo all over the road. “We’re fighting multiple proposals by people with [cumulative] billions, with donated money, and even though we are part of one of two intact ecosystems left, we are losing serious connectivity every day,” says Jenny Fitzgerald, a wildlife biologist and executive director of the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance.
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