Yesterday I posted an article about the bankruptcy of ultra luxury mountain communities — Yelllowstone Club, Promontory, and Tamarack.
Here is one of a number still unbuilt, and now being canceled.
“An ambitious plan to turn the mostly empty land around Bridger Bowl’s base area into a high-class, king-sized ski, recreation and residential village has been withdrawn.” Developer pulls Bridger Bowl village plan. By Dave Richardson. Bozeman Chronicle.
More. Resort Market not holding, Bridger Bowl Ski Area Developers Withdraw Resort Plans. New West. By Lucia Stewart.
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
Like I noted in my earlier comment on the article posted yesterday, now is the time for Gallatin Valley Land Trust and the local open space tax program staff to sit down with the owners and the ski area folks to cherrypick and buy the nicest ecological portions of this property. The less-sensitive parts would remain to be used for future base development – the time is now, not when the next guy picks up the ball on a fullscale development.
I hope they are listening or have apprehended the opportunity already.