The unwillingness to give up even a sliver of terrain to help a nearly extinct herd of wild animals reeks of the access-greed that puts the “wreck” in wreckreation. That is, until a handful of vocal skiers lashed back, launching a campaign to convince federal land managers to preserve all access, bighorns be damned. It seemed as if the skiers came out on top in the deal, and a majority of the backcountry skiing community accepted the compromise without complaint. The sheep would get about half of the high-quality winter Teton range skiers would lose access only to about 5% of what they had identified as prime skiing terrain. The proposal was a compromise, balancing the survival needs of the bighorn with the “stoke” desires of backcountry skiers. The coalition recommended closing just over 20,000 acres of high-country public land during the winter.
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