Key Wyoming state leaders said late Thursday that for $100 million they are willing to sell a state-owned parcel inside Grand Teton National Park to the National Park Service. But the deal comes with a condition: The Bureau of Land Management must not include strict oil and gas and underground pipeline restrictions in a management plan for federal lands in southwest Wyoming. Otherwise, no sale. The five-member Wyoming State Board of Land Commissioners voted 3-2 to approve the sale of the “Kelly Parcel” nestled within the picturesque Gros Ventre River Valley on Grand Teton’s eastern border.
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