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Trail Creek Restoration Project Tour
In Teton Valley, there’s a complex system of canals and irrigation structures that we depend on for drinking water and agriculture. This complex network of canals can prevent fish from migrating to spawning locations and lead to entrapment in canals as water levels change. We work to improve instream habitat and functionality by making structural improvements to the stream, such as installing fish ladders, step-pools, and screens.
Join us to take a tour of a restoration project that improves irrigation infrastructure for better water delivery to agricultural producers and improves fish passage on a key Teton River tributary. Group size is limited to 10. Please email [email protected] by 5pm on Monday, August 11th to reserve your spot.
Participants will be required to practice social distancing the entire outing and activities will be structured to allow participants to do so. Although participants will not be closer than 6 feet at any point during the walk, masks are certainly welcome. If you or anyone in your family feels ill or if you have had known contact with someone with COVID-19 symptoms, please do not attend and contact us to cancel your sign-up.
Betsy first visited Teton Valley as a 10-year-old from Atlanta, GA, on a family trip west (station wagon and pop-up camper in tow), and knew from that point that the Tetons were amazing and the Rockies were where she wanted to be when she grew up. With a B.A. in Biology and an M.A. in Geography, she enjoyed a career in natural resource management with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Forest Service, the last 20 years in Utah and Montana. In 2022, she and her husband Dan started building their home in Tetonia, moving here in 2023, and are enjoying the outdoor joys of the Tetons and getting to know Teton Valley. She enjoys all things outdoors, particularly hiking, mountain biking, skiing, and trying to dabble in bikepacking; loves traveling although finds leaving their senior tabby to be so hard.
Rafe owns and operates Canewater Farm in Victor, Idaho. Rafe studied business at The University of Georgia and organic agriculture at the University of California Santa Cruz. Rafe brings the unique perspective of the local agricultural community to Friends of the Teton River. He is a farmer and a fisherman who views the Teton River as the lifeblood of the community. He advocates for collaboration between agricultural and recreational stakeholders. He is a proud father of two children, Rowan and Emmalou. He and his family sneak away from the farm any chance they can to camp, fish, ski, bike and explore the beautiful mountains and rivers of the area.