On 640 undeveloped acres adjacent to Grand Teton National Park, state land known as the “Kelly Parcel” saw its future transform in the past 13 months. It was back in October 2023 when state land managers put the wheels in motion for an open auction. That after years of failed attempts through legislation to arrange a sale. The issue was tabled until fall 2024. In July, Wyoming Public Radio's Chris Clements saddled up to see what was at stake.

2024 was the first year when only Wyoming residents could participate in the first few days of a long-running Western tradition: hunting for the elk antlers that have piled up over winter. Before the sun rose on May 1, KHOL’s Dante Filpula Ankney was on the scene with hunters to search for what had changed with the new law.

In March, hunter Cody Roberts ran over a gray wolf with his snowmobile and brought the animal into a bar in Daniel - about an hour south of Jackson. He was fined $250 by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department for “possession of a live animal.” In April, KHOL reporter Dante Filpula Ankney sat down with KHOL’s Emily Cohen, who first reported the story, and Wyofile reporter Mike Koshmrl to talk about the role of wolves in Wyoming.

Abortion access for all of Wyoming was protected by a Teton County judge this year. In November, Wyoming Public Radio’s Hannah Merzbach called people on all sides of the issue and captured the emotion of the moment and explore how a reaction against Obamacare backfired.

Last winter, Ryan Stolp published a cartoon in the Jackson Hole Daily and on social media for Lift Lines, his long-running Jackson-based comic on the absurdities and wonder of ski towns. Stolp is used to controversy, but reactions to this post were different.

In April, KHOL reporter Dante Filpula Ankney interviewed Stolp and others about how a drawing of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort accidentally exposed the rage that accumulates in a place with such stark wealth inequality.

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