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* Teton Dam Collection – Oral History reports and newspaper articles, includes more than 50 oral history interviews of those living in the area when the disaster occurred.
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Teton and Dam
* 1976 – Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
* June 5 – The Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho in the U. S., killing 11 people.
Madison County was declared a national disaster area after the Teton Dam flood of June 5, 1976.
Newdale is located at ( 43. 886196 ,-111. 603699 ), one mile below the Teton Dam.
The city was flooded by the waters of the Teton Dam collapse on June 5, 1976.
* Teton Dam
The failure of the Teton Dam in 1976 increased the public's doubt about the wisdom of the project.
Even the 1976 failure of Teton Dam as it filled for the first time did not diminish Reclamation's strong international reputation in water development circles.
Even so, the failure of Teton Dam, the environmental movement, and the announcement of the President Carter's " hit list " on water projects profoundly affected the direction of Reclamation's programs and activities.
The Teton Dam was a federally-built earthen dam in Idaho in the United States, put up by the Bureau of Reclamation, one of eight federal agencies authorized to construct dams.
The Bureau of Reclamation proposed the Teton Dam in 1963, and Congress passed without opposition an authorizing bill the following year.
The dam safety program identified two other dangerous dams-Fontenelle, which very nearly failed like the Teton Dam when it was filled and again in May of 1985 and the Jackson Lake Dam which would have failed during an earthquake on the nearby Teton Fault.
The ruins of the Teton Dam in 2004
The force of the Teton Dam failure destroyed the lower part of the Teton River, washing away riparian zones and reducing the canyon walls.
Within a week after the disaster, President Gerald Ford requested a $ 200 million appropriation for initial payments for damages, without assigning responsibility for Teton Dam ’ s failure.
No plans have been made for rebuilding the Teton Dam, but its reconstruction has been brought up on at least one occasion.
* " The Bureau That Changed the West " One That Got Away: Teton Dam ( site critical of USBR )
* Teton Dam Flood Museum, Rexburg, Idaho
* Data from American Falls Dam ( downstream ) from the Teton Dam Failure
Teton and –
* 1929 – President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96, 000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
* 1804 – The Teton Sioux ( a subdivision of the Lakota ) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
* February 26 – The Grand Teton National Park is established by Congress.
* May 23 – Touch the Clouds, native American chieftain of Teton Lakota Sioux.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1804 – 1806 ) passed well north of the Grand Teton region.
Teton Village is part of the Jackson, WY – ID Micropolitan Statistical Area.
* Teton Range – Wyoming
Though party to one of the more famous expeditions in history, Colter is best remembered for explorations he made during the winter of 1807 – 1808, when Colter became the first known person of European descent to enter the region now known as Yellowstone National Park, and to see the Teton Mountain Range.
Year-round daily movements in Grand Teton National Park ranged from 0 to 2. 83 miles ( 0 – 4. 57 km ), averaging 0. 6 mile ( 0. 9 km, observations of 88 individuals ).
* Lakȟóta ( or Lakȟól ) – the Teton ( this reference has fallen into disuse.
Following retirement and utilizing an association with John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the Williamsburg Lodge project in Virginia, Underwood designed as his last major commission the Jackson Lake Lodge ( 1950 – 1954 ), Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
In 1987, a very rare high altitude tornado, called the Teton – Yellowstone tornado, destroyed an area of 20 miles ( 32 km ) long and 2 miles ( 3. 2 km ) wide.
Teton and Oral
Oral traditions relate that she brought the " Seven Sacred Rituals " to the Teton Sioux.
Teton and History
* The Teton Basin Project, Eric A. Stene, Bureau of Reclamation History Program, 1996
Teton and reports
His reports of the valley, the Teton Range and the Yellowstone region to the north were viewed by people of the day with skepticism.
Teton and includes
Approximately in size, the park includes the major peaks of the long Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole.
This region includes areas now occupied by the Teton Range, Gros Venture Range, Wind River Mountains and other mountain ranges to the south and east of the Tetons.
The pass provides access from the Jackson Hole valley to the Teton Valley of eastern Idaho, which includes the access route to Grand Targhee Resort through Driggs, Idaho.
Teton and more
At, Grand Teton abruptly rises more than above Jackson Hole, almost higher than Mount Owen, the second highest summit in the range.
Paleo-Indian presence in what is now Grand Teton National Park dates back more than 11, 000 years.
Jackson Hole valley climate at that time was colder and more alpine than the semi-arid climate found today, and the first humans were migratory hunter-gatherers spending summer months in Jackson Hole and wintering in the valleys west of the Teton Range.
Jackson Hole residents were opposed to an expansion of Yellowstone, but were more in favor of the establishment of a separate National Park which would include the Teton Range and six lakes at the base of the mountains.
By the mid 1930s, more than a dozen different climbing routes had been established on Grand Teton including the northeast ridge in 1931 by Glenn Exum.
Viewed from Jackson Hole valley looking west, the high peaks of the Teton Range rise more than 7, 000 feet ( 2, 135 m ) above the valley floor.
) She lived on the Mead Ranch, officially the ' Lower Bar BC ', which prior to its salefor more than $ 100 millionwas one of the largest pastoral private pieces in Teton County.
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