Grand Teton National Park Foundation

Grand Teton National Park Foundation provides private financial support for special projects that enhance and protect Grand Teton National Park's treasured resources. Since 1997, the organization has raised more than $20 million for education-based capital projects, work-and-learn programs that reconnect youth to nature, and wildlife research and protection. By funding initiatives that go beyond what the National Park Service could accomplish on its own, Foundation friends solve park challenges and create a solid future for Grand Teton.

Grand Teton National Park’s new high-definition auditorium is open! The 150-seat addition completes the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center, one of the most successful public-private projects in the national park system. In addition, Foundation donors make the following possible:

• Youth Conservation Program teens have completed more than 32,000 hours of restoration work on trails and historic sites. They also learn about wilderness, gain skills, and develop a personal conservation ethic. The second year of Children in Nature, a recreation, interpretation, and service program that helps Latino students and their families connect to Grand Teton, is underway.
• Biologists receive equipment to study the wildlife that shares our valley, and bear-resistant food storage boxes are saving the lives of foraging bears. Whitebark pine restoration, a keystone species in Grand Teton ravaged by mountain pine beetles, and an air quality monitoring station that will measure ozone levels will further resource protection efforts.
• Technology-based interpretive materials and a user-friendly website with podcasts and videos are on the horizon to attract a more tech-savvy and diverse audience.

Stay up-to-date on Grand Teton news and learn how individuals, foundations, and corporations are positively impacting one of America’s most iconic national parks at www.gtnpf.org.