Scouts build Wyoming trails

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: Jul 27, 2008 at 9:27 PM MDT

Story Updated: Jul 27, 2008 at 9:27 PM MDT

JACKSON, WYOMING - More than 1,000 Boy Scouts from around the country are in Jackson Hole for what some say is the largest public service project on U.S. Forest Service land in decades.

Over a week's time, Scouts from the Order of the Arrow will construct or refurbish roughly 10 miles of trails on Teton Pass, with an option for six more should time allow. A smaller group will work on wildlife improvement projects at two locations in the Gros Ventre area.

The work project is drawing elected officials and federal administrators. Boy Scout spokesman Reid Christopherson says Scouts haven't attempted a project of this size since World War II. The Jackson Hole effort took nearly three years of planning.

Christopherson said the Scouts participating are an elite group picked by Scouting groups across the country. Officials say the trail work that the Scouts hope to accomplish on Teton Pass has an estimated value of more than a $1 million.

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