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The Teton Valley Power Timeline Reuses The Same Names

Teton County's FY2020 financial statements list Harley Wilcox as District 2 commissioner. County planning records later place him in code-change and scenic-corridor matters. Official 2024 county records repeatedly name Anthony Wilcox. The Teton County Idaho GOP page lists Heather Wilcox as Precinct 7 leader and Ed Yeager as county chair.

Published
April 8, 2026

Records Research Desk

Updated
April 14, 2026

Standards Review

Investigation
Corruption Watch

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Teton CountyWest Group Real EstateHarley WilcoxEd YeagerDriggs 160
Visual Network

Teton Valley Influence Map

The rows connect the state sale route, the county process, and the recurring party-real-estate names in the same public sequence.

Source Trail

Open any row for the underlying story or source record. The right-hand notes list the documented relationship instead of trying to turn every connection into a visual gimmick.

Public ProcessLand FileBroker / MarketParty Lane
Documented Process

State Sale Pipeline

This is the straight-line route in the record: agency intake, board approval, parcel listing, and the broker handoff around Driggs 160.

Pressure On The Sale

These are not the straight state route. They are the outside records that keep pulling attention back toward the same parcel.

Ron James
declined county objection
Driggs 160
Ron James
deferred to state
Idaho Land Board
County Record

County Process Layer

Objections, planning appearances, and 2024 meeting records keep touching the same public record.

Recurring County-Facing Appearances

These are the recurring county-facing appearances that keep turning the same names back up in the record.

Power Cluster

Party + Real Estate Layer

This is the name-reuse part of the map: local party structure on one side, recurring Wilcox and brokerage ties on the other.

Real Estate And Recurring Names

These names reappear across planning records, public comment, and brokerage work.

Cross-Links In This Layer

These documented links are why the same cluster keeps surfacing across party structure, county meetings, and local real-estate work.

What this shows

The same names recur across office, party structure, planning fights, brokerage work, and a live state land sale.

Limit Of The Record

The timeline ties recurring names and public records together; it does not allege one coordinated criminal act by every person shown.

Best next record

The deed and LLC filings after the Driggs 160 sale will sharpen which private actor actually ends up on title.

CorruptionRecords Research DeskStandards Review8 min read

2020: Harley Wilcox is on the public side of the table

Teton County's FY2020 financial statements list Harley Wilcox as District 2 commissioner.

The public-office record is the first dated anchor in the timeline before the later private-side planning and brokerage records.

2021 to 2023: Harley Wilcox reappears on the private land-use side, and West Group is based in Victor

By 2021, county planning records show Harley Wilcox as the applicant for an M-1 code amendment. By 2023, the planning record shows him seeking scenic-corridor review for five lots in Alpine Acres Subdivision. In the same broader period, Harley's brokerage page presents him as a developer, investor, and builder at West Group Real Estate.

West Group's own site says the company is based in Victor, Idaho and markets Victor, Driggs, Tetonia, Jackson and beyond.

2024: Anthony Wilcox and Harley Wilcox keep showing up in county rooms

Official 2024 county records place Anthony Wilcox in repeated comment appearances on ethics, committee video standards, Zoom and GIS policy, subdivision issues, and map-layer requests. The May 14, 2024 planning record also places both Anthony Wilcox and Harley Wilcox in opposition during the same hearing.

The 2024 county records place the Wilcox name repeatedly in county process while Harley is already established on the private real estate side.

The party lane is running in parallel, not separately

The public Teton County Idaho GOP page lists Ed Yeager as county chair and Heather Wilcox as Precinct 7 leader. The same page says the organization advocates for families, property owners, farmers, entrepreneurs, and natural resources.

The county party's own language names property owners, farmers, entrepreneurs, western heritage, and natural resources as public priorities.

2025 to 2026: the state pushes Driggs 160 forward anyway

The Idaho Department of Lands' July 15, 2025 recap says the Land Board approved the Driggs 160 for public auction. The later reconsideration packet shows Ron James declining to join the county objection letter. Idaho's current sale page now lists the parcel as an active auction with a $5 million reserve and routes buyers through Bottles Real Estate Auctions.

The state land-sale record closes this timeline with a live public-land auction connected to named officials, letters, and a private auction broker.

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