
The Teton Valley Power Timeline Reuses The Same Names
The Teton Valley timeline runs through county office, brokerage, planning records, party structure, Ron James' objection letter, and the Driggs 160 auction track.
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The Teton Valley timeline runs through county office, brokerage, planning records, party structure, Ron James' objection letter, and the Driggs 160 auction track.

As of April 7, 2026, Idaho's sale page still showed the Driggs 160 as an active auction listing with a $5 million reserve. The closing trail starts with the recorded deed.

The firm's own site lists Mark Bottles as principal and broker, Jacob Bottles as principal and agent, and says Mark Bottles has brokered more than $4 billion in real estate.

If you want to know who helped a Tull-adjacent land play move, start with the officials already on the paper: the Idaho Department of Lands, the State Board of Land Commissioners, and local actors like Ron James who declined to join the objection.

Official records and reporting describe land interest, political money, philanthropy, and local government decision-making colliding around one county commissioner and one billionaire ranch owner.

Victor Mayor Will Frohlich and Driggs Mayor August Christensen sit over a regional wastewater fight now measured in rate hikes, a federal consent decree, a lawsuit, and competing multimillion-dollar plant plans.

Official records and reporting describe a shared public utility relationship breaking down after federal enforcement, admitted compliance failures, and a lawsuit over how the money and oversight were handled.