Jacob Hobbs pled guilty to two counts — property damage and operating a motor vehicle off road. Hobbs was originally facing three other charges: destruction of plants, failure to report an incident and injury to a historic monument. Those three charges were ultimately dismissed.
His attorney claimed that the group had believed the area was Bureau of Land Management property, no official race was held, and the group stayed for only an hour.
Supervisory Park Ranger Alec Chapman, who is assigned to Teton Park, said in the court filing that “there are social media and blog postings showing that the event had been occurring in the park since at least 2013.”
Hobbs was fined $9,710.96, much of which will be necessary to cover the cost of restoring the sagebrush habitat.
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