Rockefellers donate Wyoming ranch

MOOSE, Wyo.
(May 26, 2001 08:08 p.m. EDT ) - With Vice President Dick Cheney calling it a "grand gesture," the Bush Administration on Saturday accepted the gift of an 1,106-acre Rockefeller family ranch that sits within the boundaries of Grand Teton National Park.

Philanthropist Laurance S. Rockefeller's JY ranch will become a part of the park in five years.

"My father was inspired by this uniquely magnificent landscape three quarters of a century ago and adding the 1,100 acres of the JY to the park completes his vision, which I share," Rockefeller said.

Cheney, wearing a cowboy hat and boots and accompanied by his family, and Interior Secretary Gale Norton represented the administration at the ceremony.

"If ever a man left his neighbors with a great gift, a grand gesture to be remembered forever, you have certainly done that today," the vice president said during a ceremony at the ranch, about 20 miles north of Jackson.

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