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Warnings Signed "Open Space Alliance" Turn Up at Four Subdivisions Near Victor

Warnings signed "Open Space Alliance" turned up on a building, a foundation and an excavator near Victor, then on the roads into three more subdivisions.

By Wade Williams ·
The words "Stop or All Will Be Targeted" written in orange on the white door of a small building under construction, with an X below.

VICTOR — Someone wrote "Stop or All Will Be Targeted" on the door of a small building going up in the Canyon Wren subdivision in late September and signed the siding beside it Open Space Alliance. The letters O, S and A run across the top, and under each one the rest of the word runs down the wall.

By Oct. 6, warnings had turned up at three more subdivisions near Victor, painted on the road at each entrance. Two began "Next if." The third, at Lucy Meadows, carried the same "OSA" signature as Canyon Wren.

Part of the word "Warned" and the letters "OSA" spray-painted in red on a paved road in front of the Lucy Meadows subdivision sign.
Red spray paint at the Lucy Meadows entrance on Garcia Street, Oct. 14.

Canyon Wren is eight lots of 2.5 acres each in unincorporated Teton County, platted in 2022 on what had been farmland. Photos taken Sept. 28 show "STOP" written down a poured foundation wall, with X marks on either side. The small building, on another lot where construction is underway, has "LAST Warning" and "OSA" on one wall and "FARM Field," underlined, beside a window. A Case excavator on the site reads "U Have Been Warned" on its side panel, "Stop" on the cab glass and, on its counterweight, "DONT Push us," the first word traced over the white Case logo.

Whoever left the messages brought three materials. The building and the foundation were marked in chalk, and the excavator in shaving cream. Both wash off. The only spray paint went on the paved roads.

At Basin Meadows, across the street from Canyon Wren, red paint on the pavement at the entrance reads "Next if." It was there Sept. 28 and was still there Oct. 14, near a sign marking the gravel entrance road as private.

Farther down the road toward Lucy Meadows, "Next if contines," misspelled, was painted at the entrance to Moose Hollow Estates. By Oct. 14 someone had covered it over.

"Next if contines" spray-painted in red on the asphalt apron of a gravel road, with the Moose Hollow Estates sign at right.
"Next if contines" at the Moose Hollow Estates entrance, Sept. 28. It has since been covered over.

Lucy Meadows, platted in 2023, was the last of the four to be found. A real estate agent came across the markings Oct. 6, on fresh asphalt at the Garcia Street entrance: "Warned" and "OSA," and under the stop sign, "Next if it goes on." Beside them someone painted "#3" and a circled smiley face. When its entrance was painted is unknown.

"Next if it goes on" spray-painted in red on the road at the Lucy Meadows entrance, below a stop sign and the subdivision sign.
"Next if it goes on" at the Lucy Meadows entrance, Oct. 14.

The messages left on private property went on the work itself: a foundation, a building going up, the machine digging the lots. The road warnings promised more if the work went on.

No group called the Open Space Alliance is registered with the Idaho Secretary of State in eastern Idaho, and a search of the web and social media turned up none in Teton Valley. Unrelated groups elsewhere use the name.

The Teton County Sheriff's Office logged three damaged-property calls from the Victor area, the first at 11:45 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 27, and two more the next morning from other properties. It took a report, and the case is under investigation. The office said it found no calls in the past week about Lucy Meadows.

Information can be reported to the Sheriff's Office non-emergency line, (208) 776-8200.

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