JACKSON — Fireworks flew at the final meeting over future wilderness in Teton County, but irreconcilable differences ruled the day.

After two years of wrangling over how to best manage Teton County’s federal public lands, the final outcome was no deal.

The Teton County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to abandon any recommendation about designating wilderness in Teton County to the Wyoming County Commissioners Association. The decision came after a final meeting with the Wyoming Public Lands Initiative committee, which commissioners appointed in early 2016.

The divided 18-person committee — exemplified by an insurmountable impasse between motorized recreation and mountain biking representatives and everyone else — persisted until the bitter end.

“We already have 82 percent [of the land] that we cannot go into,” snowmobiling representative Mike Mielke told Abigail Moore, a general public representative, at the meeting. “This piece of pie that we have left, it’s like give, give, give. We can’t do it anymore.”

But Moore shot back.

“It’s an idealistic line in the sand for you,” she said, “even though we’ve bent over backwards to try to carve out all the uses up there. It’s not just one big wilderness.”

The heated back-and-forth was about proposed new wilderness in the Leidy Highlands, part of a failed recommendation that was supposed to represent compromise and consensus.

“What you’ve basically witnessed in the last 20 minutes,” Mielke told commissioners later, “that’s been the last couple years.”

In the end any new wilderness was a deal-breaker for dirt bikers, snowmobilers, mountain bikers and heli-skiers who coalesced as a group — the Advocates for Multi-Use of Public Lands — that sprang up two years ago in response to Teton County’s participation in the lands initiative.

Dozens of people showed up Tuesday with signs bearing “Vote no” and “Consensus means 100%” slogans alongside the Advocates for Multi-Use of Public Lands logo.

The commissioners’ vote of no recommendation was preceded by one final committee vote on a middle-ground lands plan that attempted to bridge gaps between the at-odds groups.

The committee’s vote on that plan ended up with five representatives in favor and 12 people against. General public representative Rob Shaul was ringleader of the attempted collaborative effort, and it was named after his Mountain Athlete gym, where committee members spent hundreds of hours bargaining over the past year.

The Wyoming Public Lands Initiative, an effort of the Wyoming County Commissioners Association, was geared toward generating locally driven, consensus-based recommendations to craft legislation that would end the long-running limbo of wilderness study areas. There are 45 such areas in Wyoming. Parts of two are in Teton County — the Palisades and Shoal Creek wilderness study areas — though the local committee sought to make large changes to Bridger-Teton National Forest lands outside of the wilderness study areas.

A week ago county commissioners OK’d broad policy recommendations that the committee at one point agreed to. These were no new roads, no oil and gas extraction, no mineral mining and no commercial timber harvest within county boundaries.

But on Tuesday division arose over the supposed consensus goals.

The dirt biking representative, Greg Buchko, told the commission he was not on board unless there were additional assurances for recreational access.

Committee member Steve Kilpatrick, who represented wildlife, made a push for adding specific language about protecting wildlife, contending many species are in dire straits and need all the space we can give them.

Commission Chairman Mark Newcomb said after the meeting that he does not know if the county will still forward the previous consensus recommendations to the Wyoming County Commissioners Association. There needs to be a discussion among the board members, he said.

Committee members and the public walked out of Tuesday’s meeting relieved that the process had run its course.

“It was an opportunity lost for all sides,” said Tom Turiano, a general public representative.

Advocates for Multi-Use of Public Lands co-founder Jesse Combs said he was tired of the fight after two years.

“I think it’s really strained our community,” he said. “It was a good intention from the beginning, but it just brought out a lot of contention and division — and we’re really not all that far apart.”

Bruce Hayse, a general public representative who steadfastly pushed more wilderness, said he knew gridlock was the inevitable future when he jumped into the Wyoming Public Lands initiative negotiations two years ago.

“There’s differences in values and differences in perspectives,” Hayse said.

“Basically, you have people who are concerned about their own recreation,” he said. “And you have people that have a bigger-picture view.”