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Wilderness/Roadless

  • Debris flow creates a big rapid on the Salmon River (central Idaho)

    Ralph Maughan

    The new “Black Creek Blowout” could be the biggest rapid on the river- This is big news for all who float or boat the main fork of the Salmon River below the Corn Creek put-in. I’d like to know more about what caused this blowout on April 1. White water created on Salmon River by…

  • Budget deal stops BLM Wild Lands inventory

    Brian Ertz

    So much for Harry Reid’s promise that the budget bill wouldn’t be used to carry anti-environment riders Around Christmas, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the administration would be pursuing a BLM Wild Lands initiative, vague direction to BLM to inventory lands which exhibit wilderness characteristics for future Congressional Wilderness designation consideration. It was a…

  • Herd of wild bison living in Oregon’s Eagle Cap Wilderness

    Ralph Maughan

    Their origin is not known- The Eagle Cap Wilderness in the Wallowa Mountains is large and rugged. It’s in extreme NE Oregon near Washington and Idaho. This herd of 25 bison is of unknown origin. What a happy discovery! The Eagle Cap Wilderness,  the nearby Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness and areas in Oregon’s Blue Mountains are also…

  • Idaho Gov. Butch Otter’s wilderness math doesn’t add up

    Ralph Maughan

    Idaho’s fact free governor testifies about Idaho Wilderness- Clement “Butch” Otter has always made his way catering to most backward power groups in his unequal, economically poor, but wilderness rich state.  The poorly paid teachers, educationally deprived students, overflowing prisons, and dispirited population are fine by him, but he has never liked wild backcountry, and…

  • Judge upholds ban on motorized travel in Badger-Two Medicine roadless area

    Ralph Maughan

    Motorbikes, ATV interests rebuffed for large roadless area between Glacier N.P. and Bob Marshall Wildlerness- Judge upholds ban on motorized travel in Badger-Two Med. By Karl Puckett.  Great Falls  Tribune Staff Writer. I’ve only been there twice, and just into it a little way.  My impression is that it isn’t quite as rugged as the…

  • Simpson takes another shot at CIEDRA

    Ken Cole

    The Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act is reintroduced into Congress Simpson takes another shot at CIEDRA By KATHERINE WUTZ – Idaho Mountain Express

  • Kevin Richert: This year’s fight with the feds: Otter vs. BLM | Kevin Richert's columns | Idaho Statesman

    Ken Cole

    When I heard about the Interior Department’s decision to reverse the changes that the Bush Administration made to the policy on wild lands protection I was pleased. However, I remain skeptical at how the policy will be implemented by the current bunch running BLM who I don’t really trust. There is no doubt, however, how…

  • US Court of Appeals: US wrongly put water tanks in Kofa National Wildlife Refuge

    Ralph Maughan

    Water tanks illegally constructed in Wilderness- Back to the issue of construction of wildlife facilities in designated Wilderness areas, although there are many more issues here than the one before the court.  One must not lose sight of that. US Court of Appeals: US wrongly put water tanks in Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. Tony Davis.…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

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