Idaho

  • Good riddance to the China Mountain/Browns Bench wind farm!

    Ralph Maughan

    Giant wind farm planned for the top of sage grouse-rich plateau is dead- A couple weeks ago we got word that the China Mountain wind farm project was in trouble when the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ordered two more years of study of it because the area was such important occupied sage grouse…

  • County vs Federal Flare-Up On Herd Creek, Central Idaho

    Brian Ertz

    Federal Judge Douses the Flames – For Now Custer County Commissioners have been rattling their sabres over a central Idaho road closure enforced by the Bureau of Land Management.  The closure occurred 12 years ago after a landslide and prevents off-road-vehicles (ORVs) from access to the Jerry Peak Wilderness Study Area. Despite being given the…

  • Suit Filed to Protect Bighorn Sheep in Hells Canyon and Salmon River Canyon

    Brian Ertz

    Yesterday, Western Watersheds Project, Hells Canyon Preservation Council, and The Wilderness Society filed a motion in federal district court seeking to halt domestic sheep grazing on three allotments in the Payette National Forest in order to protect imperiled bighorn sheep in Hells Canyon, and native bighorns in the Salmon River Canyon. In 2010, the Forest…

  • Idaho’s leading newspaper says “One trapper’s barbarism reflects badly on Idaho”

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolf trapper Josh Bransford hurt Idaho’s image according to The Idaho Statesman- In Sunday’s newspaper there is a strong condemnation, e.g., “His behavior isn’t sporting. It’s sickening. Idahoans will forever disagree about the wolf and its place in the state’s natural order, but all Idahoans should at least be able to speak with one voice…

  • A second Lynx documented in Idaho this winter.

    Ken Cole

    It has been a very long time since a lynx has been documented in Idaho but this year there have been two of them. Recently there was one captured in a leg hold trap near Salmon, Idaho. The most recent sighting was in northern Idaho. This despite the USFWS saying that there aren’t any here.…

  • Your Turn to Give the Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commission a Piece of You Mind

    Ken Cole

    The Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commission will be taking public comment on all kinds of things on March 21, 2012 at their headquarters in Boise, Idaho. The public comment section starts their three day meeting where they will set rules for hunting and fishing in the upcoming year. One of the items on…

  • Collaboration, Idaho Style

    Ken Cole

    Extractive Industry Determines the Fate of Sage Grouse in Idaho. On Monday, March 12, 2011, the Idaho Governor Butch Otter’s Sage Grouse Task Force had its first formal meeting. Originally the meeting was to be organized by the Idaho Governor’s Office of Species Conservation (OSC) but something happened and rather than have OSC organize the…

  • China Mountain/Browns Bench Wind Hits 2-Year Stall

    Brian Ertz

    A Wind developer in southern Idaho has hit a two-year road-block that casts significant doubt on whether the wind project sited in pristine sage grouse habitat along the border of Nevada will ever be developed at all. BLM defers China Mountain decision for two years – Elko Daily Free Press “stupid bird.” We’ve covered the…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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