Idaho

  • Idaho Fish and Game releases its Sept. 2011 Wolf Management Report

    Ralph Maughan

    The Report shows depredations down and even with wolf hunt mortality less than 2010- Of course the mortality figures will build to greater than 2010. September Wolf Report

  • Court Overturns BLM Range Management Plans

    Brian Ertz

    Western Watersheds Project wins initial court victory  Western Watersheds Project (WWP) has won a federal court order overturning the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Resource Management Plans (RMPs) for the Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in Idaho and the Pinedale Field Office in Wyoming.  These two plans affect management on over 2.5…

  • Second big cat killed in Valley this month

    Ken Cole

    Contrary to the headline of this story, the second mountain lion shot in the Treasure Valley was not shot in downtown Boise, it was shot in an area where there is significant interface with public lands and wildlife. Mores Creek flows into Lucky Peak Reservoir outside of city limits in an area where quite a…

  • Flat Top Ranch conservation easement . . . mostly success !

    Brian Ertz

    After receiving a groundswell of public comments prompted by Western Watersheds Project and local wolf advocates’ tireless effort the Blaine County Commission voted to require the Flat Top Ranch and The Nature Conservancy to provide a predator management plan emphasizing non-lethal protection of livestock prior to the Commission’s final approval of the ranch’s conservation easement…

  • Wolf-hunts morally corrupt

    George Wuerthner

    The resumption of wolf-hunts in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming illustrates why citizens must continue to oppose such unnecessary and senseless slaughters. The wolf-hunts are predicated upon morally corrupt and inaccurate assumptions about wolf behavior and impacts that are not supported by recent scientific research.  State wildlife agencies pander to the lowest common denominator in the…

  • Excluding Cattle from Trout Creek

    Brian Ertz

    Twin Falls Ranger District’s Trout Creek, habitat for the Yellowstone cutthroat trout, was among the locations found damaged by livestock grazing when Don Oman became the district ranger in 1986. In this video, Mr. Oman describes the dramatic environmental improvement that occurred after livestock were excluded from a short segment of the creek. Don Oman…

  • Idaho, Montana forest fires heating up

    Ralph Maughan

    At the end of the season, forest fires are finally breaking out in Idaho and Montana- It’s not like recent years when 500,000 to over a million acres burned, but some of these fires are now over 1000 acres. Range fires too continue to break out after every passing lightning storm. Saddle Complex fire spreads…

  • Idaho Parks & Recreation Publishes Online Trail & Road Database

    Brian Ertz

    The Idaho Department of Parks & Recreation has published a comprehensive database if trails and roads in the state displayed over a Google Map. View the Map  

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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