The Great Outdoors

  • Victory for Western Watersheds Project on cutthoat trout

    Ralph Maughan

    Western Watersheds Project wins appeal in Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest overturning a grazing decision for the Franklin Basin Allotment in northern Utah- Over the years the popular Franklin Basin area of the Cache National Forest in Bear River Range just south of the Idaho border has been increasingly pummeled by cattle and sheep. One result has…

  • Idaho Senators try to pressure Tester to remove an area from his "wilderness bill"

    Ralph Maughan

    Idaho snowmobile interests “own” the Idaho side of the Centennial Mountains, yet still want Mt. Jefferson on the Montana side removed from bill- Conflicting Interests. Written by Mark Menlove. Backcountry Magazine. I see that conservation groups who support Senator Tester’s  “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act (FJRA)” (a.k.a. “wilderness bill”) are waging a campaign to keep…

  • Bighorn reintroduced to central Wyoming's Seminoe Mountains

    Ralph Maughan

    Reintroduction a generation ago slowly failed- I haven’t been to these low, but rugged, little known mountains. The bighorn are coming from Oregon rather than the more alpine stock in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. More sheep, more hunting? By Jeff Gearino. Casper Star-Tribune.

  • Another grizzly shot in Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    Hunter shoots a rare Cabinet Mountains grizzly bear- Man shoots Cabinet Mountains grizzly. Montana FWP says it was self-defense. AP

  • Judge slashes Southern Nevada Water Authority

    Ralph Maughan

    SNWA loses right to suck 6- billlion gallons of water a year from under Nevada desert valleys- This is a blockbuster decision for the high desert of Nevada and western Utah and against the same old pattern of urban sprawl for Las Vegas. The state supreme court could yet rule for SNWA. It’s a big…

  • Photos of Wyoming Range

    Ralph Maughan

    Protection of the Wyoming Range was one of the big achievements of 2009- B. Henrie, who posts here under another name, provided the blog with some fine photos of these splendid mountains. He took them on a Sept. deer hunt. No doubt they are now covered with snow. A million acres was withdrawn from oil…

  • Cow flop? No, an unusual fungus

    Ralph Maughan

    Out walking in cow country in the mountains above Pocatello, ID the other day, I came across this large fungus. Does anyone know what it is?

  • Female Grizzly Relocated to Cabinet Mtns of NW Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    The relocation is another in a series of transplants to bolster the weak grizzly population of the Cabinet-Yaak- Bear managers have been releasing about one new grizzly each year into the Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bear recovery area of extreme NW Montana. This smallish recovery area has no connection to NW Montana’s Northern Continental Divide grizzly area…

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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.”

Raveena Tandon

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