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  • Mudslides from the 2007 Idaho wildfires begin after unusual June wet spell

    Ralph Maughan

    Article below is about a mudflow near Ketchum, orginating from the Castle Rock Fire area, but there a numerous slides around southern Idaho- June is often a fairly wet month in Idaho, which is mostly an arid or semi-arid state. The end of May and continuing into June has brought a lot of precipitation into…

  • Permanent Damage From Temporary Logging Roads

    Brian Ertz

    George Orwell is likely spinning in his grave when it comes to all the linguistic mischief that gets thrown around by politicians and land managers doing their best to cut down our forests, “manage”, “control”, and “harvest” the wild. Think “Healthy Forest” Initiative, removing that troublesome “fuel”, “wildlife friendly fences”, and “thinning and cleaning the…

  • Let us Praise—and Keep—the Dead

    Brian Ertz

    Dead trees are critical components of a healthy forest ecosystem George Wuerthner writes about the value of dead trees and how removing them can lead to impoverished forest ecosystems : Let us Praise—and Keep—the Dead – George Wuerthner, Forest Magazine

  • Bridger-Teton National Forest quickly moves to use stimulus money for anti-conservation logging

    Ralph Maughan

    Traditional logging dwindled on the Bridger-Teton, Caribou-Targhee and Shoshone National Forests because it brought in only pennies on the dollar spent. Stimulus may be used to renew logging at a loss- The stimulus bill has money for forests, parks, wildlife that can be used in a beneficial or negative way. It appears the supervisors for…

  • Massive Public Lands Bill a Bonanza for Sportsmen, but?

    Ralph Maughan

    Protection of Wyoming and Salt River Range, plus Commissary Ridge from drilling wins praise- Massive Public Lands Bill a Bonanza for Sportsmen. By Chris Hunt. New West. But there is more in the bill than protection of certain parcels of land- If you don’t think about the Owyhee Initiative part of the bill, it seems…

  • Bark Beetles Kill Millions of Acres of [Pine] Trees in West

    Ralph Maughan

    Beetle kill is hardly a local issue- This is not the first I’ve posted articles about this, but it needs to repeated because of the continuing local perception that is an issue for a particular national forest or state without the recognition that pine trees (but not necessarily other kinds of conifers) are dying by…

  • I've been in the central Idaho backcountry

    Ralph Maughan

    Since Friday, I’ve been mostly in the central Idaho backcountry. So there have been just a few posts. It’s incredible how much of central Idaho has burned since 2000 when I finished my last edition of Hiking Idaho. On the other hand, at the present autumn colors are just tremendous. Warm Springs Creek. Frank Church…

  • Wild Forests and Landscape Amnesia

    Ralph Maughan

    The Aug. 2008 The International Journal of Wilderness has a fine article by George Wuerthner. Most of the rural East has become reforested as agricultural has shifted and these relatively marginal lands for cultivation have grown back into forests. It may appear the old forest has now been considerably restored, but Wuerthner argues we hardly…

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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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