Wildflowers

  • Low larkspur (Delphinium bicolor)

    Brian Ertz

    Larkspur Strikes Again !!! Kinda’ puts the whole “Canadian wolves are a threat to our ‘livelihood’” argument into perspective: 30 cows die in S. Idaho after eating larkspur – Idaho Statesman via Associated Press Perhaps they will spend millions of tax-payer’s dollars to commission a federal agency to crop-dust our public lands with herbicide such…

  • Yellowbells (Fritillaria pudica)

    Brian Ertz

    Fritillaria pudica are among the first flowers to bloom in sagebrush country following the receding snow. Indigenous peoples used to eat their starchy bulbs. They’re blooming now ~ this photo was taken yesterday north of Fish Creek Reservoir.  With the moisture remaining following the fresh recession of snow – sagebrush country all over the West…

  • Uppermost West Fork of the Pahsimeroi

    Brian Ertz

    It’s hot where I’m at.  It’s good to think about where it’s not so much the case: Snow melts in August in the uppermost West Fork of the Pahsimeroi. Wildflowers follow…

  • Photo of cattle on the Murphy burn

    Ralph Maughan

    The land needs to rest from cattle grazing for several seasons after a range fire, but here they are on the tablelands above Jackpot, Nevada, grazing part of the Murphy burn. The sagebrush area is unburned, the rest is obviously burned. Grazing a burn weakens the newly sprouted perennial grasses — the good grasses —…

  • Big-head clover (Trifolium macrocephalum)

    Brian Ertz

    It’s the season.  Bighead clover in Atremisia rigida sites. Photograph © Katie Fite 2008

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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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