For bears, forebears and the future
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
In plain terms, Hubbard Farms covers 1,040 acres in the Kootenai Valley, growing wheat, canola, barley and alfalfa on a productive patchwork between the Selkirk …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
In plain terms, Hubbard Farms covers 1,040 acres in the Kootenai Valley, growing wheat, canola, barley and alfalfa on a productive patchwork between the Selkirk …
By Regan Plumb
Reader Contributor
Trails may be most immediately associated with providing opportunities for fresh air and exercise, but there are more subtle factors at play just beneath the …
By Bea Speakman
Reader Contributor
If you are pleased with the recent capture and banding of the Canada geese and plan to kill any that return to City Beach, then …
By George Wuerthner
Reader Contributor
Many of the environmental/conservation groups in the West are participants in various collaboratives.
Groups participating in collaboratives include the Western Environmental Law Council, Northwest Conservation, …
By Stan Myers
Reader Contributor
It was greatly surprising that in his lengthy and thoughtful essay on wilderness and wildlife management in Idaho, Al Van Vooren made no reference to …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Idaho Fish and Game biologists Lacy Robinson and Michael Lucid are approaching the end of a five year odyssey, one that’s covered everything from …
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