Stewardship takes many forms for Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness

The Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness busy season is about to start. Seventy percent of the stewardship activities FSPW engages in falls between the middle of April and the end of September. The 2017 schedule is filling up, with ten days of trail work, a whitebark pine planting expedition on …
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Lawsuit demonstrates AFWR's arrogance

Just before Christmas, 2015, years of work and thousands of hours of individual effort by people from all walks of life in northwest Montana came to fruition when the Kootenai Forest stakeholders made a landmark agreement about land use on the Kootenai National Forest. The spectrum of participants was stunning: …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Not a fan of Alliance for Wild Rockies' 'last-minute lawsuit'

THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Don't know any better

THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Celebrating 50 years of the Wilderness Act

I’m somewhat of an outlander. I grew up on the Clark Fork, not the Kootenai, went to school at Heron and moved to Idaho for high school. But I’ve come back to “The Emerald Empire” many times since, the last time — 25 years ago — to stay.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO