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 …
Tagged: conservation
Trail Dispatches: Trails for Conservation
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 …
A Christian conservative take on City Beach goose removal
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 …
Beware the collaboration trap
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, …
Wildlife habitat and forest management important to consider
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 …
New study sets precedent for region conservation
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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