- Guardsmen activated to help ease Northern Idaho snow emergency. Idaho Statesman.
- North Idaho awaits more snow. Six counties across state declare emergencies between storms. By Simon Shifrin. AP
- Avalanches close U.S. 12 across the north central Idaho mountains. By the Missoulian
- High avalanche danger for Boise National Forest. KTVB
- Wyoming battles high winds to clear I-80. Laramie Boomerang.
- Jackson Hole in January: Ten feet of snow and counting. USA Today.
- I-90 reopens; long delays possible. HeraldNet. I-90 was snowed close. I-99 crosses the Cascades in Washington and is the major travel route from Western to Eastern Washington and SE into Eastern Oregon.
- Oregon: Snow slides trap trucks, force closure of Santiam Pass. Register-Guard.
- Intense Snow Closes I-5 Freeway in Oregon and Northern California. Salem-News.com
- Two-hour Amtrak ride becomes 12-hour nightmare across Sierras. SFGate.com
- Oregon, Washington snow packs potential for flooding if rains come. Sunday, February 03, 2008. By Stuart Tomlinson. Oregonian.
- Utah snowpack: Levels exceed historical averages statewide. by Brandon Loomis. Salt Lake Tribune
- Avalanche blocks traffic on Interstate 90 at Lookout Pass. Missoulian. Lookout Pass is the Idaho/Montana border.
- Feb. 6. Workers blast section around I-90, but fail to force avalanche. By John Cramer. Missoulian
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He has been a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and also its President. For many years he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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Check this out “Humans banned on lands near Gunnison”
http://origin.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_8109392
They must be getting really nervous about Gunnison sage grouse listing.
Any chance they are going to try to blame the snow on wolves?
probably! and also that it is proof there is no global warming/climate change.
Great news. Snowpack has been way down in the northern Rockies. Hopefully you guys don’t get another warm spring that melts the stuff.
Hopefully we don’t get a shift in the jet stream any time soon. We’re (in Idaho) only about 70-75% of only a normal water year so far with only a couple more months to go.