All last summer Montana’s air was filthy from forest fires in Idaho. This year has been much better, but enough fires have now been started by lightning in central Idaho […]
Sockeye numbers reach highest level in decades in Idaho's Sawtooth country
This is very good news!! They were almost extinct 15 years ago. Sockeye numbers reach highest level in decades. A total of 386 sockeye salmon had arrived in the Sawtooth […]
20 years after Yellowstone fires: Black Saturday's lessons still debated
Rocky Barker has written extensively about the Yellowstone fires and fire policy in general with a book (Scorched Earth) on the role of forest fires fighting and the history of […]
How wildlife fared in the Yellowstone fires of 1988
There have been a number of retrospectives on the great fires of ’88 on their 20th anniversary. Here is one from the Salt Lake Tribune summarizing the effect on wildlife. […]