Red Rock Fire grows to 5700 acres. Temperature inversion keeps the smoke under a lid in Jackson Hole-
This fire, which was just resized from 5,729 acres, compared with 2,835 acres a day earlier, is burning in dead pine, aspen, fir and meadows near Goosewing R.S. and the controversial Wyoming Game and Fish Alkali elk [...]
Continue Reading →You can insure against a bear breaking into your rig and much more-
In addition to insurance against collision many other things can damage or destroy your vehicle. It has happened to me. Rock slides, falling trees, big hail stones, you name it! For those who travel to use the outdoors for hunting/wildlife viewing, photography, [...]
Continue Reading →Though USFWS has long estimated 5-10 grizzlies in area, there have been no photos-
Grizzly bear photographed in the North Cascades. Seattle Post Intelligencer
Continue Reading →The new “Black Creek Blowout” could be the biggest rapid on the river-
This is big news for all who float or boat the main fork of the Salmon River below the Corn Creek put-in. I’d like to know more about what caused this blowout on April 1.
Tracks of a male found in the rugged mountain wilderness-
Although it might just be passing through, this is a first for this mountain fastness.
Last summer, my spouse (Jackie) staffed a fire tower on the edge of the Eagle Cap Wilderness, which covers much of the mountain range.
The creation of the vast Eagle [...]
Continue Reading →Their origin is not known-
The Eagle Cap Wilderness in the Wallowa Mountains is large and rugged. It’s in extreme NE Oregon near Washington and Idaho. This herd of 25 bison is of unknown origin. What a happy discovery!
The Eagle Cap Wilderness, the nearby Wenaha-Tucannon [...]
Continue Reading →Just a generation ago . . . cleanest air the West set against the highest mountains in Wyoming-
It was wonderful to backpack, fish, and climb in the Wind River Mountains in the day when they did not overlook a miasma of gas field air pollution.
Wyoming folks love the Wyoming Range and fear fracking-
An unprecedented number of comments came in on the Plains Exploration & Production Co.’s (PXP) plan for up to 136 gas wells south of Bondurant near Noble Basin. Most of the Wyoming and adjacent Salt River Range has been withdrawn from oil and gas leasing/drilling by [...]
Continue Reading →They must be nearby. Ken Cole saw one cross Highway 12 about 40 miles SW just the other day-
Biologists hunt for fisher hair in Fish Creek. By Rob Chaney. Missoulian. “The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness appears to be such good fisher habitat that it may hold the last original Montana and Idaho species – [...]
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