Halstead Fire continues 25 year pattern of burning in or near the southern boundary of the Frank-
Although Idaho had some large range fires in June, they did not get much attention because they mostly burned rangeland that was already severely degraded with cheatgrass, BLM-planted crested wheatgrass and related cultivars, and overgrazed. This is, of […]
Continue Reading →Isaac Babcock, and his new wife Bjornen, made a decision to spend the first year of their married life on an unusual honeymoon. They decided to spend the year living and filming a documentary in Idaho’s Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness which focuses mostly on wolves but also on the other amazing wildlife […]
Continue Reading →Goal was 12 wolves-
After the lawsuit and all the expense and danger of darting wolves from the air to collar them in the rugged Frank Church Wilderness, the results are in. After risk to life and limb, instead of 12 wolves the department got only 4 collared. This is apparently the same number of […]
Continue Reading →“Wilderness Wolf Watchers” Coalition seeks an Injunction/Temporary Restraining Order preventing the landing of helicopters
Chief District Judge B. Lynn Winmill is set to hear oral arguments on the Frank Church Wilderness/Helicopter Landing litigation this afternoon. The “Wilderness Wolf Watchers” Coalition seeks an Injunction/Temporary Restraining Order preventing the landing of helicopters in the Frank Church […]
Continue Reading →Rocky Barker’s update on the lawsuit filed by Wolf Recovery Foundation and WWP-
I want to reiterate that the part of the lawsuit applying to the Frank Church Wilderness and the chasing, darting, and landing there to radio collar wolves, is not primarily a wolf issue. It is a Wilderness integrity issue. I would be […]
Continue Reading →~ by Jon Marvel
Friends,
On December 31, 2009 Western Watersheds Project and the Wolf Recovery Foundation welcomed the New Year by filing litigation in federal court challenging the federal government’s mismanagement of public lands and wolves in Central Idaho.
Read the Associated Press article :
Continue Reading →Idaho Fish and Game Proposal defeats the purpose of Wilderness-
What could more opposite, animals and people roaming freely in the great outdoors; or struggling through rough country under the never sleeping watch of souless technology, subject to summary execution from the air on the order of distant bureaucrats?
That’s what is a stake in […]
Continue Reading →Well they finally issued it. People I talk with are really stirred up about this. It is not a wolf thing. It is the integrity of Wilderness. The Forest Service needs to have their hat handed to them on this one. We need to kick their sorry ass. RM
Decision Memo. Special Use Authorization […]
Continue Reading →Forest Service will cave to Idaho Fish and Game’s plan to grossly abuse the concept of Wilderness-
Even though 90% of the comments received were opposed to Idaho Fish Game’s plan to violate the Wilderness Act because they want a better count of the number of wolves in the Frank Church Wilderness, this week the […]
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