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  • Court Rules That Forest Service Illegally Authorized Helicopter Intrusions in Premiere Wilderness Area 

    Press Release

    Idaho Must Destroy Data Obtained From Illegal Elk and Wolf Collaring  POCATELLO, Idaho – A federal judge today ruled that the U.S. Forest Service illegally authorized the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) to conduct approximately 120 helicopter landings to place radio collars on elk in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness last…

  • Tasmanian poachers plead guilty and are kicked out of Idaho after paying fines

    Ralph Maughan

    Poachers killed a big bull elk and also illegally transferred wolf tags- Here is the outcome of the matter of the elk poaching Tasmanians in the Idaho wilderness. Many of the details came from an article by Australian reporter Paul Toohey for The Mercury. The 3 men, Darren Tubb, 43, Anton Kapeller, 58, and Samuel…

  • Of Wolves & Wilderness

    Brian Ertz

    Idaho Department of Fish & Game Moves to Collar Wolves in the Frank-Church Wilderness A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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