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Living in Boise, Idaho – an arid city where we get less than 10 inches of rain a year – we wanted a yard that reduced our water use (most yards here require irrigation) and that also provided habitat for native critters. Plants Idaho native plants plants xeriscaping Chocolate flowers. Photo: Matt Miller/TNC. By Matt Miller, senior science writer. As I stepped out my front door this morning, I was greeted by a familiar summer aroma: a tray of brownies cooking in the oven. MORE
The Conservancy’s conservation manager for the Silver Creek area in Idaho is a Jill-of-all-trades and a master of opposites, blending a love for art and science, of things big and small, of being active and sitting still. Dayna Gross, Silver Creek conservation manager. Interview by Darci Palmquist, senior science writer. MORE
Over the course of seven weeks, it moved to eastern Idaho, into the northern part of Yellowstone National Park, back to the Tetons and then on to Montana (where, unfortunately, it was trapped and killed). In the contiguous United States, Glacier National Park in Montana and the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho are probably your best bets – but you’re looking at lottery odds. And I could get lucky like my friend Jeff Barney, who saw one on a backpacking trip in Idaho’s Pioneer Mountains. MORE
Dugout Dick was the last of Idaho's river-canyon loners that date back to Territorial days. They were drawn by Idaho's remoteness and wild places removed from social pressures. Richard Zimmerman, known to all as Dugout Dick, dies in his cave age 94 – R.I.P. by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Known to some as the "Salmon River Caveman," but to most as “Dugout Dick”, Richard Zimmerman lived a lifestyle that was essentially a 19th century one. MORE
Trans-Border region — between southern British Columbia, northern Idaho, Montana and northeastern Washington. Northern Idaho is a remarkable place where wild animals such as grizzly bear, lynx, and wolverine still roam. These species travel incredible distances crossing valleys, entire mountain ranges, and political boundaries,” said Robyn Miller, director of conservation programs for the Conservancy in Idaho. Collared grizzly bear number 106 became a local legend of sorts. MORE
A two and a half hour drive to Salmon, Idaho is turning into four. Wildlife are getting as sick of walking around in four feet of snow as I am,” says Daryl Meints, Idaho Department of Fish and Game regional wildlife manager. Idaho Department of Fish and Game doesn’t make a habit of feeding wildlife in winter, but this year, it’s on. A moose recently fell into a window well in Hailey, Idaho. The highway looks more like a track for the luge than a road for my truck. MORE
When a family sought reprieve from the rigors of urban living, they asked Salt Lake City-based architecture firm Imbue Design to design a retreat for them in the “middle of nowhere” in southern Idaho. Self-sustaining retreat in Idaho is the perfect social distancing getaway. MORE
and hunting in a "designated elk state" (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon or Wyoming), then the contingent valuation method can be used without much slippage. [link]. Aren't you supposed to be quiet when you are hunting? If so, why are they yelling? And the third panel is ominous. Mark thinks that there is a wierd relationship between Johnny Walker and the Senator, he is pairing them up and then telling them to take careful aim. MORE
That scene has been repeated too many times near my Idaho home this winter. In January, the shrub caused the death of a herd of 50 pronghorn near Payette, Idaho, garnering significant media attention. Many areas of Idaho have received a lot of snowfall this year. The Idaho Statesman reported an instance where an Idaho Department of Fish and Game officer was educating a homeowner about the dangers of the shrub. MORE
Watching my boys grow up on The Nature Conservancy’s Silver Creek Preserve in south-central Idaho –where I work as manager– I am amazed on a daily basis how much they notice. . A young scientist captures insects at Silver Creek Preserve. Credit: Sara Sheehy/TNC. By Dayna Gross, Silver Creek preserve manager. It was a normal Sunday for us. Mid-morning, we walked down to the creek to throw some rocks in the water and look for critters. MORE
For the past seven years, I’ve been writing conservation agreements for salmon in the Lemhi River, working from my faraway desk here in Boise, Idaho’s capital city. Seeing wild Chinook salmon in Idaho is like that. I read the data, so I believe there are salmon in Idaho, and I work on their conservation as an act of hope. For more on the story of the Conservancy and salmon in Idaho, check out this video of our work at Lee Creek. MORE
It’s one of three pelican nesting colonies in Idaho. The several hundred pelicans nesting on Gull Island don’t stay on the island so Idaho Department of Fish and Game bands them to find out where they go. The birds come to Idaho to nest. Pelicans are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act so Idaho Department of Fish and Game needs a federal permit to take action. I’m bent at the waist in gag stance for all the crew to see. MORE
In this video, researchers are tracking wolves in a remote Idaho forest. You can see here the different intensities of a fire in the Hells Canyon region of Idaho. Hummingbird as seen in infrared. Image courtesy of This video wasn’t taken for research, but illustrates the hummingbird’s variation in body temperature – from its super-heated body to its fluttering wings. Video courtesy of Nature Conservancy partner John Romero of Owyhee Air Research. MORE
However, Vilsack does not have authority over the state of Idaho. Idaho and Colorado were the two states which decided to develop their own forest road rules. The approximately 9 million acres of national forests in Idaho will remain under the control Idaho’s state government. The Obama administration recently announced a moratorium on road-building in national forests. MORE
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By Ryan Haugo, Washington-Idaho Forest Ecologist. In Idaho, the Mustang Complex alone burned 300,000 acres. Last September an intense late summer lightning storm rolled across the Pacific Northwest, starting fires in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. That month I had a series of meetings across eastern Washington and northern Idaho. Table Mountain Fire, eastern Cascades, Washington, September 2012. The 2012 Pacific Northwest wildfire season was one for the record books. MORE
The Nature Conservancy’s Flat Ranch is a nature preserve and working cattle ranch located 15 miles west of West Yellowstone, in Macks Inn, Idaho, just off Highway 20. A large bull elk peers from the forest at Yellowstone National Park. Photo: Matt Miller/TNC. By Matt Miller, senior science writer. The Traveling Naturalist, our series featuring natural wonders and biological curiosities for the science-inclined wanderer. MORE
An organization called Idaho for Wildlife hosted a hunting derby between Jan. The Idaho event came on the heels of a wolf killing in Utah during Dec., The Humane Society''s Idaho director Lisa Kauffman called the event, which occurred in Salmon, Idaho, a " wolf massacre." The event also gave hunters ample opportunity to kill wolves anyway, as is legal in Idaho - the wolf kills simply would not be worth any "prizes." MORE
Fish and Wildlife Service biologists Greg Burak and Dave Hopper have invited me on their monitoring surveys for this snail species, found only in the Thousand Springs region of southern Idaho. The Snake River – the large tributary of the Columbia – winds its way through this part of Idaho. As Idaho was settled, both the federal government and farmers worked to “make the desert bloom.” Idaho’s Galapagos. MORE
Conservation Planning Freshwater Science conservation visualization Dayna Gross Dayna Gross Silver Creek Idaho conservation Kilpatrick Pond restoration nature ar Nature Conservancy Silver Creek science art scientific art scientific illustration Silver Creek Preserve stream restoration Silver Creek Preserve manager Dayna Gross used her love of painting to help convey complex stream restoration plans. by Dayna Gross, Silver Creek Preserve manager. MORE
Almost forty years ago, the community surrounding Silver Creek — an already world-famous Idaho trout stream – made a huge leap forward. They convinced the Conservancy to come to Idaho and purchase the initial property that became Silver Creek Preserve. As you move east, the landscape dries out and from a distance looks very much like Idaho sagebrush steppe. . In contrast, 60 percent of Idaho is public land. MORE
In what might qualify as a wildlife version of a “selfie,” this North Idaho black bear apparently bumped the camera trap, hanging five feet off the ground in an aspen tree. The camera trap was set at Ball Creek Ranch Preserve , in the Kootenai Valley of North Idaho. You can see more camera trap photos from North Idaho in a previous Camera Trap Chronicles blog ). The black bear naps underneath the camera trap in Idaho’s Kootenai Valley. MORE
Idaho outpaced Washington with a 10 percent drop in miles driven per person. Also of note: Washington, Oregon, and Idaho were all at the forefront of the driving reduction trends, with miles driven per person peaking way back in 1999. Busted car. Emma.Maria, cc. A new report from the U.S. MORE
Wolves, a controversial animal in western states, have just been given a death warrant in Idaho. Last week, the Idaho Senate approved a plan to kill up to 90% of the state’s wolves. “These wolves, there’s too many in the state of Idaho now,” said Republican Idaho Senator Mark Harris during a Senate debate. “We’re In 1995, they were reintroduced to Idaho. Excerpt from: Idaho okays killing 90% of state’s wolves. MORE
But along the Canada border in northern Idaho and eastern Washington, a struggle is playing out pitting the real-life counterparts of Rudolph (caribou) and Disney’s Bambi (white-tailed deer). Overhunting and logging devastated woodland caribou populations, but animals continued to survive in the Selkirk Mountains of Idaho, Washington and British Columbia. The number that roam into Idaho and Washington had dwindled into the single digits. The forest of North Idaho. MORE
On Thursday, October 16th the Permaculture Action Tour landed in the front lawn of “the homestead,” a collective house in Boise, Idaho. Unseen from the street, the backyard hosts an amazing food garden full of kale and delicious red chard, egg-laying chickens, and sheep. On this day, we brought volunteers to spread the permaculture vision to the entire property surrounding the house, which could be seen from one of Boise’s busiest roadways. MORE
Hundreds of ladybugs make it through our bug containers a week at The Nature Conservancy’s Silver Creek Preserve in south-central Idaho. Many ladybug species are in decline across North America. You can help through the Lost Ladybug Project. Photo: Flickr user Gilles San Martin under a Creative Commons license. Until recently, this had nothing to do with science, just the fact that my two boys like to collect ladybugs. . MORE
It’s Rob Cavallaro, an Idaho Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist. He’s canoeing me and my camera to a blind in the middle of a marsh in Teton Valley, Idaho. One of the best places to see this spectacle in Idaho is the Conservancy’s Flat Ranch Preserve , located west of West Yellowstone (and north of the Teton Valley). While cranes are not especially difficult to find in eastern Idaho, cranes have fallen on hard times. MORE
Why Idaho’s Pioneer Mountains give wildlife room to roam in the face of climate change. The post Giving Wildlife Room to Roam in the Face of Climate Change appeared first on Cool Green Science. Climate Change Climate TNC Science Wildlife MORE
Take for example Idaho resident Scott Brusaw. Brusaw has built a 12 [.] [ Idaho Man Builds 12 Foot Solar Road from Green Living Ideas ]. Tags: Alt Fuels and Transportation Alternative Energy Brusaw Idaho PV PV technology solar solar road solar roadways Necessity is the mother of invention, and garage inventors have been meeting the challenge of climate change head on. MORE
By day, the trout of Silver Creek —a clear, spring-fed stream in southern Idaho—fed on tiny mayflies and caddis flies. The Conservancy’s Central Idaho conservation manager Mark Davidson hoists a monstrous brown trout, caught at night during the “vole hatch.” Vole, it’s what’s for dinner. These three rodents were pulled from the stomach of a brown trout. Ralph Stewart photo. By Matt Miller, senior science writer. MORE
Wednesday night, I’ll be with the Idaho Conservation League and Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper at the Heartwood Center in Sandpoint, Idaho. Two long oil trains, Washington state. by Paul K. Anderson (Used with permission.) Next week, I’ll be keynoting a pair community events in the Inland Northwest on oil trains and coal exports—a region facing an especially severe onslaught of rail traffic. MORE
The remote Owyhee Canyonlands of southwestern Idaho. By Bob Unnasch, Director of Science, The Nature Conservancy in Idaho. I conduct a lot of research in the Owyhees, a remote 5-million-acre expanse of high desert canyons and sagebrush habitat in southwestern Idaho. This blog originally ran on Idaho Nature Notes , The Nature Conservancy in Idaho’s blog. Photo: Will Whelan/TNC. Siri, where is the nearest research plot?”. MORE
Adding to the complexity of public lands grazing, especially in central Idaho, is that wolf predation is common. Dayna Gross is the senior conservation manager for The Nature Conservancy in Idaho Opinions expressed on TALK and in any corresponding comments are the personal opinions of the original authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Nature Conservancy. MORE
But along the Canada border in northern Idaho and eastern Washington, a struggle is playing out pitting the real-life counterparts of Rudolph (caribou) and Disney’s Bambi (white-tailed deer). Overhunting and logging devastated woodland caribou populations, but animals continued to survive in the Selkirk Mountains of Idaho, Washington and British Columbia. The number that roam into Idaho and Washington had dwindled into the single digits. MORE
To make clear the magnitude of the impacts, Sightline has analyzed public at-grade rail crossings from Sandpoint, Idaho to Cherry Point, Washington. In this first installment in the series, we examine crossings in the portion of Idaho designated by the red box below: Coal trains from the Powder River Basin and oil trains from the Bakken oil fields take the same route through Idaho and Washington on BNSF rail lines. Rather, we depict several representative locations in Idaho. MORE
Skip to navigation Advanced Search Document Actions Sections Front Page Daily News Daily Score Blog The Daily Score Dont Know Much About History Posted by Roger Valdez 01/27/2011 06:00 PM Idaho governor unveils plans to nullify federal health legislation. The Governor of Idaho, C.L. Butch” Otter, completed at least a college education according to his biography on the official State of Idaho website. Skip to content. MORE
Skip to navigation Advanced Search Document Actions Sections Front Page Daily News Daily Score Blog The Daily Score Dont Know Much About History Posted by Roger Valdez 01/27/2011 06:00 PM Idaho governor unveils plans to nullify federal health legislation. The Governor of Idaho, C.L. Butch” Otter, completed at least a college education according to his biography on the official State of Idaho website. Skip to content. MORE
WinCo Foods, Boise, Idaho, is scheduled to open its first two Texas stores on Thursday, with at least three more Texas locations due over the next 13 months, the company said. Prices as good or better than Wal-Mart? Healthcare coverage with dental and vision as low as $40 a month for employees? MORE
Moose captured via trail camera in North Idaho’s forest. Camera traps, also called trail cameras, are a great tool for biologists to record the presence of elusive wildlife, like North Idaho’s grizzly bears. Photo courtesy: Idaho Department of FIsh & Game. Today’s installment features photos from working forests in North Idaho. Grizzly bears using working forest at Boundary Creek, Idaho. Photo courtesy: Idaho Department of Fish & Game. MORE
Nine years ago this week I moved into the house on The Nature Conservancy’s Silver Creek Preserve in south-central Idaho. Now we are home and outside every minute we can even though it is spring in Idaho and we have to fight the rain and hail. . Kids Argentina family Idaho kids kids in nature nature preserves outdoor recreation Silver Creek Growing up on the preserve. Photo: Sara Sheehy/TNC. By Dayna Gross. Few people come to our birthday parties. MORE
Shane Rosenkrance, a fifth-generation rancher who manages the Mountain Springs Ranch in central Idaho, offers this: “For the most part the adversarial relationship with federal land managers is over. Contrast Rosenkrance’s philosophy with the old mindset as enunciated by Oakley, Idaho rancher Winslow Whiteley (1910-1995). And he has helped organize an alliance of like-minded ranchers who call themselves the Central Idaho Rangeland Network. MORE
The observatory tagged three birds last year, and added 11 new tagged birds this year – birds that nested at the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming and several spots in Idaho. One of the tagged curlews this year originates from The Nature Conservancy’s Flat Ranch Preserve , located in eastern Idaho just west of West Yellowstone. A 2011 survey by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (an active partner in the curlew effort) found 46 birds. MORE
According to the Wall Street Journal, the closest facilities are hundreds of miles away in states like Idaho, Colorado, Utah, and Montana. North Dakota recently discovered piles of garbage bags containing radioactive waste dumped by oil drillers in abandoned buildings. Now, the state is trying to catch up to an oil industry that produces an estimated 27 tons of radioactive debris from wells daily. MORE
Idaho Related Topics AGreenLiving
APRIL 27, 2021
Wolves, a controversial animal in western states, have just been given a death warrant in Idaho. Last week, the Idaho Senate approved a plan to kill up to 90% of the state’s wolves. “These wolves, there’s too many in the state of Idaho now,” said Republican Idaho Senator Mark Harris during a Senate debate. “We’re In 1995, they were reintroduced to Idaho. Excerpt from: Idaho okays killing 90% of state’s wolves.
Nature Conservancy - Science
DECEMBER 9, 2013
Moose captured via trail camera in North Idaho’s forest. Camera traps, also called trail cameras, are a great tool for biologists to record the presence of elusive wildlife, like North Idaho’s grizzly bears. Photo courtesy: Idaho Department of FIsh & Game. Today’s installment features photos from working forests in North Idaho. Grizzly bears using working forest at Boundary Creek, Idaho. Photo courtesy: Idaho Department of Fish & Game.
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Cool Green Science
OCTOBER 13, 2014
For the past seven years, I’ve been writing conservation agreements for salmon in the Lemhi River, working from my faraway desk here in Boise, Idaho’s capital city. Seeing wild Chinook salmon in Idaho is like that. I read the data, so I believe there are salmon in Idaho, and I work on their conservation as an act of hope. For more on the story of the Conservancy and salmon in Idaho, check out this video of our work at Lee Creek.
Green Living Ideas
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
Take for example Idaho resident Scott Brusaw. Brusaw has built a 12 [.] [ Idaho Man Builds 12 Foot Solar Road from Green Living Ideas ]. Tags: Alt Fuels and Transportation Alternative Energy Brusaw Idaho PV PV technology solar solar road solar roadways Necessity is the mother of invention, and garage inventors have been meeting the challenge of climate change head on.
Cool Green Science
APRIL 3, 2014
Almost forty years ago, the community surrounding Silver Creek — an already world-famous Idaho trout stream – made a huge leap forward. They convinced the Conservancy to come to Idaho and purchase the initial property that became Silver Creek Preserve. As you move east, the landscape dries out and from a distance looks very much like Idaho sagebrush steppe. . In contrast, 60 percent of Idaho is public land.
AGreenLiving
MAY 20, 2020
When a family sought reprieve from the rigors of urban living, they asked Salt Lake City-based architecture firm Imbue Design to design a retreat for them in the “middle of nowhere” in southern Idaho. Self-sustaining retreat in Idaho is the perfect social distancing getaway.
Sightline Daily
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
To make clear the magnitude of the impacts, Sightline has analyzed public at-grade rail crossings from Sandpoint, Idaho to Cherry Point, Washington. In this first installment in the series, we examine crossings in the portion of Idaho designated by the red box below: Coal trains from the Powder River Basin and oil trains from the Bakken oil fields take the same route through Idaho and Washington on BNSF rail lines. Rather, we depict several representative locations in Idaho.
Green (Living) Review
APRIL 24, 2010
Dugout Dick was the last of Idaho's river-canyon loners that date back to Territorial days. They were drawn by Idaho's remoteness and wild places removed from social pressures. Richard Zimmerman, known to all as Dugout Dick, dies in his cave age 94 – R.I.P. by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Known to some as the "Salmon River Caveman," but to most as “Dugout Dick”, Richard Zimmerman lived a lifestyle that was essentially a 19th century one.
Nature Conservancy - Science
JULY 23, 2013
The Nature Conservancy’s Flat Ranch is a nature preserve and working cattle ranch located 15 miles west of West Yellowstone, in Macks Inn, Idaho, just off Highway 20. A large bull elk peers from the forest at Yellowstone National Park. Photo: Matt Miller/TNC. By Matt Miller, senior science writer. The Traveling Naturalist, our series featuring natural wonders and biological curiosities for the science-inclined wanderer.
Green Traveler Guides
JULY 21, 2014
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Nature Conservancy - Science
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
By day, the trout of Silver Creek —a clear, spring-fed stream in southern Idaho—fed on tiny mayflies and caddis flies. The Conservancy’s Central Idaho conservation manager Mark Davidson hoists a monstrous brown trout, caught at night during the “vole hatch.” Vole, it’s what’s for dinner. These three rodents were pulled from the stomach of a brown trout. Ralph Stewart photo. By Matt Miller, senior science writer.
Nature Conservancy - Science
JULY 9, 2013
Hundreds of ladybugs make it through our bug containers a week at The Nature Conservancy’s Silver Creek Preserve in south-central Idaho. Many ladybug species are in decline across North America. You can help through the Lost Ladybug Project. Photo: Flickr user Gilles San Martin under a Creative Commons license. Until recently, this had nothing to do with science, just the fact that my two boys like to collect ladybugs. .
Nature Conservancy - Science
JANUARY 13, 2014
In what might qualify as a wildlife version of a “selfie,” this North Idaho black bear apparently bumped the camera trap, hanging five feet off the ground in an aspen tree. The camera trap was set at Ball Creek Ranch Preserve , in the Kootenai Valley of North Idaho. You can see more camera trap photos from North Idaho in a previous Camera Trap Chronicles blog ). The black bear naps underneath the camera trap in Idaho’s Kootenai Valley.
Nature Conservancy - Science
FEBRUARY 20, 2013
Watching my boys grow up on The Nature Conservancy’s Silver Creek Preserve in south-central Idaho –where I work as manager– I am amazed on a daily basis how much they notice. . A young scientist captures insects at Silver Creek Preserve. Credit: Sara Sheehy/TNC. By Dayna Gross, Silver Creek preserve manager. It was a normal Sunday for us. Mid-morning, we walked down to the creek to throw some rocks in the water and look for critters.
Nature Conservancy - Science
DECEMBER 23, 2013
But along the Canada border in northern Idaho and eastern Washington, a struggle is playing out pitting the real-life counterparts of Rudolph (caribou) and Disney’s Bambi (white-tailed deer). Overhunting and logging devastated woodland caribou populations, but animals continued to survive in the Selkirk Mountains of Idaho, Washington and British Columbia. The number that roam into Idaho and Washington had dwindled into the single digits.
Cool Green Science
APRIL 11, 2014
Nine years ago this week I moved into the house on The Nature Conservancy’s Silver Creek Preserve in south-central Idaho. Now we are home and outside every minute we can even though it is spring in Idaho and we have to fight the rain and hail. . Kids Argentina family Idaho kids kids in nature nature preserves outdoor recreation Silver Creek Growing up on the preserve. Photo: Sara Sheehy/TNC. By Dayna Gross. Few people come to our birthday parties.
Nature Conservancy - Science
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Why Idaho’s Pioneer Mountains give wildlife room to roam in the face of climate change. The post Giving Wildlife Room to Roam in the Face of Climate Change appeared first on Cool Green Science. Climate Change Climate TNC Science Wildlife
Nature Conservancy - Science
AUGUST 18, 2014
Living in Boise, Idaho – an arid city where we get less than 10 inches of rain a year – we wanted a yard that reduced our water use (most yards here require irrigation) and that also provided habitat for native critters. Plants Idaho native plants plants xeriscaping Chocolate flowers. Photo: Matt Miller/TNC. By Matt Miller, senior science writer. As I stepped out my front door this morning, I was greeted by a familiar summer aroma: a tray of brownies cooking in the oven.
Sightline Daily
JANUARY 27, 2011
Skip to navigation Advanced Search Document Actions Sections Front Page Daily News Daily Score Blog The Daily Score Dont Know Much About History Posted by Roger Valdez 01/27/2011 06:00 PM Idaho governor unveils plans to nullify federal health legislation. The Governor of Idaho, C.L. Butch” Otter, completed at least a college education according to his biography on the official State of Idaho website. Skip to content.
Nature Conservancy - Science
MAY 6, 2013
Conservation Planning Freshwater Science conservation visualization Dayna Gross Dayna Gross Silver Creek Idaho conservation Kilpatrick Pond restoration nature ar Nature Conservancy Silver Creek science art scientific art scientific illustration Silver Creek Preserve stream restoration Silver Creek Preserve manager Dayna Gross used her love of painting to help convey complex stream restoration plans. by Dayna Gross, Silver Creek Preserve manager.
Nature Conservancy - Science
JULY 22, 2013
The remote Owyhee Canyonlands of southwestern Idaho. By Bob Unnasch, Director of Science, The Nature Conservancy in Idaho. I conduct a lot of research in the Owyhees, a remote 5-million-acre expanse of high desert canyons and sagebrush habitat in southwestern Idaho. This blog originally ran on Idaho Nature Notes , The Nature Conservancy in Idaho’s blog. Photo: Will Whelan/TNC. Siri, where is the nearest research plot?”.
Nature Conservancy - Science
AUGUST 26, 2013
The Conservancy’s conservation manager for the Silver Creek area in Idaho is a Jill-of-all-trades and a master of opposites, blending a love for art and science, of things big and small, of being active and sitting still. Dayna Gross, Silver Creek conservation manager. Interview by Darci Palmquist, senior science writer.
Sightline Daily
JANUARY 27, 2011
Skip to navigation Advanced Search Document Actions Sections Front Page Daily News Daily Score Blog The Daily Score Dont Know Much About History Posted by Roger Valdez 01/27/2011 06:00 PM Idaho governor unveils plans to nullify federal health legislation. The Governor of Idaho, C.L. Butch” Otter, completed at least a college education according to his biography on the official State of Idaho website. Skip to content.
Nature Conservancy - Science
MAY 15, 2013
By Ryan Haugo, Washington-Idaho Forest Ecologist. In Idaho, the Mustang Complex alone burned 300,000 acres. Last September an intense late summer lightning storm rolled across the Pacific Northwest, starting fires in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. That month I had a series of meetings across eastern Washington and northern Idaho. Table Mountain Fire, eastern Cascades, Washington, September 2012. The 2012 Pacific Northwest wildfire season was one for the record books.
Nature Conservancy - Science
MARCH 22, 2017
That scene has been repeated too many times near my Idaho home this winter. In January, the shrub caused the death of a herd of 50 pronghorn near Payette, Idaho, garnering significant media attention. Many areas of Idaho have received a lot of snowfall this year. The Idaho Statesman reported an instance where an Idaho Department of Fish and Game officer was educating a homeowner about the dangers of the shrub.
Sightline Daily
JUNE 18, 2015
Wednesday night, I’ll be with the Idaho Conservation League and Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper at the Heartwood Center in Sandpoint, Idaho. Two long oil trains, Washington state. by Paul K. Anderson (Used with permission.) Next week, I’ll be keynoting a pair community events in the Inland Northwest on oil trains and coal exports—a region facing an especially severe onslaught of rail traffic.
Nature Conservancy - Science
DECEMBER 14, 2015
It’s Rob Cavallaro, an Idaho Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist. He’s canoeing me and my camera to a blind in the middle of a marsh in Teton Valley, Idaho. One of the best places to see this spectacle in Idaho is the Conservancy’s Flat Ranch Preserve , located west of West Yellowstone (and north of the Teton Valley). While cranes are not especially difficult to find in eastern Idaho, cranes have fallen on hard times.
Environmental Economics
OCTOBER 4, 2013
and hunting in a "designated elk state" (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon or Wyoming), then the contingent valuation method can be used without much slippage. [link]. Aren't you supposed to be quiet when you are hunting? If so, why are they yelling? And the third panel is ominous. Mark thinks that there is a wierd relationship between Johnny Walker and the Senator, he is pairing them up and then telling them to take careful aim.
Cool Green Science
AUGUST 3, 2015
Adding to the complexity of public lands grazing, especially in central Idaho, is that wolf predation is common. Dayna Gross is the senior conservation manager for The Nature Conservancy in Idaho Opinions expressed on TALK and in any corresponding comments are the personal opinions of the original authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Nature Conservancy.
Nature Conservancy - Science
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
A two and a half hour drive to Salmon, Idaho is turning into four. Wildlife are getting as sick of walking around in four feet of snow as I am,” says Daryl Meints, Idaho Department of Fish and Game regional wildlife manager. Idaho Department of Fish and Game doesn’t make a habit of feeding wildlife in winter, but this year, it’s on. A moose recently fell into a window well in Hailey, Idaho. The highway looks more like a track for the luge than a road for my truck.
Nature Conservancy - Science
MAY 1, 2017
Shane Rosenkrance, a fifth-generation rancher who manages the Mountain Springs Ranch in central Idaho, offers this: “For the most part the adversarial relationship with federal land managers is over. Contrast Rosenkrance’s philosophy with the old mindset as enunciated by Oakley, Idaho rancher Winslow Whiteley (1910-1995). And he has helped organize an alliance of like-minded ranchers who call themselves the Central Idaho Rangeland Network.
Nature Conservancy - Science
NOVEMBER 19, 2014
In this video, researchers are tracking wolves in a remote Idaho forest. You can see here the different intensities of a fire in the Hells Canyon region of Idaho. Hummingbird as seen in infrared. Image courtesy of This video wasn’t taken for research, but illustrates the hummingbird’s variation in body temperature – from its super-heated body to its fluttering wings. Video courtesy of Nature Conservancy partner John Romero of Owyhee Air Research.
Nature Conservancy - Science
DECEMBER 18, 2014
But along the Canada border in northern Idaho and eastern Washington, a struggle is playing out pitting the real-life counterparts of Rudolph (caribou) and Disney’s Bambi (white-tailed deer). Overhunting and logging devastated woodland caribou populations, but animals continued to survive in the Selkirk Mountains of Idaho, Washington and British Columbia. The number that roam into Idaho and Washington had dwindled into the single digits. The forest of North Idaho.
Nature Conservancy - Science
JULY 27, 2016
It’s one of three pelican nesting colonies in Idaho. The several hundred pelicans nesting on Gull Island don’t stay on the island so Idaho Department of Fish and Game bands them to find out where they go. The birds come to Idaho to nest. Pelicans are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act so Idaho Department of Fish and Game needs a federal permit to take action. I’m bent at the waist in gag stance for all the crew to see.
Nature Conservancy - Science
AUGUST 4, 2014
The observatory tagged three birds last year, and added 11 new tagged birds this year – birds that nested at the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming and several spots in Idaho. One of the tagged curlews this year originates from The Nature Conservancy’s Flat Ranch Preserve , located in eastern Idaho just west of West Yellowstone. A 2011 survey by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (an active partner in the curlew effort) found 46 birds.
Nature Conservancy - Science
OCTOBER 19, 2016
Trans-Border region — between southern British Columbia, northern Idaho, Montana and northeastern Washington. Northern Idaho is a remarkable place where wild animals such as grizzly bear, lynx, and wolverine still roam. These species travel incredible distances crossing valleys, entire mountain ranges, and political boundaries,” said Robyn Miller, director of conservation programs for the Conservancy in Idaho. Collared grizzly bear number 106 became a local legend of sorts.
Green (Living) Review
NOVEMBER 27, 2014
According to the Wall Street Journal, the closest facilities are hundreds of miles away in states like Idaho, Colorado, Utah, and Montana. North Dakota recently discovered piles of garbage bags containing radioactive waste dumped by oil drillers in abandoned buildings. Now, the state is trying to catch up to an oil industry that produces an estimated 27 tons of radioactive debris from wells daily.
Green (Living) Review
JANUARY 11, 2015
WinCo Foods, Boise, Idaho, is scheduled to open its first two Texas stores on Thursday, with at least three more Texas locations due over the next 13 months, the company said. Prices as good or better than Wal-Mart? Healthcare coverage with dental and vision as low as $40 a month for employees?
Nature Conservancy - Science
JULY 16, 2017
Over the course of seven weeks, it moved to eastern Idaho, into the northern part of Yellowstone National Park, back to the Tetons and then on to Montana (where, unfortunately, it was trapped and killed). In the contiguous United States, Glacier National Park in Montana and the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho are probably your best bets – but you’re looking at lottery odds. And I could get lucky like my friend Jeff Barney, who saw one on a backpacking trip in Idaho’s Pioneer Mountains.
Green (Living) Review
NOVEMBER 6, 2014
On Thursday, October 16th the Permaculture Action Tour landed in the front lawn of “the homestead,” a collective house in Boise, Idaho. Unseen from the street, the backyard hosts an amazing food garden full of kale and delicious red chard, egg-laying chickens, and sheep. On this day, we brought volunteers to spread the permaculture vision to the entire property surrounding the house, which could be seen from one of Boise’s busiest roadways.
Sightline Daily
AUGUST 29, 2013
Idaho outpaced Washington with a 10 percent drop in miles driven per person. Also of note: Washington, Oregon, and Idaho were all at the forefront of the driving reduction trends, with miles driven per person peaking way back in 1999. Busted car. Emma.Maria, cc. A new report from the U.S.
Eco Friendly Daily
MARCH 9, 2013
However, Vilsack does not have authority over the state of Idaho. Idaho and Colorado were the two states which decided to develop their own forest road rules. The approximately 9 million acres of national forests in Idaho will remain under the control Idaho’s state government. The Obama administration recently announced a moratorium on road-building in national forests.
Nature Conservancy - Science
JUNE 21, 2017
Fish and Wildlife Service biologists Greg Burak and Dave Hopper have invited me on their monitoring surveys for this snail species, found only in the Thousand Springs region of southern Idaho. The Snake River – the large tributary of the Columbia – winds its way through this part of Idaho. As Idaho was settled, both the federal government and farmers worked to “make the desert bloom.” Idaho’s Galapagos.
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