At 4:00, Saturday, May 26, we gather at Oden Communnity Hall (here’s a map) for our annual State of the Scotchmans meeting. Bring a dish to share, a favorite beverage and dinner service. Find out who our 2012 Old Goat award goes to, help honor some of our other valiant volunteers and get the lowdown of the search for wolverines from Michael Lucid, Idaho Fish and Game Biologist. You might even meet our 4,00th friend!

Read more about the upcoming summer here.

This position has been filled. Thanks for your interest!

Work (and play) in the Scotchmans this summer!

If you are comfortable in an office as well as the back country and have a love for the wild outdoors, then the Scotchman Peaks straddling the Idaho/Montana border just south of Canada are calling you! The job is part time, and runs from late May through mid-October.

This position is a learning experience. The successful candidate will gain training and valuable insights while in the office and the field into many phases of wilderness advocacy and stewardship, including the politics and history of wilderness, effective public relations, effective social media marketing and networking, website maintenance, hands-on trail work, leadership experience, back-country experience and volunteer recruitment and coordination. This organization places a high emphasis on the successful combination of hard work and fun and achieves great results from both. Expect to be drawn into and welcomed by the culture of Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness. It will be a summer you will not likely soon forget.

Click on the link below to download a complete job description.

http://www.scotchmanpeaks.org/docs/FSPW SummerProjectCoordinatorDescription.pdf

We surely don’t expect to get all 4,000 of our Friends into the Panida on April 26, but we would surely like to get as many as we can to come out for an evening of entertainment and opportunity to meet our 4,00th friend. We don’t know who they are yet, but we are getting closer momentarily, and one of these days soon, somebody will sign up for that momentous honor.

Plan to come meet our 4,000th friend, enjoy a no host bar from Eichardt’s (one of our major sponsors for this event, along with KPND), and bid on a plethora of silent auction items. Among other things, you will be able to vie for a one of four chances to be among only 10 volunteer “mule wrangler” when the famous USFS Nine-Mile Pack Train comes to pack restoration supplies to the Star Peak Lookout in late July. There are a very limited number of places on this crew, so bid early and often. We will also have some great raffle and door prizes.

Enjoy the musical stylings of Fiddlin’ Red and Samantha Carstens, as well as some “true and not-so-true” tales from the StoryTelling Company. Tickets are $10, and will soon be available at Eve’s Leaves and Eichardt’s. Wear your FSPW volunteer hat or Wolverine Watch cap and get a nice surprise at the door.

Put on your Wolverine Watch cap and join us for a potluck and the First Annual Wolverine Volunteer Bad-ass Awards at Eureka Center West on Sunday, April 1, between 2 and 5 p.m.

FSPW will provide beverages of the adult kind, as well as enough wood for a good old-fashioned bonfire. Come toast your buns, meet your fellow wolverine watch vols, exchange tales from the trails, enjoy a libation or two and welcome April!

Eureka Center West is in the Granary Block between Oak and Church and Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Sandpoint. Just look for the large and unruly crowd wearing Wolverine Watch caps.

Please bring your own recyclable or reusable dinner service and something tasty to share.