Monthly Archives: November 2009

The Thanksgiving Day weekend is over, family and guests have gone home and we are all tired of turkey and turkey leftovers!  Black Friday was a push and shove fest for those who battled the lines at the big box stores in Coeur D’Alene for deep discounts.  For others Friday was a wonderland of white [...]

We are staring a new feature – Wilderness Wednesday – it’s available only to Friends of Scotchman Peaks who follow us on our Blog, Facebook fan page or Twitter.  We kicked things off with a Facebook Photo contest last week.  Our Facebook fan page followers responded with a lot of great photos!  You can visit [...]

The recently passed legislation designating the Owyhees as Wilderness and the Jobs and Forest Act, currently introduced by Senator Jon Tester which would designate over 600,000 acres of wilderness in Montana, both came about as a result of community discussions and collaboration among stakeholders. While not the only pathway forward, collaboration has been one way [...]

Congressional Members are elected representatives.  Like all politicians they want, in fact they need, to act in ways in which they believe their constituents want them to act.  Unless they are out of touch and want to have only one term, their views and their votes will reflect the will of the people.
In the process [...]

If the Scotchman Peaks proposal is impacted by what’s happening national  for wilderness then certainly the most significant of  those events are the events which are taking place in our immediate region.
The 2009 Lands Omnibus Bill included Wilderness designation for the Owyhees, Idaho’s first new wilderness are in over two decades! Senator Crapo has already [...]

Designating Wilderness requires congressional legislation.  But congress doesn’t act in a vacuum. Politics, it has been said, is the “art of the possible.” What is possible depends on what has already happened before; and it depends on what else is going on now. There is a constant give and take in the dance that [...]

Clouds outside my window these last several days suggest snow has been  falling softly on the Scotchmans.  The reality is probably that the wind is whipping the snow into a blinding white-out fury on the peaks! Meanwhile the valley bottoms are likely receiving rain.  But you get the idea – winter is on the way.  [...]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then our stunning slide show has tales enough for two volumes of Scotchman Stories!
In the last 4 plus years we’ve amassed a photo catalogue of about 14,000 images from various places of the Scotchmans, during different seasons featuring scenery, wild flowers, critters and lots of people.  With [...]

I can’t believe the glorious weather that November brought for us Tuesday – it was another fine fall day!  Blue skies outside all day. And as I looked across the lake at the West Cabinet Mountains in the distance I just couldn’t believe that I was stuck inside – unable to get in a nice [...]