Scotchman Peaks In The News

The Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness will bring three spectacular films from The International Wildlife Film Festival to two Western Montana venues on the second weekend of February. IWFF,  based in Missoula, is the source of many great films, a selection of which  will be shown in Libby and Thompson Falls on February 10 and [...]

Kelsey Brasseur, fresh from the Alaskan research fields, has signed on to coordinate the FSPW rare carnivore study for the 2011-12 winter season. Working with Idaho Department of Fish and Game and partner Idaho Conservation League, Brasseur will coordinate volunteers and help track data from bait stations around northern Idaho and western Montana.
“I’m thrilled to [...]

This week we finished up planting 3500 while pine in the Lightning Creek drainage.  We focused our planting in the East Fork and Char Creek watersheds  where we converted about 9 miles miles of old road to a non-motorized trail.  We also planted lower Rattle Creek, Porcupine [...]

Friends of Scotchman Peaks will once again be present at Radical Reels, the adrenaline filled off-shoot of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour coming to North Idaho’s Panida Theater on Thursday night, October 13, 2011.  Doors will open at 5:30pm with films starting at 6:30pm.  Tickets are once again $12.00 in [...]

It’s been in the works for a while, but Regal Creek Trail #556 in the Lightning Creek drainage north of Clark Fork, Idaho, is “back in the system.” A trail crew from Idaho Panhandle National Forests Sandpoint District, with the help of volunteers from Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness, recently finished clearing the last mile [...]

Progress in wilderness advocacy is measured on the ground, as it were, at the grass roots, and Idaho and Montana wilderness group Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness finds itself better rooted by two current and important endorsements. Read the rest of the story here.

Read the winning essays by clicking on the highlighted names.
Each year, in two events sponsored by Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness, elementary and high school students from Sanders and Lincoln Counties, Montana, and Bonner County, Idaho, exercise their writing skills. Each fall, students at Plains, Thompson Falls, Trout Creek and Noxon weigh in on wilderness [...]

Lauren Mitchell of Bath, New York, arrived May 24 to start a 16-week stint as a Student Conservation Association intern for Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness. Lauren will be assisting staff in many areas, including taking primary responsibility for our summer hikes program and cooperative work projects with the Forest Service.
Lauren is a graduate of [...]

Three artists, in the company of a small, but nimble film crew from Wildman Pictures, went into the Scotchman Peaks last summer to make art in the wilderness. This second version of the Extreme Plein Air hike, then, became the subject of En Plein Air, a documentary about the process and the place. Shot by [...]