Spanning the Idaho/Montana border, the Scotchmans are one of the last, and largest, wild areas in our region. We conduct education, outreach and stewardship activities to preserve the rugged, scenic and biologically diverse 88,000 acre Scotchman Peaks Roadless Area. We believe the Scotchman Peaks deserve congressional designation as Wilderness for the benefit and enjoyment of current and future generations.

Category Archives: Press Releases

Support for National Wilderness Month Grows

September 13th, 2009

As you may know from last week’s announcement of President Barak Obama’s Proclamation commemorating of the 45th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act, September is National Wilderness Month.
Below are statements of support for the Proclamation from the Secretaries of Interior (Ken Salazar) and Agriculture (Tom Vilsack).
The Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness hopes you’ll join us [...]

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2009 Annual State Of The Scotchmans

May 1st, 2009

Join the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness at the new Ponderay Events Center (behind Sandpoint Furniture off the east entrance to the Bonner Mall complex) on Tuesday May 26th for our annual “State of the Scotchmans” celebration. Doors open at 5pm to meet and mingle with special guests Congressman Walt Minnick and Wilderness Historian Doug [...]

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Holiday Sip & Shop

November 1st, 2008

For Immediate Release
Date: Friday Nov 21st, 2008
Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Holiday Sip and Shop
The Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness invites you to toast the holidays with us!
On the Monday after Thanksgiving, the family has gone home and the holiday season is just getting into the full swing; so swing out in Scotchmans style.
On Monday [...]

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North Idaho Wilderness Advocate Awarded

May 25th, 2007

May 24, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contacts:
Rick Johnson, (208) 345-6942 ext. 19
Phil Hough, (208) 255-2780

 

Wilderness advocate Phil Hough, of Sagle, Idaho, was awarded the Idaho Conservation League’s highest award for environmental activism on May 19, 2007 during the organization’s Wild Idaho Conference in Stanley, Idaho.
Hough received the Keith and Pat Axline Award for Environmental Activism for his [...]

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Idaho Native Plant Society Supports the Scotchmans

May 12th, 2006

Kinnikinnick Chapter Of The Idaho Native Plant Society

www.nativeplantsociety.org
President
Phil Hough
(208) 255-2780
Vice-President
Rae Charlton
(208) 255-7666
Secretary
Annette Fraser-Runnalls
(208) 263-9234
Treasurer
Marilyn George
(208) 263-9470
Arboretum Manager
Sylvia M. Chatburn
(208) 263-2175
Founder
Lois Wythe
(208) 263-8038
Board Members
Ken Haag
(208) 255-4413
Molly O’Reilly
(208) 255-7336
Nancy Rodgers
(208) 265-2541
Ann Wimberley
(208) 264-5379

Resolution Supporting the Proposed Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Area
The Kinnikinnick chapter of the Idaho Native Plant Society recognizes the need to protect [...]

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Sandpoint City Council Endorses the Scotchmans

April 24th, 2006

No: 06-23
Date: April 19, 2006
RESOLUTION
OF THE CITY COUNCIL
CITY OF SANDPOINT
TITLE:   CITY OF SANDPOINT SUPPORT OF SCOTCHMAN PEAKS WILDERNESS
WHEREAS:  Scotchman Peaks are located above Lake Pend Oreille and the Clark Fork River in the Cabinet Mountains, straddling the Idaho/Montana border, with the highest point in Bonner County at 7,009 feet; and,
WHEREAS:  The [...]

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