When I was in college, I wanted a job working in the wilderness. I, however, had a problem. While I had been on many group backpacking trips in well-traveled wilderness...
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Roughly 60 miles south of Canada, the 88,000 acre Scotchman Peaks roadless area spans the Idaho-Montana border. Since the 1970s, when the U.S. Forest Service carried out extensive evaluations of lands suitable for wilderness, this rugged, scenic and biologically diverse portion of the Cabinet Mountains has been managed for its wilderness potential. The Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness believe now is the time to preserve the Scotchmans, one of the last, and largest, wild areas in our region.
Changing your outlook changes everything.
By Elloria Lambert,
Clark Fork High School Class of 2019
My most memorable outdoor experience took place my sophomore...
Celebrate 15 FSPW years with the Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Feb. 1
Friends
of Scotchman Peaks bringing SYRCL Wild & Scenic Film Festival to Sandpoint.
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Family fun in wilderness
Above: Aaron Johnson in one of the less miserable moments of the 2016 Extreme Plein Air Expedition (Photo by Joe Foster, dappstudios.com)
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The Shortest Hunt
"As long as we had water nearby and a semi-flat site to pitch a small shelter we would be fine. "
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3 a.m. and wide awake in the wilderness
By Ed Robinson
It's 3:00 am and I am suddenly awake.
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Flip-flops and Mountain Goats
Yeo Won Yarnell's essay was the best of the 2019 FSPW Scholarship Competition.
I was raised in a household that highly values doing outdoor activities like...
For the children, present and future.
"When I go into the Scotchmans," Matt Nykiel says, "I love imagining the generations of people before me who saw and experienced the same incredibly rugged landscape that still exists in the...