A Most Memorable Wilderness Experience By Lyndsie Kiebert “I stood on the porch steps with my boots in hand as the sun rose. I gazed over the tree line…
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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.
Life Off the Grid — A Joshua Johnson story written by Andrea Carnegie
This story was the winning 2014 scholarship essay from Lake Pend Oreille High School in Sandpoint For eight or nine years I lived up a mountain on Trapper Creek on…
Coming VERY soon to a Bull Lake near you!
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Winds in the Wilderness
The snow is melting in the footsteps of eager hikers, and the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness are enjoying these early season excursions into the wilderness in the spirit of…
Real Beauty
By Megan Hight, Troy, Montana The time had come. I was the oldest child; my dad had been waiting my whole life for this moment and I wasn’t about to…
Libby High School Scholarship Winner Jared Winslow
The Joy of Walking Montana Wilderness July in northwest Montana is a time for exploration. Cool mornings and hot afternoons mirror the stark contrast in topography one can find by…
My First Week In The Scotchmans
By Caleb Church For those of you who don’t know me or who haven’t met me yet, I’m interning for FSPW. I work for Patagonia out of the Chicago Mag…
Documentaries now available on our Photos and Movie page
Check out the two films from Wildman Pictures documenting the Scotchmans and FSPW's efforts. See the official trailers for both films below. Grass Routes - Changing the Conversation "The inspired…
