Teams of FSPW volunteers have been engaged in subalpine community reconnaissance over the last few weeks, traversing extreme terrain at times to reach areas with high potential for whitebark…
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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.
Winds in the Wilderness
Why is "Weed Warriors" an appropriate term for our dedicated volunteers? Many reasons come to mind, not the least of which is the recent 3 week ambush on wilderness trails…
Winds in the Wilderness
"Noxious." "Obnoxious." "Easily killed." These are three tiers used in weed management to indicate levels of concern. The words seem to suggest our personal feelings toward weedy plants. They come…
Volunteers get paid in personal tender.
Dear Current and Former FSPW leaders, Well, here I am in the library of the University of Wyoming. Being an "old guy," I still enjoy browsing amongst the periodicals...touching real…
Winds in the Wilderness
June. The training month. It happens every year in Natural Resource Management. We wait forever for the wetness of spring to melt away mushy pads of snow over the forest…
Winds in the Wilderness
In attempting to begin a mid-weekly blog about Scotchman's Peaks Wilderness stewardship activities, in the tradition of my predecessor, it is readily apparent that selecting one day of the week to…
Noxious Weeds Training
A two day training class in noxious weed identification and survey techniques for our restoration stewardship project in the Lightning Creek “Treasured Landscape.”
Botany Training Session
A three day training class in botanical survey techniques - field identification of native plants for our botanical study project in the Lightning Creek “Treasured Landscape.”
