Spar Peak guards its creek with rocky cliffs, providing a rough edge to the lush valley below. Some of us were lucky enough this last week to share the view…
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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.
Tuesday Trail Talk
I was enthralled by the wild long before I ever saw a wilderness. As a child growing up on a Michigan farm, the woodlots became forests and the clouds on…
Tuesday Trail Talk
We guard wild land for our children so that they may experience its magnificence and impart its value to generations yet to come. There are two special weeks this summer…
Tuesday Trail Talk
Surrounding the high country lake was a Lilliputian festival of wild flowers. The high elevation and short growing season ensured that the plants put less energy into stem and leaf…
Tuesday Trail Talk
The sky was streaked with various shades of pink and blue- that combination that as kids we called “sky blue-pink”. But there at tree line, the sunset was bigger, clearer,…
Tuesday Trail Talk
I have to admit it- I did not make it to the end of the trail. Nine people and six dogs started up the trail; then there were six people…
Tuesday Trail Talk
The first red-tailed hawk was silhouetted against the trees below us. It gave that piercing call we have heard in all the Western movies; then another hawk screamed above us…
Trail Talk Tuesday June 12
What an exciting weekend! First, Brian Baxter led an Old-Growth Ecology hike to Ross Creek Cedars on Saturday, June 9. Thirteen hardy (and not-so-hardy) souls braved a lovely little rain…
