When I was younger, my family would often go on camping trips, day hikes, road trips. There was a large priority placed on making sure we got to get outside…
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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.
Voices in the Wilderness: A Day Up Ross Creek
These “journal entries” were written in situ by the hikers that participated in the Ross Creek Cedars Writing Workshop, hosted this July by the Friends. Through a series of prompts,…
Voices in the Wilderness: Taylor Staley
My name is Taylor Staley and I have grown up in the wilderness my entire life. I began experiencing the outdoors at a very young age and it changed me…
Voices in the Wilderness: Caiya Yanick
Caiya Yanick is a graduating Senior at Clark Fork High School. She submitted this essay for FSPW’s high school scholarship contest.
Voices in the Wilderness: Toby Walrath
Keeping a canoe moving smoothly on a calm morning requires nothing more than the person in front pulling in unison with the person in the back; unless the person in…
Voices in the Wilderness: The Toddler Trek
On a chilly fall day, after a wonderful Storytime hosted by the Troy library, a group of parents invited my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and me on a trip to Ross Creek…
Voices in the Wilderness: David Rennke
With all the polarization and strife in the world, it's always interesting to me how different paths can lead us to the same destination. Although I now live in the…
Voices in the Wilderness: Diane Newcomer
In September of 1960, my husband and I, with our two baby boys, moved to a ranch on Lightning Creek Road. My husband got us settled and returned to California…
