"As long as we had water nearby and a semi-flat site to pitch a small shelter we would be fine. " By Jared Lampton Despite being a lifelong hunter and…
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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.
3 a.m. and wide awake in the wilderness
By Ed Robinson It's 3:00 am and I am suddenly awake. So . . . the question is: a.) Did something wake me?; or b.) Did the memory of the…
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 hiking, biking and skiing. …
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…
Man Vs. Nature
By Kelly Butts-Spirito Eugenio Montale once wrote, “The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any…
Fourteen years of FSPW will be celebrated January 13!
Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness will celebrate 14 years of working for wilderness on January 13th at the Pend Oreille Arts Council Gallery on the Cedar Street Bridge. The party…
A Winter Forest Choir
By Brian Baxter After the snowfall, Old Man Winter rests. He is warm now, with his long white hair flowing down his shoulders. After conjuring up infinite patterns of snow…
An Intern’s Summer in the Scotchman Peaks
By Jacob Arrington When I first applied for the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Backcountry Ranger position, I knew very little of what I was getting into. I knew that…
