Educational opportunities, hikes and trail projects on three ranger districts highlight Friends’ summer. National Trails Day is Saturday, June 2, and Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness are sponsoring three National…
Author: Sandy Compton
Sandy Compton has been program coordinator for Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness since 2009. He is also a storyteller and author of both fiction and non-fiction books, and the publisher at bluecreekpress.com.
In addition to his other duties, he runs the FSPW All Star Trail Team (www.scotchmanpeaks.org/trails), which works on Forest Service trails in the Scotchman Peaks. He is a trail surveyor as well, and a C-Certified Crosscut Bucker/Feller and USFS National Saw Policy OHLEC instructor.
Sandy grew up on a small farm/woodlot at the south end of the proposed wilderness and lives there still. He is also board member of the National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance and a planning team member for the Northern Rockies Wilderness Skills Institute.
Who will be the 2012 Old Goat! Find out May 26th.
State of the Scotchmans, fun and educational summer hikes, and historic stewardship projects! First thing first. At 4:00, Saturday, May 26, we gather at Oden Communnity Hall (here's a map)…
Online Auction: Four Days on Lake Creek with 15 Friends
Thanks to Dale and Patty Myers of In The Shadow of the Cabinets for their generous donation of four nights for up to 16 people in their beautiful and big…
Sure is quiet around here.
April 11 and the wolverine watch is over. Ms. Brasseur, our intrepid wolverine project leader, is off to the desert for some well-deserved vacation, and the revolving door that the…
Free wildlife films slated for Libby and Thompson Falls, February 10 and 11
The Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness will bring three spectacular films from The International Wildlife Film Festival to two Western Montana venues on the second weekend of February. IWFF, based…
Eighth-graders take the honors in the Sanders County essay contest
Leah Thompson, and eighth grade student at Plains Middle School won a $100 Savings Bond for her essay on "Does Wilderness Have Value?" in the annual Sanders County essay contest.…
Four wines. Four new labels, all from out Plein Air painters
Come Monday the 28th and check out the wine, meet the new wolverine project coordinator, and hang out with your Friends! 4:30 to 8:30 at the Pend Oreille Winery at…
Kelsey Brasseur is our new Wolverine Project Coordinator
Kelsey Brasseur, fresh from the Alaskan research fields, has signed on to coordinate the FSPW rare carnivore study for the 2011-12 winter season. Working with Idaho Department of Fish and…