The 4th Annual Scotchman Peaks Plein Air Paintout convened in Hope, Idaho, on September 23, 24 and 25, the first weekend of fall, with Kally Thurman’s Outskirts Gallery and the…
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.
Thanks to all the folks who helped plant trees!
This week we finished up planting 3500 while pine in the Lightning Creek drainage. We focused our planting in the East Fork and Char Creek watersheds where we converted about…
FSPW wins Zoo Boise grant in a landslide.
It sounds like election news, and it sort of is. In a public vote held by Zoo Boise that ended last Friday, October 28, the wolverine study proposal written by…
Sanders County Waterfest was damp and fun.
Not often do I get the chance to spend much of a day with a bunch of 11-year-olds. Not often enough, anyway. But when I do, it's a blessing and…
FSPW will table at Radical Reels on October 15.
Friends of Scotchman Peaks will once again be present at Radical Reels, the adrenaline filled off-shoot of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour coming to North Idaho’s Panida Theater…
Friends of Scotchman Peak Wilderness spread the word to Ft Lauderdale, FLA
Hi, I’m Jim Murphy administrative assistant in training at FSPW.I joined the group August 1st of this year. It has been an exciting time and I thought I would share…
First Annual ECO Fair – through the eyes of the new-bee
Hi, I'm Jim Murphy and I recently joined Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness. This is my first blog. If you weren’t at the August 13 Eco-Fair in Sandpoint, you missed a great…
Pillick Ridge Trail #1036 gets a “face” lift from Forest Service, FSPW
The east end of Pillick Ridge on the Kootenai National Forest in Montana is one steep piece of ground — the "Pillick Face," Forest Service Recreation Technician Joel Sather calls…
