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…
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.
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…
USFS, FSPW take back Trail #556.
It’s been in the works for a while, but Regal Creek Trail #556 in the Lightning Creek drainage north of Clark Fork, Idaho, is “back in the system.” Read all…
Regal Creek Trail #556 reclaimed
It’s been in the works for a while, but Regal Creek Trail #556 in the Lightning Creek drainage north of Clark Fork, Idaho, is “back in the system.” A trail…
Shear Silent Auction
Welcome to the 2011 Summer Silent Auction for Scotchman Peaks! In good local summer fashion, this auction of the painting Bull River (hung at Coldwater Creek Wine Bar on First…
Bissett Silent Auction
Welcome to the 2011 Summer Silent Auction for Scotchman Peaks! In good local summer fashion, the auction of the painting Sam Owen (hung at Trinity at City Beach in Sandpoint)…
Endorsements from Sandpoint Chamber and Rotary Club gained.
Progress in wilderness advocacy is measured on the ground, as it were, at the grass roots, and Idaho and Montana wilderness group Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness finds itself better…
FSPW gains endorsements from Sandpoint Chamber and Sandpoint Rotary
Progress in wilderness advocacy is measured on the ground, as it were, at the grass roots, and Idaho and Montana wilderness group Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness finds itself better…
