Are you ready for winter? Well, ready or not, the "bleak season" just fell into Idaho out of the north, pushed by a familiar presence — the Arctic Express —…
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.
The tread is to tread upon — stay on it.
It's not in the Scotchmans, but you can see the proposed wilderness from there —Scotchman itself, and Clayton and Mikes and Star Peak. As you near the top of the…
Foster’s Crossing hosts Scotchman Peaks Paintout show.
Saturday, November 13, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., a reception will be held at Foster's Crossing, 504 Oak in Sandpoint, celebrating the art produced during the 2010 Scotchman Peaks…
Wilderness and climate change
Change. Now, that's a scary word, particularly when the onus to do so is on us, personally. Or when we are facing some that is inevitable. The discussion about climate…
Busy Friends are happy Friends – we’re rolling into winter
Coming up: November 10, 6:00 p.m., we meet up with our Lincoln County Friends at the Venture Inn in Libby for snacks, beverages and a showing of Forever Wild, Robert…
Remember: “a fed goat could be a dead goat.”
In the recent news is a story about a man who died after being gored by a mountain goat in the Olympic National Park in Washington. This tragedy emphasizes something…
Third Annual Scotchman Peaks Paint Out proves artistic success.
Sixty-six paintings submitted. Robert Bissett takes Best of Show Hope, Idaho: Take 17 artists, give them two days and a big beautiful wilderness to paint in and around, and what…
Further confessions for a former couch potato: Wild, Wild Washington, D.C.
On Saturday last, I took a walk into “our” wilderness, clambered into the upper reaches of the East Fork of Blue Creek, looking to sew together some unconnected dots. I…
