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…
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.
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…
Plenty of ways to celebrate National Public Lands Day with FSPW
"This land is your land . . . " As September draws to a (currently) beautiful end, FSWP takes note of National Public Lands Day. Saturday, September 25 is a…
Friends of Scotchman Peaks third Annual Plein Air Paint-Out scheduled for September 24-26.
For the third September in a row, painters from around the Northwest will converge on North Idaho and Western Montana for a unique opportunity to capture on canvas the proposed…
Passages: Walkin’ Jim Stoltz has left the planet.
Passages. He made so many. 27,000 miles and still counting, the last time I talked to him at Wild Idaho in Redfish Lake this past May. He came and sang…
Milestone reached: 3,000 Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness.
Rick Dieterich, 3,000th Friend of the Scotchman Peaks Wilderness, has yet to set foot in the proposed wilderness, but he will sometime soon. The retired Thompson Falls teacher says, "There…
Johnny Donovan Memorial Swim benefits FSPW
Each year since 1999, the Donovan family and friends from all around the country have gathered on the shores of Pend Oreille Lake — and jumped in. Then, escorted —…
Further confessions of a former couch potato: To the top of Sawtooth . . . again.
Three of us — and my new dog, Laddie — stood at the top of Sawtooth in the midst of the proposed wilderness last Saturday (August 28th), an internationally flavored…
