The Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness invites you to toast the holidays with us! On the Monday after Thanksgiving, when the family has gone home and the holiday season is…
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Winter Film Fun, then Winter 101
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 —…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
