Salmon River steelhead, lesser known than salmon, face equally difficult challenges
While the plight of wild salmon is often the subject of great debate and policy fights, the challenges Salmon River [...]
The Western Sage Grouse's curious ritual
In the mind’s eye, what does one see when envisioning the West? Peaks piercing an impossibly blue sky? The icy [...]
The story of Idaho's water and its hold on a growing state
In the West, battles over water tend to get framed in terms of big abstract entities—municipalities, hydropower companies, agricultural conglomerates—wrestling [...]
How Land Use Shaped Idaho and the West
The history of the U.S. government acquiring and subsequently disposing of its lands has had a dramatic effect on how the wide open spaces of the West have been preserved and how we as a people interact with those lands. [...]