Idaho Nature Notes

To provide the best experience possible, we are pleased to announce our blog has moved to nature.org/idahoblog. Follow us there for the latest on natural history, wildlife, and conservation stori...

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by Will Whelan, director of government relations As I write this post, Soda Fire in southwest Idaho is by far the largest wildfire in the nation, and Idahoans from Owyhee County to the Clearwater...

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by Maria Rachal and Alex Jones, Flat Ranch Preserve summer interns On June 5, we arrived for our first day of work as the Flat Ranch’s summer interns. Earlier that week, through the generous su...

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by Lisa Eller, director of communications As we turned another corner along the old coast Highway 1 between our campsite at Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park and Sand Dollar Beach, I looked out admirin...

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by Bob Unnasch director of science During the past several weeks I had the opportunity to take a break and travel some. At the end of May I traveled to the Archipiélago de los Jardines de la Rei...

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by Valerie Connor board liaison/operations assistant  Big, strong, dark and handsome.  I’m standing under a mighty Ponderosa Pine and it is my new favorite tree. The orange-brown colo...

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by Marilynne Manguba Idaho protection specialist   Did you know that most vehicle cruise controls don’t work under 25 mph?   A group of citizen scientists figured this out last s...

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By Ryan Haugo, forest ecologist  and Jon Schwedler, associate director,conservation programs Earlier this winter PBS ran a documentary based on Timothy Egan’s bestselling book “The Big B...

http://idahonaturenotes.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-big-burn-and-mid-seral-bulge.html

By Will Whelan, director of  government relations, Lou Lunte, deputy state director and Robyn Miller, director of conservation programs Scott Reed © Diane Ronayne Normal 0...

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By Bas Hargrove, senior policy representative   “How many birds do you count?” asked Alan Sands, former Nature Conservancy biologist. I scanned the lek, trying not to double count the sa...

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By Sunny Healey, Silver Creek Preserve manager While learning about pollinators, their importance and how we can help them, I thought of what John Muir said: “When we tug at a single thing in n...

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By Marilynne Manguba, protection specialist  The Big Cougar fire grew to over 65,000 acres in western Idaho this summer. The Nature Conservancy’s staff in Idaho anxiously monitored the sta...

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By Bas Hargrove, senior policy representative, The Nature Conservancy in Idaho After election day, the main storyline was the Republican wave that washed over the country. But there was another w...

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By Kennon McClintock, North Idaho field representative Several years ago, The Nature Conservancy purchased 320 acres of forestland at the base of Hall Mountain located in northern Boundary County...

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by Sarah Long, Silver Creek Preserve summer intern Editor's note: Sarah graduated from the University of the South at Sewanee and  was the recipient of the 2011 Raoul Conservation Scholarshi...

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By Susanna Danner, director of protection For the past seven years, I’ve been writing conservation agreements for salmon in the Lemhi River, working from my faraway desk here in Ida...

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Editor's note: This year, Rock Creek Ranch was purchased by the Wood River Land Trust and the Conservancy from the Rinker family. Working with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the ranc...

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Update: On August 1st we learned that a key Senate subcommittee included legislative language to enact the Wildland Disaster Funding Act, as well as language to access the disaster cap on an emer...

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Editor's note: Silver Creek is currently experiencing record low flows, high water temperatures and low dissolved oxygen levels. In an effort to reduce stress on the fishery at the pre...

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by Jordan Reeves, East Idaho conservation manager   As you may recall from earlier blog posts, we’ve been anxiously awaiting the annual late spring arrival of long-b...

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