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How Effective Is Fire Suppression? Lessons from Yellowstone 27 Aug 2013 | 01:16 am
One of the often repeated remarks used to explain the large fires we are experiencing around the West is that a hundred years of fire suppression has led to unnatural accumulations of fuels. Yet such...
Looking back. Was 2009 “massacre” of sheep really just another frightened sheep wreck? 26 Aug 2013 | 03:31 am
We now know the true story of the recently deceased 176 sheep near Fogg Hill in Eastern Idaho — frightened into stampede, but not killed by wolves. We have to ask ourselves, have past wolf “massacre ...
Fighters have upper hand saving Hailey, Ketchum, Sun Valley area. Little Queens fire grows. Update 22 Aug 2013 | 10:50 pm
Little Queens fire a new worry- With in incredible 1714 people assigned to fighting the Beaver Creek fire which has slowly grown to 108,000 acres, good progress has been made securing its long east f...
Palisades backcountry wolves chase sheep. Sheep fall on top of each other. 176 suffocate. 21 Aug 2013 | 11:17 pm
Big pile of dead sheep in remote Idaho mountains- While uncommon, this sort of thing has happened before in Eastern Idaho/Western Wyoming. It’s not a pretty picture. One hundred seventy-six sheep l...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service catches it for meddling with the wolf delisting peer review process 20 Aug 2013 | 05:30 am
New York Times and others condemn Agency actions. Wolf delisting temporarily halts- Before a species can be removed from the endangered or threatened species list a panel of qualified scientists (“p...
Wind Drives All Large Blazes 19 Aug 2013 | 12:19 am
As large fires have spread across the West in recent decades, we hear increasing demands to reduce fuels—typically through logging. But logging won’t reduce the large fires we are experiencing because...
Hailey, Ketchum, Sun Valley area to burn in wildfire? update2 17 Aug 2013 | 05:22 am
Beaver Creek Fire descends onto Idaho resorts towns from the west- Talking with Jon Marvel three days ago about the huge Elk Creek and Pony wildfires blazing northeast of Boise, Idaho, he said “Watch...
Do you have some interesting wildlife news? August 16, 2013 edition 16 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
It is time for a new “wildlife news” thread. Please put your news, links and comments below in comments (“Leave a reply”) Here is the link to the old thread now being retired (July 23, 2013). Be...
Cattle Numbers Still Declining 16 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/drovers/markets/us-cattle-inventory-still-declining-219311601.html?ref=601 This reflects what I’ve noticed here in Lemhi County: not just a blip in the 10-year cattle num...
A Garden in Leadore 16 Aug 2013 | 12:19 am
Here’s a zucchini plant growing in the old chicken pen behind our house. We really have no soil here: the house is perched atop many thousands of years of gravel deposits washed down from the Lemhi an...
