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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Events at Silver Creek thru the Winter!!!

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Silver Creek is wonderful in the winter!! Birding on Snowshoes- hosted by the ERC (please call...
Saturday, December 22, 2007

Silver Creek Visitation in 2007

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Visitor on a nature walk. Looking at insects!! We had a very busy year at Silver Creek Preser...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

End of Year Reflections, and a Holiday Wish

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At the end of the classic holiday movie It's A Wonderful Life , George Bailey is proclaimed "the richest man in town." There ...
Monday, December 17, 2007

Rudolph Versus Bambi

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Rudolph-the-Red-Nosed Reindeer versus Bambi: It sounds like a bad episode of Celebrity Deathmatch, a warped holiday special pitting the worl...
Monday, December 10, 2007

The Untamed Shrew

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Idaho is known for its predatory animals. The state still has all of its original large predators, including wolves, grizzly and black bear...
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Monday, December 03, 2007

Volunteer for Sagebrush Country

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This past Saturday, Governor Butch Otter ( pictured above ) and more than 100 volunteers donned warm clothes, braved chilly temperatures, pi...
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Red Fox

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My friend and fellow outdoor enthusiast Phares Book sent me this great photo of a red fox he took along the Boise River. Red fox are not an...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Gobble Gobble

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Turkeys an endangered species? Such a notion, as millions of us sit down to enjoy our Thanksgiving dinner, seems preposterous. But for the...
Monday, November 19, 2007

Remembering Hal Malde

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The cheerful voice on the other end of the phone asked me to meet him at his vehicle in the parking lot in an hour. "How will I know w...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Silver Creek Silos

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The Silos from Stocker Creek Road The first time I came down to Silver Creek, I was with a frien...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

Far Afield: Brazil's Pantanal, Land of the Jaguar

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I wanted to see a capybara. That was my main hope on a recent trip to the Pantanal. I've always had a strange fascination with capybara...
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Friday, November 02, 2007

To the Cauliflower Cave

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Fellow Conservancy staffer Marilynne Manguba and I recently took a trip to The Nature Conservancy’s Formation Springs Preserve , located ne...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

In the News

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Interesting reading on the Conservancy around the web: Hemingway House : Read the recent Associated Press story on the Conservancy's Hem...
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Saturday, October 20, 2007

Rare Bird Sighting at Silver Creek

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Last Thursday, two volunteers who were out doing the monthly bird count for Idaho Fish and Game at Silver Creek Preserve, saw a white throat...
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Friday, October 19, 2007

Rocky Barker to Keynote Silver Creek Event

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Idaho Statesman environmental reporter Rocky Barker will deliver the keynote address at next week's Watershed Event : A Symposium on Si...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Badger Encounter

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Driving along a dirt road on the Camas Prairie recently, I noticed a squat, muscular creature trotting along a field edge: a badger. Getting...
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Thursday, October 04, 2007

Silver Creek Moose

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On a mid-afternoon canoe float this week, TNC staff and friends were suprised when they came around a tight corner and almost ran into an en...
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Monday, October 01, 2007

Kokanee in Ball Creek

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On a recent trip to Ball Creek Ranch in the heart of the Kootenai Valley in Idaho's Panhandle, I was anticipating seeing many of the sam...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Living at Silver Creek Preserve

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A lot of people ask me what it is like to live on the Silver Creek Preserve. For those of you who have spent any time on the preserve, you k...
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Saturday, September 08, 2007

IDFG proposed changes to Silver Creek fishing regulations

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Dr. Unnasch catches (and releases) a ...
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