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Monday, June 30, 2008

Living Museum Pieces

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No, you won't find the animal pictured above roaming around the wilds of Idaho. In fact, you won't find it roaming in the wild anyw...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Wonderful Wood Ducks

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It's not difficult to find baby waterfowl at this time of year: Check out any pond, river, nature preserve or city pond, and you're ...
Friday, June 13, 2008

Adaptive Sports at Silver Creek

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This past Monday some three dozen children with Sun Valley Adaptive Sports were given the chance to enjoy a canoe trip and nature walk at th...
Monday, June 09, 2008

Field of Flax

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Controlling weeds can feel like an uphill battle (quite literally, in steep places like Hells Canyon ). After they've been eliminated, ...
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Saturday, June 07, 2008

Spring Creek Summit held at Silver Creek

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Spring Creek Summit On May 29th and 30th, the Nature Conservancy hosted a di...
Thursday, June 05, 2008

Waiting for Brown Drake

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Photo by Kirk Keogh, first2lastlight . In Samuel Beckett's absurdist play, Waiting for Godot , two characters spend an awful lot of ti...
Friday, May 30, 2008

Curlew Grassland Tour

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Idahoans love their national forest, but most don't know we also have a national grassland: the Curlew National Grassland located in so...
Monday, May 26, 2008

Bat Cave

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For centuries, people responded to bats with superstition, fear and hatred. Upon finding bat caves in North America, many Europeans lined u...
Friday, May 16, 2008

Deer Candy

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It is not uncommon for people to describe sagebrush country as barren, monotonous or empty. And, indeed, sagebrush can look that way when se...
Monday, May 12, 2008

Solid Gold

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There's a particularly good bloom of arrowleaf balsamroot this spring, at least in areas of southern Idaho where the snow has melted. ...
Monday, May 05, 2008

Tilapia in the Snake

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From an aquaculture standpoint, tilapia has much to recommend it: As adults, they're vegetarians, so they require low energy inputs t...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Hells Canyon by Tractor

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The Nature Conservancy's Hells Canyon staff is used to unusual working conditions. This is, after all, a canyon that caused Lewis and C...
Monday, April 21, 2008

Duck Spotting

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All photos courtesy of Tom Grey . Perhaps no birds are more rewarding for the beginning birder to identify and watch than ducks. They'r...
Monday, April 14, 2008

Willows in a (still) Winter Wonderland

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Last year, The Nature Conservancy completed a restoration project on its Flat Ranch Preserve (located 15 miles west of West Yellowstone), t...
Monday, April 07, 2008

Cedar Waxwings

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Spring migration: thousands of snow geese landing in wetlands, sandhill cranes calling overhead, raptors appearing at their spring nesting s...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Spring again (finally!) at Silver Creek Preserve

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How do you know its spring at Silver Creek? Even though it snowed on Saturday and the road was impassible, I knew it was spring. The first r...
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Monday, March 31, 2008

Wild and Scenic Film Festival Comes to Boise

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The Nature Conservancy film Fish and C ow is just one of the offering in Patagonia's Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival, coming...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Sea Lions and Salmon

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Who couldn't love a sea lion? Whether they're lounging around, or engaged in their entertaining antics, sea lions are known crowd p...