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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

A Hooray for Flat Ranch Volunteers

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A fun way to help the wildlife and nature of your local area is to volunteer at your local nature preserve. There are lists upon lists of p...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Here Come The Deer

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At first, the signs are subtle: A hoof print in your backyard, a small herd of deer moving into the foothills, a solitary animal crossing t...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

Snow Geese Overhead

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For the past several nights, I've heard overhead the sound of geese: Not the familiar Canada geese so common on our golf courses and fa...
Monday, November 03, 2008

The Dragonfly Migration

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Autumn is a time in Idaho when the wonders of migration are everywhere to be seen: Dark-eyed juncos, after spending a winter in Canada, star...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Steelhead in Hells Canyon

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Before reaching their spawning redds in the Upper Salmon River basin, some 900 miles from the Pacific Ocean, wild Chinook salmon and steelh...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Wolverine!

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Photo by Michael Feiger, District Biologist, Idaho City Ranger District, Boise National Forest. Most of us will never see a wolverine in th...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Dogs and Goats: Conservation Allies

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It's no secret that humans are seriously lacking in our sense of smell, but not so our best friends. Anyone who has seen their dog check...
Monday, October 06, 2008

Emus in Idaho...

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It's quite common to see unusual birds at the Conservancy's Ball Creek Ranch Preserve, located near Bonners Ferry in the Idaho Panha...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Mayfly Nation

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If you want to find the most species of wildlife, go to the tropics, a fact well known among conservation biologists for years. Tropical hab...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Watch Some Bighorns

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Anyone traveling near Salmon this fall should stop by the new bighorn sheep viewing station to catch a glimpse of one of Idaho's most tr...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

The Importance of Volunteers

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Every year, many people come from all over the country to volunteer at Silver Creek. We also host maybe other volunteers throughout Idaho a...
Monday, September 08, 2008

The Intern Experience at Silver Creek

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Another Labor day has come and gone and at Silver Creek that usually means the end of an intern season. Every year I try and find interns w...
Friday, August 29, 2008

'Nature' fire at Silver Creek Preserve and beyond

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On Wednesday the 27th, about 3:30 in the afternoon, I received a call from one of the neighbors alerting me to a fire on the Preserve. I was...
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Friday, August 22, 2008

Hemingway Festival

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Next to his writing, Ernest Hemingway is perhaps best known for his connection to place: Key West, Cuba, Pamplona, the green hills of Afric...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Plantings Benefit Sage Grouse and Waterfowl

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In 2001, The Nature Conservancy acquired 2600 private acres that became the Crooked Creek Preserve , located near Dubois. This acquisition ...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Sturgeon

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Photo by Keith Lazelle . They're fish that swam with dinosaurs: The sturgeons, a 250-million-year-old fish family that has demonstrated...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Don't Move Firewood

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It's the height of the camping season in Idaho, and for many of us, one of the joys of being in Idaho's forests is the evening campf...
Monday, July 28, 2008

Summer Willow Planting at Flat Ranch

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In April, Idaho Nature Notes reported on winter willow clippings to help restore these plants along The Nature Conservancy’s Flat Ranch Pres...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Mass of Mayflies

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The brown drake hatch may have been a little late this year , but lucky anglers still experienced quite a show. Silver Creek intern Ryan Ur...
Monday, July 14, 2008

Salmon's Wild Ride

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What happens when a salmon swims into an irrigation diversion? Nothing good. By the time the fish figures out it made a wrong turn in the ...