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Monday, March 28, 2011

Lava Lake Ranch in late winter

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While on a recent trip to Conservancy partner Lava Lake Land & Livestock , staffer Sara Sheehy captured a few late winter shots. We'...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Sage Grouse Without Sagebrush

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Imagine you just received a burn on your arm—not a serious one, but enough to cause some discomfort. While painful, you’d probably not worry...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Strutting Sage Grouse

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The annual display of sage grouse on their strutting grounds—called leks—is one of the most dramatic wildlife spectacles in Idaho. If you’r...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

Thinking Big

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How do you do effective conservation on 40 million acres of grasslands across a landscape ten times that size? We don’t know for sure yet,...
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Monday, March 07, 2011

Western Idaho Sharptails

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Sage grouse command a lot of attention from conservationists (and we have more posts on sage grouse coming up soon). But there is another ...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

The Expert

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An intrepid explorer, naturalist, and diplomat, Francisco “Perito” Moreno is widely considered the father of conservation in Argentina. Part...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Silver Creek Summer Fun & More

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For 35 years, Silver Creek Preserve has been a conservation success that has only been possible by the support of landowners, guides and ou...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Guanaco Country

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It was a busy first week of work at the Conservancy office in Bariloche, Argentina, capped by a trip to the field last Friday. Gustavo Igle...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Tweet, Tweet

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On this wintery (at least in Boise) Thursday, we have some bird and birding-related links for you to enjoy. But first, a different kind of ...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Condor Conservation

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I’ve seen three Andean condors in my life: two in the Boise zoo and now one of a pair in the Buenos Aires zoo. (I’m not sure where the condo...
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Friday, February 11, 2011

Urban Ecology

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Walking through the Parque 3 de Febrero in Buenos Aires, I came upon an old acquaintance. There it was, by the side of the path in a hardscr...
Monday, February 07, 2011

Review: An Entirely Synthetic Fish

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On Saturday, I hiked up into a rocky gorge with my fly rod, casting in every deep pool I could reach. As with many difficult-to-access stre...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

Trueblood

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Overhead, on the ponds, in every direction: Thousands of ducks and geese, quacking, honking whistling. The mind tries to comprehend the flu...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Redband: Trout of the Desert

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The above video by the Ted Trueblood Chapter of Trout Unlimited provides an excellent introduction to the redband trout of Idaho's high ...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Foot of the Andes

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In two weeks I’ll be embarking on a Nature Conservancy fellowship to Patagonia in Argentina. The Conservancy is doing groundbreaking work wi...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Extinction

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There's a popular saying among conservationist: "Extinction is forever." Which is true, of course. Usually. I well remember r...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Public Lands Foundation Honors Upper Snake River Partnership

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The Upper Snake River Land Conservation Partnership received the Public Lands Foundation’s (PLF) Landscape Stewardship Award and Citation d...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Out of Yellowstone

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Here's a new film on the Conservancy's conservation efforts in the Greater Yellowstone region. We hope you enjoy it.
Thursday, January 06, 2011

Winter Wildlife Chronicles: Bear Underground

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Over the past four years, I've run two marathons and nine half marathons. That involves a pretty significant amount of training time. B...
Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Silver Creek Intern's Report, Part 3

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Note: This is the final part of Silver Creek Preserve intern Dominique Lucio's report on his summer internship with The Nature Conserva...