Thank You for Joining Us

We would like to extend a very big thank you to all the supporters and partners that joined us for our state director open houses in Hailey and Boise.

For those of you in other parts of the state, we will be holding open houses in east and north Idaho this summer. Stay tuned for dates and locations!

Fence Work for Wildlife at Crooked Creek

Chris Little, the Conservancy in Idaho's east Idaho field representative, sent the following dispatch from a successful volunteer day at our Crooked Creek project. 

On March 23rd six volunteers and two Conservancy employees traveled to Crooked Creek to (a) help put up fence flags on a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) allotment fence and (b) remove old fence wire on the Conservancy's Bezold Ranch.

 

For the fence flag project, we successfully placed about 1700 flags on 2.25 miles of fencing. The fence divides the North and South Devil’s Gap pastures, which are BLM allotments that the Conservancy has grazing permits on.  The fence runs by Devil’s Gap--a natural geographic bottle neck that funnels moving wildlife, most notably sage-grouse and pronghorn, through a small area.  The fence and the resulting wildlife collisions are a hazard for these and other species; flagging the fence will help to reduce these unwanted collisions, which can injury or death to wildlife.  This area is especially important for lekking sage-grouse and these flags will reduce negative impacts to leks.

 

 

For the second half of the day, we traveled to the Bezold property where the crew worked to removed wire from old, abandoned fence lines that bisect the riparian valley through the center part of the property.  Such fences are a danger for moving wildlife and we intend to remove as much fence as possible to increase the quality of wildlife habitat.  This area is especially important for brood-rearing sage-grouse who seek these riparian areas for protection and forage.  We were able to drop about .75 miles of fence by the end of the day.

--Chris Little

{images by Chris Little and Marilynne Manguba}

Join Us: State Director Open Houses

Join us in welcoming new state director Toni Hardesty to The Nature Conservancy. We have two open houses in April as an opportunity for you to meet Toni, and for Toni to meet you! Come share your stories of Idaho, of conservation, and of your hopes for the future. These informal open houses will be in Hailey and Boise.

Hailey's open house is an after-work meet and greet with refreshments. Boise's open house will be a brown bag luncheon. Bring along your lunch, we will provide drinks and dessert.

For more information on the open houses, please call (208) 788-8988. Registration is not required. We hope to see you there!

Also, read a letter from Toni about her move to the Conservancy.

Don't live near Hailey or Boise? More open houses will be scheduled this summer and will be announced here, on Facebook, and on Twitter.