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In January 2008 a contingent of citizens from Idaho testified before the Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Committee.

This story inaccurately describes snowmobilers as outdoor enthusiasts promoting more "access" for themselves and their ecologically devastating hobby. They currently have access to hundreds of miles of trail, while hikers, skiers, backpackers, elk, moose, clean water, and threatened salmon can hardly find a quiet place free from their invasive and exotic use of the landscape.

"Wild and roadless is how these public lands should remain. Some kid in Illinois or Texas or Vermont is counting on us."

Marc Lawrence, Potlatch, Idaho

Guest Opinion: George Wuerthner's On the Range
From NewWest.Net
9-22-07

written by Will Boyd, Education Director, Friends of the Clearwater

Scott Russell, resource adviser for the Rattlesnake Fire and Nez Perce Forest fish biologist, met me at the Elk City Ranger Station late morning August 16. I had followed a Forest Service pickup with two pallets of fire wrap down the grade from smoky Grangeville, Idaho. The air was clear on the South Fork, safe from the wind blown smoke of the Poe Cabin fire south of White Bird and the short-lived Little Canyon fire which flared up and was contained by resourceful farmers.

The coordinated and decades-long effort to privatize the public lands of the United States, nearly a third of the nation, is now bearing fruit. The Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s that sought to transfer power to states and local units, and that provided the Reagan Administration with James Watt as Interior Secretary, morphed into the Wise Use Movement that sprinkled antigovernment grassroots organizations across the nation. Wise Use, in turn, has given rise to so-called "free- market environmentalism" that consists largely of a network of corporations and conservative foundations and think tanks intent on gaining control of the public domain.

LeRoy Lee, hailed as a "giant" by conservationists for his work in exposing the overcutting of federal forests, died Wednesday morning at his home in Santa, Idaho. He was 50 and is believed to have died of a heart attack, friends said.

By Ryan Bentley, Daily News staff writer
Thursday, September, 28th, 2006 - Page Updated at 12:07:17 PM
Latah County commissioners Paul Kimmell, Jack Nelson and Tom Stroschein received a standing ovation Wednesday night after they denied Ralph Naylor Farms LLC’s request for a conditional use permit to mine sand, gravel and clay on its land north of Moscow.