Dear Friends,
Early spring melting continues in the Clearwater Country. Streams and rivers are filling with the winter's meltwaters. Hearty songbirds are singing. Varied thrushes, robins, and red-winged blackbirds among others pierce the still chilly air with their spring songs. Corvids, including crows, magpies, and Clark's nutcrackers are already nest-building, while owls sit comfortably on their completed nests.
Please join us next Tuesday, March 4, 6:00 p.m. here at the FOC office (116 East Third St. above the Shirt Shack) for our "Clearwater Issues" potluck. Bring a dish to pass, your favorite beverage, and an interest in learning about ongoing issues affecting the public wildlands of the Clearwater River watershed, including rare and imperiled species (wolves, lynx, wolverine), off-road vehicle management, roadless area conservation, and the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act.
At 7:00 p.m. we will head over to the 1912 Building to join in the discussion on the recent Hawkins Agreement that would sell the water beneath Moscow to an out-of-state developer hoping to build a shopping center across the state line in Whitman County.
Friends of the Clearwater is one of 11 conservation groups that have filed suit against the US Fish & Wildlife Service to stop the delisting of Northern Rockies wolves. Without any real data on wolves in the Idaho backcountry and with proposals to kill up to 75% of wolves in the Upper Lochsa and aerial gunning in wilderness areas still on the table, delisting now would be a recipe for disaster. Read more below.
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A happy weekend to all!
Will
