Mountain lions, eagles, bobcats, geese and domestic pets have all been accidentally caught -- and killed -- by wolf trappers.
Idaho
From electric fences to special garbage cans, rural communities find new tools to help them coexist with bears.
Wealthy hunters pay top dollar for desired hunts, padding Fish and Game budgets and prodding resistance.
Independent farms need better internet to survive, let alone to compete with the large agriculture industry.
Idaho is updating its standards for water pollutants based on how much fish residents eat.
$1 billion tribal settlement mostly goes to individuals, although tribe-wide investments would have greater benefit.
Lack of planning rules and the housing bubble led to dead subdivisions plaguing the West, especially in Teton County, Idaho, where locals are trying to deal with the impacts of the real estate bust, yet still arguing if planning even works.
Western rural county governments often rely heavily on federal funding.
The great Western wolf debate is as emotional as ever.
Small-town Westerners need to get over the notion that just because they have a grandparent buried nearby they deserve a greater voice in local politics.
Steve Bunk returns to his old hometown of Boise to find he’s not the only one in search of a sanctuary.
Just how bad or good are Idaho's environmental politics? On September 18, High Country News gathered Idaho politicians and environmentalists for a lively exploration of these questions.
Bill Croke celebrates his brand-new, old-fashioned lifestyle: living upstairs in an old brick building in downtown Salmon, Idaho.
In his first book, The Enders Hotel, Brandon R. Schrand
describes a childhood spent growing up in a funky hotel in the
small town of Soda Springs, Idaho.
“Goat Insurance” in Idaho; organic is blooming
in Washington; scary big black rifles are in; don’t shoot the
cleaners; pardon my typo
Jeremias Pink fixes up bikes and gives them away because
he loves his town, Pocatello, Idaho
In Idaho’s Magic Valley, cow capital of the
fourth-largest milk-producing state in the U.S., entrepreneurs are
hoping to cash in on all that manure by using anaerobic digesters
to convert it into energy
Tiny Vilas, Colo., thought it was a great idea to open an
online school and enroll at-risk students from far-away Denver
– but neither the students nor the school district ended up
scoring well at report card time
In Idaho and Wyoming, old eminent domain laws allow
private entities to condemn landowners’ property – as
Peter and Judy Riede discovered when J.R. Simplot Co. announced
plans to expand its phosphate mine and build a road across their
ranch.
An illustrated timeline charts the appearance of dams on
the lower Snake River and the resulting decline of salmon, along
with the so-far-inadequate response of the federal
government.
The escape of 100 domestic elk from self-styled mountain
man Rex Rammell’s Idaho game farm shows up the foolishness of
the state’s permissive attitude toward the industry
Wildfire financial data
Western wildland acres burned
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