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Boise native Jack Hurty has spent the last five years guiding trips on the Lower Salmon River, the Main Salmon and the Middle Fork.

This year has been extraordinary, culminating in our 69th Annual Meeting, Exhibitor Fair, and THAW fundraiser. I’m grateful for your active participation and support.

This year has been extraordinary, culminating in our 69th Annual Meeting, Exhibitor Fair, and THAW fundraiser. I’m grateful for your active participation and support.

If you had hoped to book a trip with an Idaho outfitter, many of them are already booked for the 2023 hunting season, and they’re booking up fast for the 2024 season and reserving dates for 2025.

Idaho horseback outfitters have a perfect solution – they offer “drop-camp” trips in which they carry your heavy camping gear, tent, sleeping bag, clothes, food, pots and pans to a high mountain lake of your choice with a pack string of horses and mules.

Published originally in 2005, the book predicted there would be a huge drop-off in outdoor recreation use in America because children were far more interested in watching TV and playing video games. Studies showed the children spent less than 7 minutes a day outdoors, while they watched TV and played video games for over 7 hours a day.

A recent study by the Wild Salmon Center, together with NOAA Fisheries, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, examined Chinook salmon populations from California to British Columbia. Published in the peer-reviewed journal Fish & Fisheries, the study identifies populations that are declining, stable, and thriving. Within these findings are huge implications for salmon recovery in Idaho and the Snake Basin.

A long, cold winter with above-average mountain snowpack is expected to create an ideal whitewater rafting and jet boating season on Idaho’s world-class rivers statewide.

This week, Boise State University’s School of Public Service released results of its Idaho 2023 Public Policy Survey. This survey’s been around for eight years, and tracks public opinion across the state on a range of issues. The “Environment” component of this year’s survey consisted primarily of two big questions, and we’re most interested in one of them: “In your opinion is it very important, somewhat important, not very important, or not at all important to recover salmon populations in Idaho?”  Results were interesting.  Some of them were very encouraging, others were a little frust...

If you’ve been following some environmental news recently, you’ve probably heard about something monumental happening in southern Oregon/northern California. That is, after a lengthy process of negotiations, four dams on the Klamath River are officially going to be removed. On Thursday, Nov. 17th the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission signed the final transfer of license from the dams’ owner/operator to the newly-formed organization that will oversee their decommission and breaching.  The scale and importance of this project cannot be overstated: it will be the largest dam removal and...

As many of you may already know, the last couple years have brought some big news regarding Idaho’s salmon and steelhead, and the main challenges they contend with for survival and stock recovery.

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