In the summer of 2022, and again in the fall of 2023, Idaho Conservation League members, volunteers, and staff ventured to Vineyard Lake to pick up trash and learn about …
From its headwaters in eastern Idaho and Wyoming, the upper tributaries of the Snake River boast some of the best fishing on the planet. The situation is much different downriver …
Join the Clean Kilgore Coalition for a free event featuring presentations from the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and Idaho Conservation League about how a toxic open-pit, heap-leach, cyanide gold mine would threaten the …
Idaho has a long and colorful history of mining, but too many of these mines have polluted streams and contaminated landscapes. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 40% of watersheds …
With the spooky season upon us, let’s talk about the invasive species that is threatening to haunt our freshwater ecosystems here in Idaho – quagga mussels. As we have written …
ICL has worked to protect and restore Idaho’s air, water, lands, and wildlife for over 50 years. In each and every of those years, we’ve relied on our members to …
[NOTE: This blog was drafted prior to the Idaho State Department of Agriculture’s September 24, 2024 announcement that quagga mussel DNA has been found in the Snake River. The blog …
Across southern Idaho, an incredible hydrologic feature is shifting, filtering, trickling below the feet of Idahoans every day: the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer (ESPA). This aquifer is responsible for …
