The Latest from ICL
Love the Payette River?
Tell the Forest Service to give Banks some love and help make the area even more remarkable and outstanding.
The calm before the storm?
Weakening regulations for pesticide spraying cropdusters, another dam memorial, and a do-over on rules?
Mountain goats in the Blacklead
The U.S. Forest Service is evaluating proposals to allow snow machines to access somewhere between 51,000 to 152,000 acres of public land in the proposed Great Burn Wilderness, which straddles the Idaho-Montana Border north of Lolo Pass.
Public lands and public health at risk
NEPA ensures public involvement and participation regardless of whether you’re talking about a plan that will guide national forest management for 20-30 years or a recreation plan for your favorite trail system.
Action-Packed Week at the Statehouse
Science Standards approved, bird resolution flies ahead, PAPA printed, EVs in reverse, and a commissioner resigns.
Pollution at the Heart of Lake Coeur d'Alene
There are already 75 million tons of toxic mine waste on the lake bottom. If upstream contaminants interact with the existing mine waste, a potential disaster could erupt, threatening the health of local communities, fish and wildlife.
Idaho’s Snake River: The Trout Capital of the USA
As the Snake faces stricter limits on pollution in the river and the groundwater, we look forward to working with Idaho’s aquaculture industry to continue to protect the clean water resources that are so important to all of us.
House Moves to Strip Science Standards (and Math and English/Language Arts)
We're counting on the Senate Education Committee to do the right thing and approve the standards in full.
Don’t Blink
This week several noteworthy public lands-related bills stumbled out of the starting gates and the House Ed Committee took an axe to education standards, but we successfully fended off attacks on Building Codes!