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Partnering Up to Conserve a Watershed from the Headwaters Down
Utah’s Bear River Land Conservancy and Idaho’s Sagebrush Steppe Land Trust each faced an issue well-known to conservation organizations around the Intermountain West: too much work to do and too few people to get it done. On top of that, both organizations recognized the need for a position that could circumvent the conservation barriers presented…
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Hope After Rangeland Fire
Note from the IWJV Coordinator, Dave Smith: The turning of the page into a new year brings an array of human emotions – reflection, gratitude, anticipation, a resolve to improve, and, most of all, hope. In 2021, coming off perhaps the most difficult year in a century, hope exists at so many levels. There is…
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Partnership Shines in Bear River RCPP
An abundance of cold, clean water has drawn people to the banks of the Bear River for millennia. It’s this same cold, clean water that makes the Bear River perfect habitat for native trout like the Bonneville Cutthroat Trout, as well as multiple species of wildlife and migratory birds. This watershed stretches from snowmelt on…
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Community Partnerships in Action: Soda Fire, Idaho/Oregon
Collaboration in Sagebrush Country This story is brought to you by the partnership between the Intermountain West Joint Venture and the Bureau of Land Management as part of a series highlighting local success stories and what made them possible. The Place Soda Fire Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation During the summer of 2015, the Soda Fire burned…
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It Takes a Community: Lemhi Basin Stream Restoration
Article by Lucy Littlejohn (Fish Biologist, BLM Salmon Field Office), Ethan Ellsworth (Wildlife Biologist, BLM Idaho State Office), Dave Hu (Fish Biologist, BLM Washington Office), and Hannah Nikonow (Intermountain West Joint Venture) Snowmelt from the looming Beaverhead and Lemhi Mountains flows into wooded mountain valleys and across open sagebrush flats tilting toward Idaho’s Lemhi River.…
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Long-billed Curlews and Working Lands
By Jay Carlisle and Stephanie Coates, Intermountain Bird Observatory, Boise State University Long-billed Curlews are not an endangered species but, like all migratory, non-game birds, they are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Most western states list curlew as a Species of Greatest Conservation Need, including Idaho’s State Wildlife Action Plan. Reasons for concern…
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Crossing Boundaries
Conifer removal projects in Idaho model successful partnership work across land ownerships. The follow article is contributed by Connor White, a partner biologist with the NRCS-led Sage Grouse Initiative and Pheasants Forever. Due to his cross-boundary work on both private and public lands, his position is supported in part by the Partnering to Conserve Sagebrush…
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Ugly for a Reason: Breaking Up Cheatgrass in the Jarbidge
The following is a two-part story contributed by Don Smurthwaite, Communications Specialist for the Bureau of Land Management. Part I Glen Burkhardt points to a scrawny Russian Olive tree near a gravel road somewhere in the desert of southwestern Idaho. “The only tree in the Jarbidge,” he deadpans. And a quick look around the vista…
