Features
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Sagebrush is the smell of home
The students got a pleasant surprise when they were asked to rub the sagebrush leaves between their fingers and take a whiff.
“Smells like Boise,” one volunteer said, and this was repeated by the student with a large grin. “Yes, smells like Boise.”
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Saving the 'Grey Ghost'
How the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is Working with a Bi-national Coalition to Save the Southern Mountain Caribou.
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Gravel to Greenery
More than 90 volunteers made quick work of planting 550 shrubs at this City of Boise reserve on April 14 as part of a cooperative project to improve wildlife habitat and decrease fire risk.
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Collaborative conservation pays off for one of Idaho's rarest plant species
For one of the most rare plants in Idaho, a trip to the Emergency Room of conservation - a listing under the Endangered Species Act - was never necessary thanks to proactive and collaborative treatment administered by the Bureau of Land Management and other partners.
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Raptor Rapture: Bird Enthusiasts Play Biologist for a Day
For one day a group of citizen-scientists experienced what it’s like to work as a biologist on the conservation of raptors during a trip to the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in southwest Idaho.
Conservation
Columbia-Pacific Northwest Region Selects New Supervisor for the Idaho Fish and Wildlife Office
BOISE, Idaho – Long-serving natural resource professional, Chris Swanson, has been named State Supervisor for the Idaho Fish and Wildlife Office (IFWO) of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service).
News
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The USFWS Announces Proposed Protections for Whitebark Pine
Whitebark pine trees have been declining drastically during the last few decades, primarily due to an exotic fungal disease called white pine blister rust. On December 1, 2020, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing whitebark pine as a threatened species to aid conservation and recovery of this important tree in the American West.
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The Service is proposing to remove the water howellia from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants
The Service is proposing to remove the water howellia from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants due in large part to conservation actions taken by federal, state and non-governmental partners in the five states where the water howellia is found. The Service is taking public comment on this proposal. The Service announced a 60-day comment period on October 7, 2019 regarding the proposal and the post-delisting monitoring plan. Interested parties can submit comments electronically at http://www.regulations.gov. In the search box, enter docket number FWS–R6–ES–2018–0045, and then click on the “Comment Now!” button.
