Clean energy in Idaho: The need, the opportunity, and where wind fits in

The proposed Lava Ridge Wind Project There’s been a lot of talk about wind energy since the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its draft Environmental Impacts Statement (EIS) on …

ICL Legislative Update: Time Out! And (almost) rounding the corner

The House and Senate both took a much needed time out last week. But it wasn’t because they’d been naughty. (They have been). After first entering the Idaho Statehouse as …

An open-pit mine planned upstream of Boise?

Canadian mining company to make another run at exploration for the potential and controversial CuMo Project open-pit mine After water from Grimes Creek splashes out of the high country northwest …

ICL Legislative Update: It’s not as bad as we thought…

It’s worse. Way worse. Not to be a whiner, but the Hits. Just. Keep. Coming.  Last week started off with swift passage of three anti-ESG bills through the House State …

Saving Salmon: “We can do this”

Editor’s Note: This article is authored by Gregg Servheen and originally appeared in multiple regional outlets including the Spokesman-Review, Moscow-Pullman Daily News and Bend Bulletin. Gregg serves on ICL’s Board of …

Q&A with Youth Activist Michel Liao

Michel Liao is the Co-President of Timberline’s Teens Reconnecting to Earth Experiences (TREE) Club. TREE was a recipient of one of the Idaho Conservation League’s Green Backs Mini-grants for the …

IDFG’s New Wolf Plan: Idahoans and Their Wildlife Deserve Better

Through colonization and into our modern era, perhaps no species has elicited more spilled ink and outsized rhetoric than the gray wolf. From the time hunters and trappers of the …

ICL Legislative Update: As the legislature churns

The Idaho legislative session continues to grind on as we enter week #8. Much remains unresolved, and we should be at the halfway point to Sine Die (legislative adjournment). But, …

Forest Service scopes restoration project near McCall to address invasive insects, recreation, and watershed health

I recently went on a cross country ski outing near my home outside McCall, through the forest and up onto the ridge separating the Little Salmon River valley from the …

The blowback against the proposed Lava Ridge Wind project and the forecast for renewable energy projects in Idaho

This overview is the first of a series of blogs about the Lava Ridge Wind Project and renewable energy projects in Idaho. Stay tuned for upcoming blogs on this important …