Boulder White Clouds

We look back at the 15 year struggle to protect Idaho's Boulder White Cloud Mountains from development.

There’s a new push in Congress to allow mountain bikers access to wilderness areas.Last week, a house committee approved a measure that would amend the…

During the 1970 gubernatorial race, Democrat Cecil Andrus made saving Castle Peak from mining a key issue in his campaign.The mountain is the highest peak…

A conservative Republican congressman and a prominent environmentalist who put aside their differences to become partners in passing a sweeping Idaho…

A draft management plan for two recently created central Idaho wilderness areas prohibits campfires at high elevations to protect whitebark pine and…

It’s been almost a year since President Obama signed a bill establishing three new Wilderness areas in Idaho’s Boulder-White Cloud Mountains. With the…

We all know the conventional wisdom: If you want to lose weight, you have to exercise more and eat less. Representative Mike Simpson took this advice, and…

Back on August 7th, President Obama signed a bill that turned 275,000 acres of the Boulder-White Cloud Mountains into wilderness.The law creates three…

Conservationists in Idaho continue to celebrate the designation of nearly 300,000 acres of wilderness area in the central part of the state. The U.S.…

A new wilderness in Idaho is one step away.The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a bill protecting 275,000 acres in central Idaho.The U.S. House or…