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Feature story: Bitterroot Quiet Use Coalition Takes Off
Wildlands CPR is putting extra effort into stopping off-road vehicle abuse and restoring watersheds and landscapes in our home state of Montana. And the benefits are already beginning to surface. A diverse coalition of hikers, horseback riders, hunters, homeowners and other conservationists are taking a stand to conserve clean water, healthy wildlife, and opportunities for folks to enjoy nature. more ...
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News: Wildlands CPR ally: “Feds must live up to commitment to maintain failing logging roads”
“It's high time for the federal government to live up to its commitment to restore and maintain its failing logging roads. Puget Sound restoration, salmon recovery and the health of our rivers will suffer if it does not.” Those are the parting words in this guest column by the director of the Washington Department of Ecology, an ally in coalition efforts to win a $65 million appropriation for forest restoration through road removal. Read the op-ed or read about this campaign at wildlandscpr.org.
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News: Attacker on Dirt Bike Gets Off
Sierra Club organizer Bob Clark was leading a hike when he was assaulted by a dirt biker riding illegally in Recommended Wilderness near the Idaho-Montana border. Despite excellent police work by the Forest Service, the feds didn’t prosecute the case. Instead, an Idaho county issued a warrant for felony aggravated assault but let the repeat offender off the hook with a small fine. Read more in the September 8 edition of the Missoulian. more ...
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Essay: The Wildland/New Urbanist Interface
Wildlands CPR focuses our work on wildlands, not the urban growth and road issues which our founding organization tackled. But now we’ve come full circle, with our restoration program partnering with those working on community revitalization — restoring the natural link between wildlands, watersheds and the built environment. more ...
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Featured Resource: User Conflict Incident Report Form
The “User Conflict Incident Report Form” is a must-have item for every visitor to public lands. The simplest of Wildlands CPR’s monitoring forms, this form prepares and enables citizens to document damage and conflicts caused by off-road vehicles riding where they’re not supposed to be. Please carry a copy of this form every time you visit our public lands. more ...
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Image of the Week: Wolf on removed road in Idaho
A motion-sensitive camera captured this night-time image in April 2007. The wolf was trotting along a removed road on the Powell Ranger District of the Clearwater National Forest. The removed road had been part of a network of logging roads that was removed as part of a watershed restoration initiative led by the Nez Perce Tribe and being studied by Wildlands CPR. more ...
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