The Alpine Examiner April 2025 Naturalist Blog Getting to the heart of what matters in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area Love history? Must see sites in the Sawtooths. At the Stanley Museum, the museum crew doesn’t just talk to visitors about the exhibits in the museum. We talk to them about everything ranging from their […]
Planning Ahead After Fires on the Sawtooth National Recreation Area
The Alpine Examiner January 14, 2024 Naturalist Blog Getting to the heart of what matters in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area Planning Ahead After Fires on the Sawtooth National Recreation Area Looking forward to the summer? Did you hear about the wildfires that burned in the area in 2024? Here are some resources to help […]
Take a Dip with the American Dipper!
The Alpine Examiner November 2024 Naturalist Blog Getting to the heart of what matters in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area Take a Dip with the American Dipper! The American Dipper, North America’s only aquatic songbird. Photo credit: “American Dipper – Lou Ann Harris” by Sacajawea Audubon Society is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. My husband and […]
What is a National Recreation Area Anyway?
The Alpine Examiner October 2024 Naturalist Blog Getting to the heart of what matters in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area What is a National Recreation Area Anyway? Photo Credit: SIHA staff Upon driving into Stanley, visitors pass beside a large roadside sign that welcomes them into town, the self-proclaimed gateway to 2.9 million acres of […]
Hot Topic – Fire Education Series Recap
The Alpine Examiner September 29, 2024 Naturalist Blog Getting to the heart of what matters in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area Hot Topic – Fire Education Series Recap This blog is a collection of the different fire education posts SIHA published this summer on our social media. With how fire has affected the SNRA this […]
The Mountains That Made a Governor (Part 2)
The Alpine Examiner September 22, 2024 Naturalist Blog Getting to the heart of what matters in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area The Mountains that Made a Governor: Cecil Andrus and the White Clouds (Part 2) The foremost issue of the 1971 race for Idaho governor had become the proposed ASARCO mine in the White Clouds. […]
The Mountains That Made a Governor (Part 1)
The Alpine Examiner September 15, 2024 Naturalist Blog Getting to the heart of what matters in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area The Mountains that Made a Governor: Cecil Andrus and the White Clouds (Part I) The White Cloud Mountain skyline. Photo Credit: Bureau of Land Management Spanning nearly 91,000 acres, the Cecil D. Andrus White […]
Can You Feel It?
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An Ode to Ground Squirrels
The Alpine Examiner September 1, 2024 Naturalist Blog Getting to the heart of what matters in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area An Ode to Ground Squirrels To them we are the tourists Seasonal neighbors Here for a few months Being loud and noisy Then gone Generations of ground squirrels and chipmunks Alive on this land […]
What a summer it’s been!
The Alpine Examiner July 3, 2024 Naturalist Blog Getting to the heart of what matters in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area What a summer it’s been! Summer 2024 has turned out to be quite a rollercoaster for everyone in the Sawtooths, including for us at the Sawtooth Association. Between a late start at Redfish Visitor […]
