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?
The Alpine Examiner September 8, 2024 Naturalist Blog Getting to the heart of what matters in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area Can You Feel It? As night temperatures have dropped, the aspen have started to change from green to gold and orange. Photo credit: SIHA staff A few weeks ago, before the smoke from the […]
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 […]
Sawtooth Tales and Mountain Myths
The Alpine Examiner August 25, 2024 Naturalist Blog Getting to the heart of what matters in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area Sawtooth Tales and Mountain Myths In many stores and ranger stations around the SNRA, you’ll find a copy of Sawtooth Tales by Dick d’Easum. Published in Caldwell in 1977, this paperback shares a collection […]
A Brief History of Schooling in the Stanley Basin.
The Alpine Examiner August 18, 2024 Naturalist Blog Getting to the heart of what matters in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area A Brief History of Schooling in the Stanley Basin Stanley School, circa 1951. Teacher: Mattie Hansen, students left to right: unknown, unknown, Jill Klopfenstein, Nancy Steen, Nancy Fleming, Butch Shaw, unknown, Alan Klopfenstein, Jay […]
