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How to Visit and Live Responsibly in Bear Country

April 1, 2024

The Alpine Examiner April 2, 2024 Naturalist Blog Getting to the heart of what matters in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area How to responsibly visit and live in bear country Re-posted from 2019 American black bear, U.S. Forest Service, Public Domain https://www.fws.gov/banner/american-black-bear-adult-usfsjpg “How common are bears around here?” “Any recent bear sightings?” On a daily […]

Fear to Friend: Understanding Bears in the Sawtooths

November 20, 2023

The Alpine Examiner November 20, 2023 Naturalist Blog Getting to the heart of what matters in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area Fear to Friend: Understanding Bears in the Sawtooths The Sawtooth Wilderness is a huge place filled with unknowns. For me, the unknown I discovered was fear. After 300 miles of hiking throughout the Sawtooth […]

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Stanley, ID 83278

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The Sawtooth Interpretive & Historical Association is located in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Agaidika, Dukudeka, and other bands of today’s Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. SIHA also provides services in Ranger Stations on the Salmon-Challis and Caribou-Targhee National Forests, the traditional territory of the Shoshone-Bannock, Eastern Shoshone, Northern Arapaho, Northern Cheyenne, Apsáalooke (Crow), and Oceti Sakowin (Lakota) people. Learn more and read our full land acknowledgement here.