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The secret is out: The world found the Owyhees. Advocates say it’s time to protect the land

Just southwest of Boise lies one of the last vast swaths of solitude in the United States. The Owyhee Canyonlands, with stunning red gulches, winding rivers and a moon-like landscape where a volcano with a caldera once 600 times larger than Mount St. Helens erupted, stands as the largest unprotected wilderness area in the American West. Locals might have once seen the Owyhees as the area’s ...
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Midstokke: The casualties of domestication

I’m not sure who decided it was a good idea to domesticate cats, though evidence points to the Fertile Crescent population nearly 10,000 years ago. Archeologists recently found a human skeleton buried with a cat skeleton and a few knickknacks, and assumed the two had been fast friends.
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Slopes? Zigzags? Access Recreation aims to offer pros, cons of Clark County parks for differently abled people

May 21—For some people, the simple joy of hiking a trail is anything but simple. One person's carefree dirt path can be another's hazardous obstacle course. That's why Debbie Timmins of Access Recreation, a Portland-based grassroots coalition of recreation and disability-advocacy groups, and Patrick Stark of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service guided a group of local leaders on an exploratory ...
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Winging it

A western kingird leaps off a branch at the Saltese Wetlands on May 11 in this photo by Terry Sanborn.
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Midstokke: Packing purgatory and household limbo

Now that we’ve built a new house, we’re both too tired to move into it. After so many months of time tables and project plans and coordinating subcontractors and budget calculations and late nights and long weekends, we find ourselves in bed early at our rental and refusing to make eye contact. It just takes too much energy.
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Who’s there?

A badger at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge gives a confused look on May 7 as Buck Domitrovich takes a photo.
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Idaho doctor, accomplished outdoorsman, dies in avalanche while skiing Lost River Range

An Idaho emergency physician and adventurous outdoorsman died Friday after being buried in an avalanche while skiing part of the state’s tallest mountain range. Dr. Terrence “Terry” O’Connor, 48, of Ketchum, was skiing on Donaldson Peak in the Lost River Range when he triggered an avalanche at around 11,600 feet elevation. According to the Sawtooth Avalanche Center’s description of the ...
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