Camas Creek NWF, USFWS photo by Brent Lawrence   In the past week, we saw the Idaho State Legislature adopt Senate Joint Memorial 104 which requests that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) transfer ownership of the Camas National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) to Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG). Echoing the sentiment of the larger movement to transfer ownership of federal lands to the states, Senate Joint Memorial 104 is short-sighted and casts misplaced blame on the USFWS for what is a larger, ...

  As the Utah lawsuit to seize our public lands rages on, some of our elected officials in Idaho are jumping on Utah’s bandwagon to destroy our public land heritage. In October we saw Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador demonstrate brazen disregard for Idahoan’s love of our wild spaces when he submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court voicing his support of the state of Utah. And last week we saw Valley County Commissioners attempt to insert themselves into the wrong side of this ...