BOISE – Idaho came out on the losing end of the recent Columbia River System Operations draft environmental impact statement (dEIS), released by the federal government on February 28.

House Bill 514, which would forever politicize the IDFG Commission, sped through Idaho’s House of Representatives last week clearing its committee hearing and the House floor in a matter of days.

House Bill 514 strips language from the 1938 Initiative (the Sportsman Initiative that created the IDFG Commission), that stipulates no one party may have more than four of the seven commission seats.

Last week for the second annual Camo at the Capitol event, dozens of conservationists with diverse backgrounds gathered at the Idaho Capitol to learn about effective lobbying and to advocate for their issues.

The Bureau of Land Management has released the proposed land use plan to guide management actions across 780,000 acres in Idaho for the next several decades. And with an incredible amount of coordination and input, Idaho sportsmen came out big!

Idaho’s Camo at the Capitol event is in its second year and continues to bring together sportsman and wildlife groups from across the state for a day of advocacy and education.

When you’re a nonprofit with an office of four people doing advocacy work in the outdoors, it’s hard to maintain a brand identity, let alone establish one. Since it was founded, the Idaho Wildlife Federation…

In 1964, Poppy Cummins drove from Bozeman, Montana to Walla Walla, Washington along Highway 12 and fell in love. The Clearwater River and surrounding landscape took his heart and despite the distance over the coming years, the river never left his mind. In 1985…

The River State has always felt like a more fitting moniker for Idaho than The Gem State to me. Maybe it works if you think of the Salmon, Clearwater, Lochsa, Selway, and Snake as gems in the state’s crown, priceless and worthy of our close protection…

In today’s busy world, time is a valuable resource. Not everyone has the extra minutes to read through long documents and submit comments regarding public land management. To those who can relate, we’ve got good news! IWF staff works..

All eyes were on Lewiston last week as IWF participated in the third meeting of Governor Little’s Salmon Workgroup on the same day IDFG suspended all steelhead fishing on the Clearwater River and parts of the Snake River due to severely low...

Idaho’s Fish and Game Commission has voted to close the steelhead season on the Clearwater & Snake Rivers, effective at midnight on September 29th. Included in the closure is the main Clearwater, North Fork Clearwater, South Fork...

Joining IWF as its first remote employee, Lizzy will be amplifying the voices of sportsmen and women in natural resource management discussions in the northern reaches of our state. Lizzy grew up in rural Texas in a family that’s nuts about...

Trapping dates far back into Idaho’s history, long before the days of statehood. Tales of trappers deep in the Gem State’s mountains have captivated audiences young and old for generations. Today, the Idaho Trappers Association, an IWF...