 Owyhee - a Model in Collaboration
Where the remote corners of Idaho, Oregon and Nevada come together lies one of the most spectacular high deserts remaining in the United States - a landscape that truly characterizes the American West. The Owyhee - Bruneau Canyonlands region is a special place. Wilderness designation was recently given to 517,000 acres of Idaho's Owyhee Canyonlands and 316 miles of Wild and Scenic Rivers........more
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Letter from the President
Dear Friends and Supporters,
As a writer friend of mine likes to say "when you get into the airplane looking for the wildness of the land you become aware of both time and vast distances". It gives you perspective and, as I so often say, it lets the land speak for itself.......more.
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Thompson Divide-Canyon Country in Colorado
The Thompson Divide is our backyard here in the Roaring Fork Valley that we at EcoFlight call home. The Thompson Divide Coalition is an outstanding example of a grassroots organization that has been formed to secure permanent protection from energy development for the federal lands in the Thompson Divide area. Much of this backcountry west of the Crystal River and north of McClure Pass has already been leased for natural gas drilling.........more.
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McCullough Peaks - Desert Badlands of Wyoming
Rising to just over 6,000 feet, the McCullough Peaks are an area of desert badlands which lie just to the south of Powell and east of Cody, Wyoming. The area is rich in fossils and home to wild horses, sage grouse, antelope, raptors and many other species. At its core lies the McCullough Peaks Wilderness Study Area. The biggest threat facing this area at this time is natural gas development....more.
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Protecting the Wyoming Range
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Students Empowered to become Leaders in Conservation
Flight Across America (FLAA) is an annual event in our Kestrel student program and is designed to engage our youth in the pressing local and environmental issues of our time through aerial observation and education. Our latest chapter educated students in Colorado and Wyoming on the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic that has reduced our local lodge pole and white bark pine forests to ghost forests.......more.
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