AN OPEN LETTER

Chances are that we know rivers better than anyone else on earth. It is up to us to tell the outside world why they are worth protecting for future generations.

Ben Stookesberry

FRIEND OF THE FEARLESS Dear Regional Forester Leanne Marten, I write out of deep concern for Idaho’s Clearwater River and its tributaries contained in the four million-acre Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forest (NPCW). In the Forest’s revised Management Plan (the Plan), 86% of river miles deemed eligible for Wild and Scenic Act (WSA) designation, including 321 river miles that had enjoyed Wild and Scenic protection since 1987, were eliminated by an arbitrary “suitability study” that values restriction-free resource management and extraction over the protection of the Clearwater River as a connected watershed. The nearly 700 river miles deemed “unsuitable” for WSA protection include most of the tributaries to the Lochsa and Selway and existing protections for North and South Forks of the Clearwater, raising serious concerns about the future…

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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, Spring 2024

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