Idaho Department of Fish and Game staff removed thousands of illegally introduced goldfish in Hailey’s Heagle Pond last week in an effort to reduce impacts on native fish species in the Big Wood River, the department reported late last week.

This is the fourth part in a series on wolves. The next story will highlight two local ranchers’ perspectives on wolf management and explore long-term coexistence.

Between the Badger Fire near Oakley, the Grouse Fire near Fairfield and the Trap Fire near Stanley, nearly 100,000 acres of the Sawtooth National Forest are burning, but firefighters are making progress. As of Thursday afternoon, the Badger Fire (which damaged the pictured sign), was 49 perc…

The Big Wood River in Ketchum consecutively hit its lowest-ever recorded flows this month between Sept. 1 and Sept. 24, according to U.S. Geological Survey data collected at the gauge site near the Sawtooth National Recreation Headquarters.

The 89,276-acre Badger Fire southwest of Oakley will interfere with deer, elk and pronghorn hunts this fall, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game stated on Wednesday.

Crews made progress over the weekend in their efforts to contain three fires burning on the Sawtooth National Forest.

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality has lifted its air pollution forecast and caution in several counties across south central Idaho, including Blaine, citing improved air quality in the region.

The Twin Falls County Sheriff issued an Emergency Evacuation Order for all residents of the Rock Creek Drainage Area Friday morning as the 35,706-acre Badger Fire near Oakley continues to spread.

Despite many challenges that lie ahead, the Snake River sockeye recovery program got a boost on Wednesday when 26 naturally spawned salmon returned to their birthplace at Pettit Lake after a four-year journey.

Dog lovers in the Wood River Valley be warned: The Environmental Resource Center is taking notice of whether or not you scoop up after your little friend.

Starting next week, Idaho Department of Fish and Game staff will remove all existing fish from Heagle Pond near War Eagle Drive in Hailey in an effort to reduce impacts on native fish species in the Big Wood River.

Elk depredation hunts and departmental control actions this summer have resulted in reduced crop damage in the Magic Valley area, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game reported this week.

More than 39,800 acres in the Sawtooth National Forest have now been consumed by wildfires in September, the majority of those from the Badger Fire 20 miles southwest of Oakley.

A property owner on Hyndman View Drive allegedly drew over 1 million gallons from the East Fork of the Big Wood River last Monday to fill a private pond, causing a 3-mile stretch of the channel to go dry for 27 hours.

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality extended an Air Pollution Forecast Caution Monday afternoon. The caution notifies residents of the South Central Public Health District’s eight counties—Blaine, Camas, Cassia, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka and Twin Falls—of potentially hazar…

The Bald Mountain Stewardship Project has made progress since resuming its tree-thinning work on Baldy in July. The project removes unhealthy tree strands from 920 acres of U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land at the popular Sun Valley ski area. These efforts address forest…

The Badger Fire—located on the Sawtooth National Forest 20 miles southwest of Oakley—had grown to 23,500 acres Tuesday morning, more than quadrupling in size from the 5,500 acres reported Monday afternoon, according to InciWeb, the federal incident management system.

A recently ignited wildfire in the Sawtooth National Forest has burned through more than 5,000 acres of brush and lodgepole pine forest near Badger Mountain south of Bostetter Campground in Oakley, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

As of 9 a.m. Sunday morning, the air quality in the Wood River Valley was rated "unhealthy" on the state Department of Environmental Quality's Air Quality Index.

This is the second part of a multi-part series.

The Blaine County commissioners approved a stream alteration permit application from the Wood River Land Trust on Tuesday, authorizing long-proposed plans to revert a stretch of the Big Wood River within the popular Colorado Gulch Preserve back to its natural state.