June is Great Outdoors Month, a month-long celebration encouraging individuals to explore and enjoy America's public lands, waters, and natural beauty.
Every year, the National Forest Foundation celebrates National Forest Week™, an opportunity to celebrate places, connections, and transformations found in National Forests and Grasslands. During the week of June 9th-15th, you can participate in the National Forest Foundation’s annual Photo Contest, where the grand prize winner will receive an adventure package that includes Southwest airline tickets, a $1,500 RVshare rental credit, and $500 cash to spend on adventures. To participate, scan the QR code below or visit https://www.nationalforests.org/our-forests/national-forest-week and submit your photo celebrating your connection with National Forests by June 15, 2025.
Join us for National Forest trivia night at Lost Grove Brewing on Sunday, June 8th from 4PM to 5PM. This event is open to the public and will include yummy appetizers, education, community, a raffle, and a National Forest-themed trivia night (with prizes!).
Date: Sunday, June 8th
Location: Lost Grove Brewing (La Pointe location): 1026 S La Pointe St, Boise, ID 83706 | (208) 286-2258
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Come celebrate Idaho's incredible public lands with friends, community, and nonprofit organizations in Boise who work to celebrate and support the lands we all love.
National Trails Day is a nationwide celebration of trails every year on the first Saturday of June. This day encourages everyone to get outside and enjoy our nation's trails, whether by hiking, biking, or simply being out in nature. This year, National Trails Day falls on Saturday, June 7, 2025.
In Idaho, there are 10,000 miles of non-motorized trails open to the public for hiking, biking, and horseback riding. To celebrate National Trails Day and help support maintenance of these valuable non-motorized trails, you can purchase a $10 Trails Supporter sticker at Parks and Recreation offices and state parks across Idaho. You can also visit www.visitidaho.org/things-to-do/hiking-backpacking/ to find hiking trails in your area.
Register here!
What to expect:
We will be working on planting native plants, wrapping them in cages for protection, litter and weed removal and other habitat work. Please plan on brining gloves, wearing long pants and closed-toed shoes. Other tools will be provided.
Disclaimer:
The terrain is a little harder to access than some of our other projects. You have to do a short hike down an incline and then the ground can be uneven in areas. We are also near the river so if you bring smaller children this can be a hazard.
Directions and Parking:
There is easy parking. Finding the spot:
One easy way is to use this Google map to "Everwild":
https://maps.app.goo.gl/EuAt5c2bqCCS9pXq7
It's on Warms Springs Ave between East Pet Haven lane and Teresa drive.
Coming from warm springs the parking lot is off to the left hand side. The parking lot overlooks the river with a wood fence.
Public Lands Supporters! Columbia Sportswear in The Village is donating 10% of your total purchases to IBO 9/23-10/1 when you show this graphic at checkout.
Go grab some new some new fall clothes and support IBO and the work we do for Idaho's public lands and outdoors!
We will also be raffling off trekking poles on Saturday, September 23rd!
Idaho Environmental Forum is passionate about all of Idaho's environments and is now taking the time to celebrate our agricultural landscapes. The past few decades have enjoyed a shift in agricultural conservation as we, as a society, must balance our need of food and fiber with the ecological impacts of agriculture. From sheep being used to manage vineyards and regenerative farming for soil health, we'll learn about the practices being used to help make our food systems more sustainable, while benefitting our shared ecosystems.
Agriculture is one of many ways we enact our relationship with our environments, and we are excited to celebrate and learn about the conservation practices that are helping make our environments sustainable!
Thursday, September 14, 2023 1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Sunnyslope Wine Region, Wilder
Transportation & Dinner Included
Registration Deadline: September 4th, or until the bus is at capacity.
Special Notes to Register: We expect this event to fill quickly and have a waitlist. Therefore, we require payment at the time of registration via credit card. Any outstanding balance on your account must be paid in full prior to registration to register.
Cancellation Policy: No cancellations or refunds can be made if your spot cannot be filled.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
1:00 PM:Bus Transport from Boise State
Presentation on bus: AGLAND PRESERVATION
David Anderson, American Farmland Trust
2:00 PM:
Tour 1: FUJISHIN FAMILY CELLARS
Martin Fujishin
3:30 PM:
Tour 2: REGENERATIVE FARMING AT VILLAFANA FARMS
Miguel Villafana
4:30 PM:
Tour 3: GOODING FARMS HOP FARM TOUR
Michelle Gooding
6:00 PM: Dinner
LOCAL FOOD SOURCING WITH HORSEWOOD CATERING
Aaron Horsewood
6:30 PM: Keynote Speaker
Idaho Department of Agriculture
7:30 PM: SOCIAL TIME
8:15 PM: Bus Transport to Boise State
THANK YOU TO THE HARVEST FORUM EVENT PARTNERS!
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING A SPECIAL EVENT PARTNER FOR THE HARVEST FORUM, PLEASE REACH OUT TO IEF AT IEF@IDAHOENVIRONMENTALFORUM.ORG
2023 IEF Harvest Forum
When: 14 Sep 2023 1:00 PM, MDT
Where: Sunnyslope Wine Region, Idaho (transportation included)
Best regards,
Idaho Environmental Forum
Idaho's outdoors and public lands are seeing historic numbers of visitors.
Please Join Skylar Jett, Executive Director for Idaho Business for the Outdoors, and Business leaders to learn more about the role of businesses in saving Idaho's public lands. Skylar will talk about the need for business leading, employee volunteer work and share current research on the outdoor economy in Idaho and nationally.
WHEN: Thursday, September 14th, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
WHERE: Hells Canyon Grand Hotel, Lewiston, ID
RSVP REQUIRED - FREE TO ATTEND, Limited Seats available
We are excited to announce that IBO’s Executive Director, Skylar Jett, will be speaking at High Divide Collaborative Spring Workshop. We will gather in Salmon to learn more about recreation, and community resilience in the High Divide. In addition to some great speakers, we will take a trip to the new Whitewater Wave Park in downtown Salmon, and enjoy good food with good people. Hope you can join us!
April 26: 9:00am-6:00pm
April 27 8:00am-12:00pm
Join the Idaho Environmental Forum and the City of Boise’s Kristin Gnojewski for a stroll along the Greenbelt. Participants are invited to take photos of wildlife, plants, and fungi which can then be uploaded to the iNaturalist app and calculated as part of this year’s 2023 City Nature Challenge. This event is entirely free and water will be provided. Feel free to bring your own snacks!
IBO is excited to announce that we will be joining Shade City Brewfest this year at the Idaho Botanical Garden! This groovy ’70s-inspired, sustainability-driven, beer-filled jamboree was dreamed up by a group of people with two priorities in mind: drinking delicious beer and creating a space to share local, sustainable business practices and ideas. Join us Friday, April 21 from 5-9 pm & Saturday, April 22 from 1-6 pm.
Idaho Business for the Outdoors is excited to announce Part 2 of "Feeding the People and Tending the Land"! We had such a strong interest in another round, that we decided to continue this important conversation on Friday March 3, 2023 from 11:30am - 12:30pm.
For the second part of this Learn Over Lunch topic, we will continue discussing the role farmers and ranchers play in climate change, from planting windbreaks, to sequestering carbon through regenerative practices, to reducing food miles by growing and selling within local markets.
This event will be moderated by Amy Mattias, the Program Director of the Sun Valley Institute. We will be joined by a group of panelists who are innovative ranchers and farmers, who are going above and beyond the status quo to ensure the land, water, and air in which they depend gets regenerated for all.
Our panelists are Wilder Jones from Wild Spaces Farm, Brett Stevenson from Hillside Grain, and Glenn Elzinga from Alderspring Ranch.
Link to Webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89333899578?pwd=NGRQOFF3bkpSZWZaUUp4WGViRDhQZz09
Join in on the discussion to learn the role farmers and ranchers play in climate change, from planting native windbreaks, to sequestering carbon through regenerative practices, to reducing food miles by growing and selling within local markets.
